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This novel breaks with Freytag's tradition of introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and denouement. Joyce creates a continually rising action and ends each of the first four chapters with a "epiphany." Look up this word in a dictionary and in a literary terms dictionary and apply the definitions to this novel. In each epiphany here Stephen gains some insight into himself, but by the beginning of the next chapter he has become disillusioned and rejects the preceding epiphany.
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Through the chapters consider discovery and rejection of these epiphanies: 1. Justice of the Rector 2. Idealization of Sin 3. Idealization of Religion 4. Aesthetic Beauty through Emotion 5. Aesthetic Truth through Intellect

Myth How does the story of Icarus and Dedelaus impact this story? How is the labyrinth an archetypal symbol? How is Stephen's entrapment like that of Dedelaus and Icarus? Consider these roles: intellect craftsmanship labyrinths wings transcendence through creativity

Rebellion What is the relationship between rebellion and growth and development?