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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man chapter 1

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man chapter 1. James Joyce. Chapter One reviewed…. Stephen fetus-like… Explores the world of the senses. Auditory-------------------. Irish nursery rhymes, songs, stories, and other folklore Clapping Arguments Prayers Riddles Cheering

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man chapter 1

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  1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manchapter 1 James Joyce

  2. Chapter One reviewed…. Stephen fetus-like… Explores the world of the senses

  3. Auditory------------------- • Irish nursery rhymes, songs, stories, and other folklore • Clapping • Arguments • Prayers • Riddles • Cheering • Cricket bats • Water (“suck”… …”pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.” • Soft grey SILENCE

  4. Visual---------------------- • Moocow • Soft grey air / “grey light…” • Colors… grey, maroon, red, white, yellow…. • Yellow candles, yellow curtains… • Scarlet with shame… • Flowers (roses) • Flight (birds) • “Like rats in a sewer” • Scrimmage… “boots” and “legs” • “She had put her hands into his pockets...” • “Darkly lit” castle • “The fellows seemed to him to have grown smaller…” • “The fire rose and fell on the wall” • Someone had drawn a fetus on the desk…

  5. Tactile--------------------- • Dirty ditches… • Smugging in the square • Kissing his mother • Hot and cold… “cold and damp…”, the “hot, weak tea…” • Wet and dry • Cold and slimy water… “cold slime” • “The sky was pale and cold…”

  6. Olfactory------------------smell • His father… His mother • The fields • Wetting the bed (“that had a queer smell”) • “Cold night smell”, • “holy smell”, “smell of the old • peasants”… • “Smell was a sin too…. • The smell of the wine”

  7. Ch.1: Worthy of contemplation & discussion… • Joyce’s Contrasts / Opposing images/ideas… • Innocence --- Knowledge ….. Others? • Trembling… • “Blinded by fear…” (ignorance to knowledge? Allegory of the Cave?) • Fire = water = voices, therefore voices = fire • He develops a sense of the world around him. • “But he could not go…It was impossible… he could not…” • Epiphany about people and self….. • Chapter ends on an equilibrium. STASIS. Silence. • Stephen’s conception of boyhood ends when he has to face the rector.

  8. SINS?.... • Smell of the wine… “smell was a sin too…” • “Lazy little schemer” (SLOTH) • “He was happy and free: but he would not be anyway proud with Father Dolan. He would be very quiet and obedient: and he wished that he could do something kind for him to show him that he was not proud.” (HUBRIS) Where is this leading for Chapter Two?

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