James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

It can be said that throughout his entire novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce does not believe that a lot of his revelations actually came from the spiritual realm, or at least to not be swayed by the divine, especially because being that he does not have any real connections to the Catholic Church, which was his religion as a child. On the other hand, using the sacred to label revelations that are considered to be sacred provided to Stephen Dedalus, James Joyce utilizes the inkling of "epiphany" ("act of given the impression of something" (1) to bring about new illumination to the protagonist of his novel which brings him further away from the cloth and as a result, nearer to his goal of turning into an artist. "The Joycean epiphany still reflected...
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