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3 pages in length. The relationships between and among religion, politics, family and writing within the literary boundaries of James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" are wholly interconnected throughout the entire story. Stephen is no more able to abandon the oppressive hand of religion than he is can walk away from his family, inasmuch as the two entities are represented as single being. Clearly, the political ramifications of the author's writing twist together with issues of family and religion in order to comprise both the underlying and obvious social connotations. No additional sources cited.
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Man are wholly interconnected throughout the entire story. Stephen is no more able to abandon the oppressive hand of religion than he is can walk away from his family,
inasmuch as the two entities are represented as single being. Clearly, the political ramifications of the authors writing twist together with issues of family and religion in order to
comprise both the underlying and obvious social connotations. "It was towards the close of his first term in the college when he was in number six. His sensitive
nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivined and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin.
He had emerged from a two years spell of revery to find himself in the midst of a new scene, every event and figure of which affected him intimately,
disheartened him or allured and, whether alluring or disheartening, filled him always with unrest and bitter thoughts. All the leisure which his school life left him was passed in
the company of subversive writers whose jibes and violence of speech set up a ferment in his brain before they passed out of it into his crude writings" (Joyce Chapter
2). Stephens reactions to the sermons preached at his Jesuit Belvedere College retreat, as well as his confessional regarding his own amending
of his life, are eye opening for him. Stephen comes to realize that he is only experiencing human emotions in his sexual desires and that he is not doomed
to burn in hell for these most basic of all human desires. When he walks past a statue of the Virgin Mary in his parents house, Stephen is strangely
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