LitGeek
04-07-2006, 01:02 AM
Hi,
I am a confused reader trying to make it through A Portratit of the Artist as a Young Man. So far i have read about 44 pages and i am slightly lost and have some symbolism questions and just general questions. So here it goes:
1. Can anybody tell me the Irish history of what is happening during the first part of the book. Who were Parnell and what was happening with the Catholics and their rivals?
2. Stephen Deadalus's name has symbolism (the martyr and the greek mythology man who made the labrynth and was the father of Icharis the boy who flew too close to the sun) what are the symbolisms of the other names...Dante...and his parents Simon and Mary. Do thier names have symbols too?
I guess that is all for now...I am sure that I will have questions later...but hey it is always helpful to understand what you are reading.
Thanks
LitGeek :)
I am a confused reader trying to make it through A Portratit of the Artist as a Young Man. So far i have read about 44 pages and i am slightly lost and have some symbolism questions and just general questions. So here it goes:
1. Can anybody tell me the Irish history of what is happening during the first part of the book. Who were Parnell and what was happening with the Catholics and their rivals?
2. Stephen Deadalus's name has symbolism (the martyr and the greek mythology man who made the labrynth and was the father of Icharis the boy who flew too close to the sun) what are the symbolisms of the other names...Dante...and his parents Simon and Mary. Do thier names have symbols too?
I guess that is all for now...I am sure that I will have questions later...but hey it is always helpful to understand what you are reading.
Thanks
LitGeek :)