2007-02-08 04:14:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Read the portrait of the artist as a young man and you'll understand the evolution of Joyce through his characters much better...
He was a man trying to become something other than his field of vision allowed for. He was trying to emerge and come out into his life having said something, written something, lived something other than the life of his father, his ancestors and his town...
It is about limitations in life and breaking away from them. I do believe he understood God regardless of his disdain for organized religion and that is the point in the end...
2007-02-09 03:51:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being Irish, he lived between two worlds, as any of his books will attest. Being Irish means to believe in fairies and the Old gods AND to be penultimate Catholics. How do you relegate the two in your head? You drop the newer version...that stole from the original...
2007-02-08 12:21:08 · answer #2 · answered by dorkmobile 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trying to read Finnegan's Wake made him angry and rebellious.
2007-02-08 12:17:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just wisened up
2007-02-08 12:18:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋