Ch. 1 of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By: The Wonderfully confusing James Joyce As told by: Mia Manic Drew Martin Gretchen Tietge Laura Newton Amira Manderson Omri Kruvi

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Ch. 1 ofA Portrait of the Artist as a
Young ManBy The Wonderfully confusing James
JoyceAs told by Mia ManicDrew
MartinGretchen TietgeLaura NewtonAmira
Manderson Omri Kruvi
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Summary

• The story begins
• with a father reading
• his son a story. We
• quickly learn that the father is Simon Dedalus
  and his son is Stephen Dedalus, who is our hero.
• We see Stephens life through his mind and
  therefore can experience everything he does from
  sights, to sounds, to smells, and even taste.
  Dont lick the pages though, because you might be
  disappointed.

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...what, you thought that was it?...

• We then meet Stephens Uncle, Charles, and Dante,
  an aunt-type figure, who feels the need to
  instruct Stephen on how to live a life centered
  around religion.
• Its clear from Stephens early observations and
  diction he is still a very young child simply
  trying to figure stuff out.

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• The story jumps to Stephen at his boarding school
  where he is taunted and alienated and is even
  pushed in a ditch and becomes ill.
• In the infirmary he meets
• a pretty nice dude named
• Athy whos the son of a
• Racehorse owner and
• thinks hes The Riddler
• Theres also Brother Michael, who cares for
  people in the infirmary

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• Stephen comes home for Christmas
• and dinner ends up being a huge
• catastrophe with Simon Dedalus
• arguing with Dante about respect for the Church
  and following all the priests orders yadi yadi
  yada
• And finally Mr. Casey, a friend of Mr. Dedalus
  says that if everything revolves around God, he
  basically has no place in Ireland
• She storms out

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• He goes back to school where he is FLOGGED (no
  thats not a Muppet character) unjustly for not
  doing his work, although he had permission
  because his glasses were broken.
• Then he tattle tales on the prefect (ya I
  picture Harry Potter too) who flogged him to the
  rector, where he is insured that it wont happen
  again
• The other kids think hes a hero.
• Woot woot STEE-PHEN!
• (he spells his name with a ph - thats
  righteous

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Sensory Experiences In chapter one, especially
at the beginning, Stephens narration shows his
growing recognition and distinction of all the
sensory experiences around him for
example Sight his hairy-faced father Taste
betty Byrnes lemon platt Sound hearing his
fathers moo-cow story Touch the warm then cold
feeling of peeing in the bed Smell the queer
smelling oil sheet his mother puts on the
bed Through Stephens descriptions and
comparisons of these sensory experiences we are
able to determine his general age as well as his
opinions as the story progresses
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Good Vs. Bad

• Set up in many ways and often included with wet
  and dry imagery, wet is bad and dry is good.

• Good vs. Bad is shown in many ways for example
• By wetting his bed Stephen had done something
  bad which is fixed by the dry oil sheet which
  is then good
• Also, Father Dolan (bad) paralleled by Brother
  Michael (good)
• Wells (bad) vs. Athy (good)

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Hot vs. Cold
Stephen often describes positive events or
affectionate experiences with the word hot or
warm for instance his mothers warm smell, the
nice and warm lights of the castle, and the warm
glow that emerges after getting into his sheets.
Events that Stephen describes as cold,
however, are generally negative experiences such
as being thrown in the cold slimy ditch or the
cold sunlight on the day he wakes up with his
illness. Therefore it seems that the
distinction of hot and cold is often used to
subtly give the reader an idea of Stephens
impression or opinion on a specific person or
event.
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Light vs. Dark
Light symbolizes knowledge, safety During his
unpleasant ball game out in the yard Stephen
remarks The sky was pale and cold but there were
lights in the castle.
Darkness is related to cruelty and
terror After breaking his glasses Stephen sees
things in a dark blur during which time he
encounters the cruel treatment of Father Dolan.
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Implied Tensions Between Catholics and
Protestants

• Stephens proclamation that he will marry
  Eileen, the young protestant girl. Both families
  agree it is an improper statement and that he
  must apologize. Not accepting of
  Catholic/Protestant marriage.

• Argument over Christmas dinner regarding the
  Catholic Church's role in politics and its
  attitude toward the followers of the late Irish
  Nationalist, Charles Stewart Parnell. Dante
  supports church, Casey supports Parnell.

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Perceived Hypocrisy and Betrayal of Catholicism

• In this chapter some events occur that cause
  Stephen to lose faith in the Catholic Church.
• Catholic classmates bully him and push him in
  the cesspool
• Classmate causing him to break his classes
• Father Dolans unjust treated toward Stephen when
  he smacks him with the pandybat

The so-called religious and safe Catholic
environment around him only causes him multiple
injustices.
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Evaluation/ Establishment of Identity

• Stephen starts his first couple days at school
  very awkwardly. He gets pushed in a ditch right
  off the bat and gets tricked into a catch 22
  about kissing his mom. Through these specific
  events he is experiencing the evils of
  adolescence.
• After he gets the hang of things he begins to
  realize how his peers may react to things he
  does for example when Father Dolan pandied him
  he tries to fight back tears for he knows the
  grim fate that would await him had he shown
  emotion. Sadly he does, but redeems himself by
  telling the rector about the injustice he
  suffered, and his peers cheer for him.

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Isolation/Differentness/Weakness

• Stephen within the chapter the reader can tell he
  is a bit different from the rest, perhaps a
  little sheltered. Upon his arrival at school he
  seems innocent and overwhelmed by all his
  classmates taking all their details into
  consideration on how to model himself. In class
  all his peers are working on math problems, as he
  is having trouble and ultimately cannot complete
  the assignment.
• Dedalus wears glasses, and feels weary and goes
  to the infirmary he seems to be a little weaker
  than the rest, less fit to handle the harshness
  of boyhood.

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Beauty/Art/Books/Words

• On his way to the rectors office the corridor
  was lined with portraits of the saints and great
  men of the order Saint Ignatius Loyola, Saint
  Francis Xavier, Lorenzo Ricci, Saint Stanislaus
  Kostka, Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, and John
  Berchmans. With all these grand figures lining
  the walls they seem to represent a standard in
  their religion and expectations of those who
  attend the school to be great figures themselves.

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• YOU GUYS AWAKE?!?!?!

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Symbols

• A bird symbol was used once in the chapter, That
  was a long time ago out on the playgrounds in the
  evening light, creeping from point to point on
  the
• fringe of his line, a heavy bird
• flying low through the grey
• light. (P. 19) But, a reoccurring
• symbol with hot and cold and
• their respective parallel with
• good and bad, or pleasant and
• unsatisfactory.

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The Argument Catholics vs. Irish Nationalists

• During a nice Christmas feast a quarrel breaks
  out amongst Mr. Dedalus and quickly escalates
  when Dante a guest, makes a comment (P.30) which
  continues
• till about (P.33) Dante is a nun
• and Mr. Dedalus is rebelling
• from the Catholic faith blaming
• essentially all the problems of
• Ireland on the faith, yet
• he calls himself a Catholic, it
• was a very confusing argument.

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Charles Stewart Parnell

• One of the most significant figures in 19th
  century in Ireland
• An Irish Protestant landowner
• Founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary
  Party
• Official parliamentary party for Irish
  nationalist
• Objectives were legislative independence for
  Ireland and land reform.
• Set the groundwork for Irish self-government
• Condemned for having an affair with a married
  woman

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Connotation to text

• He is in the book, but not a direct character.
  He is mentioned during discussions of death.
  Also, Mr. Casey and Dante have an argument over
  religion and the importance of Catholicism. Mr.
  Casey mentions Parnell as a glorified figure
  while Dante cannot see past her strong Catholic
  beliefs.

Let him remember too, the language with which
the priest and the priests' pawns broke Parnell's
heart and hounded him into his grave. (Mr. Casey
- 45) 'God and religion before everything!'
Dante cried. 'God and religion before the
world!' (49) 'A traitor to his country,'
replied Dante. 'A traitor, an adulterer. The
priests were right to abandon him. The priests
were always true friends of Ireland.' (49)
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The Fenian Movement (1850s)

• A group of members called the Fenians
• The Fenians wanted Ireland to be independent from
  British rule
• founded by John O'Mahony in 1858
• Named after band of Irish warriors led by Fionn
  mac Cumhaill.

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Connotation to Text

• Also mentioned in the argument between Mr. Casey
  and Dante at the Christmas dinner. Mr. Casey says
  Didn't they denounce the Fenian movement from
  the pulpit and in the confessionbox? (49)

Mr. Casey is arguing that such important Irish
traditions shouldn't be denounced because of
faith.
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Terence Bellew MacManus (1811)

• A radical Irish rebel
• Sentenced to death for high treason for his part
  in the Young Irelander Rebellion
• He escaped and settled in San Francisco in 1852
• He died in poverty around the age of 50

... "I say, whatever part I may have taken in the
struggle for my country's independence, whatever
part I may have acted in my short careerI have
passed some of the happiest days of my life, and
the most prosperous and in no part which I have
taken was I actuated by enmity towards Englishmen
individually, whatever I may have felt of the
injustice of English rule in this island I
therefore say, that it is not because I loved
England less, but because I loved Ireland more,
that I now stand before you".
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Connotation to Text

• Also mentioned in the argument between Dante and
  Mr. Casey. Mr. Casey mentions him by saying
  Didn't they dishounor the ashes of Terence Belew
  MacManus? (49)
• The significance is he was a radical Irish rebel.
  He is again glorifying Irish rebels while Dante
  is dissaproving of them for their sins.

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William Rowan Hamilton (1805)
Ahh 2 2 quaternions

• Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
  who made important contributions
• One of the most important discoveries was
  quaternions
• Used for calculations involving three-dimensional
  rotations, for example 3D computer graphics
  (complex numbers)

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Connotation to Text

• He is mentioned when Stephen is going to the
  rector's room to tell him that Father Dolan had
  pandied him for no legitimate reason.
• He came out on the landing above the entrance
  hall and looked about him. That was where
  Hamilton Rowan had passed and the marks of the
  soldiers' slugs were there. (66)

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Lord Leitrims coachman

• Lord Leitrim, born in England, was a landlord in
  Ireland who cared more about his rights and well
  being then the rights of his tenants. He was
  often considered a harsh dictator and when he was
  murdered in his seventies, alongside his
  coachman, there was no sorrow.
• The connection to the text here is to an Irish
• coachman who was more loyal to his English
• landlord than he was to his Irish compatriots
• who attempted to kill Lord Leitrim. A person
• who is labeled as "Lord Leitrim's coachman"
• would be a lackey, subservient to England and
• having no patriotism for Ireland.

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Michael Davitt

• -Irish revolutionary and land reformer.
• He joined the Fenian movement in 1865
• and was imprisoned three times by the
• English for his revolutionary activities.
• Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell were
• the leading figures in the organization
• of the National Land League in 1879. Influenced
  by the theories of Henry George, Davitt broke
  with Parnell over the question of land
  nationalization. But he remained an important
  Irish leader and was instrumental in bringing the
  Parnell and anti-Parnell factions together in the
  United Irish League.

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Irish Politics compared to American
Government/Society

• -Parnell Charles Parnell was a huge
• figure in Ireland. He lead the Irish
• Parliamentary Party and was big
• on legislative independence for
• Ireland and land reform. His ideas
• are very similar to the ideas our founding
• fathers had when trying to break
• away from British control. We too
• wanted our own legislative power
• and pushed for land reform.

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Catholics vs. Protestants

• More than a religious conflict, this was a feud
  of class and country. If you were Catholic you
  were thought of as a lower class citizen of Irish
  heritage and if you were Protestant you were
  thought of as a rich Englishman who was stifling
  Ireland and its people. This relates draws many
  parallels to Class and Status feuds throughout
  American history. To list a few there was- Red
  Coats vs Blue Coats, Cowboys vs. Indians, and
  Black vs. White.

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Drews Shit

• By, Drew
• with a snippet from Omri
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King Minos

• King Minos was having some problems ruling so he
  prayed to the Greek god of the ocean, Poseidon,
  who sent him a big, white bull out of the ocean.
  He was supposed to sacrifice this bull to
  Poseidon, but tried to trick Poseidon and
  sacrificed a different bull. Poseidon caught on
  and cursed Minoss wife with the urge to make
  lovins with a bull.

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Cows Dont Like To Be Made Lovins To
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King Minoss Wife and the Bull

• King Minos commissioned Daedalus to build a giant
  wooden cow so that his wife could get inside of
  the cow in hopes that the giant bull would make
  lovins to her inside of the cow. The plan works
  and she was impregnated by the bull, and in turn
  gave birth to the Minotaur.

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The Minotaur

• A half man half bull (and you thought your
  awkward stage was bad) who was the whole reason
  for building the giant labyrinth (which youll
  find out about in just a tick), so that he could
  be kept in there and away from society ahhh
  hes alienated perhaps like Stephen
  is just a thought ?
• Although he is eventually killed by the Athenian
  Theseus

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The Labyrinth

• The elaborate maze designed by Daedalus to hold
  the Minotaur. The maze is actually so complex
  its own creator and his son cant escape from
  ithow ingenious

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Daedalus The Great Artificer

• Daedalus was a great inventor who was, as
  mentioned before, commissioned by Minos to build
  the giant wooden cow, and later the Labyrinth to
  contain the Minotaur, Minoss wifes inbred
  offspring. The king didnt want Daedalus to walk
  free knowing that Minoss wife made lovins to
  a bull, so he confined Daedalus to the island of
  Crete.

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The Wings

• Daedalus, genius that he was, asked the guards he
  was held captive by for candles every night so he
  could have light to invent things. He burnt these
  candles so that he could drip the wax onto two
  pair of make-shift wings he fashioned for he and
  his son to use to fly far away from Crete. These
  he completed and the two set off to fly one day.

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Icarus and His Fall
Daedalus, knowing his son was a dumb_at_, warned
Icarus not to fly too high or the sun would melt
the wax in his wings and he would plummet to a
watery grave. SoIcarus starts having some fun
and decides it would be a good idea to do just
that. Thus ends Icaruss poor pitiful life.
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• Sorry, but its Quiz Time.Lets see how much you
  remember

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1. Whats the childish word Stephens father uses to
   describe a farm animal in the story?
2. When Stephen talks about something thats hot,
   what is his feeling towards it?
3. Where does Stephen meet Athy?
4. When does the quarrel about religion take place?
5. What did Parnell set the groundwork for?
6. Which character glorifies MacManus?
7. What feud brings about class status feuds?
8. Before Daedalus builds the Labyrinth, what does
   he build for King Minos?
9. Why does Icarus fall?
10. Why does Stephen talk to the rector?

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people presenting chapter 2you should start
right now