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This 3 page paper talks about James Joyce and Martha Graham. Their beliefs & goals in society. It points out how very similar they both are. 3 sources are cited.
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they believe that the primary goal of the artist is to be instructive, someone who through the use of their art can lead their audience or readership to a fuller
understanding of the human condition. According to Graham, dance has held an ageless magic "for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living"
(Leabo 32). This is because the instrument through which "the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is live!d...the human body" (Leabo 32). Similarly, James Joyce in Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man said?through the medium of his protagonist Stephen Dedalus as he prepared to leave Ireland--"I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality
of experience, and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race" (253). Therefore, the role of the artist to society is to share the
insight of his or her genius. But, what of the obligation of society to the artist? It has long been acknowledged that the people who are blessed with extraordinary talent
have a great deal to offer society. However, artists need compensation for their work in order to survive. Until the early nineteenth century, about the time of the life
of Beethoven, artists needed the patron to support them in order to have the freedom to pursue their art. When Prince Lichnowsky, during the Napoleonic invasion, insisted that Beethoven play
for some French! officers, Beethoven refused and stormed out of the palace, saying, "Prince, what you are, you are through the accident of birth. What I am, I am through
my own efforts. There have been many princes...but there is only one Beethoven" (219). To a certain extent, it can be argued that the artist, as well as requiring
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