STUDY QUESTIONS

1. Trace the kinds of voices that Stephen encounters from boyhood to young adulthood.
   
   
2. Describe StephenÂ’s view of art which he develops in chapter five.
   
   
3. How is StephenÂ’s aesthetic theory informed by Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation?
   
   
4. How does StephenÂ’s family life affect his character?
   
   
   
5. Examine StephenÂ’s relationship to girls and women.
   
   
6. Choose one moment of carnivalization and examine how Joyce employs it to dislodge the authority of StephenÂ’s elders.
   
   
7. What does the childÂ’s point of view accomplish for Joyce in the early scenes of the novel? What does that view tell you about the young boyÂ’s society?
   
   
8. Choose one of StephenÂ’s friends and discuss how he influences StephenÂ’s thinking or represents some aspect of StephenÂ’s thinking.
   
   
9. What is StephenÂ’s idea of Irish peasants? How does it relate to his idea of himself as Irish?
   
   
10. How is British imperialism represented in the novel? How is Ireland depicted as a colonized nation? What is StephenÂ’s response to these two?

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