A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (Transformation in Chapter 4)

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Joyce shows the reader through this part how intense religion becomes for Stephen and how much he is restricted by it, or rather how much he allows it to restrict him. He brings ?each of his senses? under a rigorous discipline' (p.161) and even sat in the ?most uncomfortable positions' (p...
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Joyce makes it clear that Stephen has ?no temptations to sin mortally" (p.162), but also describes how hard it was to control normal human emotions. This is the first indication that Stephen has trouble coping with his extreme piety. It is evident that it is near impossible for any human being to keep up with such a lifestyle as his confession sessions become ?a channel for the escape of scrupulous and unrepented[sic] imperfections' (p...
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