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- Title
Out of the Labyrinth: Optimism in A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.
- Authors
Sreekumar, Shilpa
- Abstract
Optimism is a mental attitude or world view that interprets situation and events as being best optimized. The concept is typically extended to include the attitude of hope for future conditions unfolding optimum as well. Philosophers often link the concept of optimism with the name of Wilhelm Leibniz who held that we live in the best of all possible worlds or that God created a physical universe that applies the laws of Physics. This paper analyses the concept of Optimism in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The novel with its protagonist Stephen Dedalus striving to get out of the limitations of Labyrinths is an example of optimistic attitude to life and its progress. James Joyce's artist, Stephen is not a symbol of Everyman representative, but of man apart, defined by his differences from the generality of humankind, at odds with his society.
- Subjects
OPTIMISM; OPTIMISM in literature; ATTITUDE (Psychology); PORTRAIT of the Artist As a Young Nan, A (Book); JOYCE, James, 1882-1941
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 4, p203
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Literary Criticism