A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - The Powerful Female :: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Powerful Female Character in Portrait of the Artist as a new-fashi unmatchedd Man One of the most powerful nuances of any writing is the dialogue within the story. In literary works, it is all too often that characters live only in the jaded voice of the author and never truly develop as their own, or are non strongly opinionated in a personal manner which contrasts the opinions of the writer. It is also unfortunately true that the women depicted in most male-authored literature do not often sound realistic, or how most women one would communicate to in the course of the day tend to sound. All too often, women are depicted on a lower level of speech than men. For instance, Dickens and Arthur moth miller both apparently subscribed to this notion, as the women in their stories were usually more passive, and not as elaborate as men in their speech, however, James Joyce did not see things in the same light. The most developed female character in Joyces A Portrait of the Artis t as a Young Man, is one who speaks with dignity, passion, and the female tact which is all too often ignored in the characters of women. Joyces Dante Riordans words and thoughts are true to those of literate twentieth speed of light women. Although a ephemeral character in Portrait, Dante Riordan, in a brief amount of time emits an apparently important and mysterious aura, the aura of a woman. Judging from the studies of twentieth century linguists, Joyces brief representation of Dante through speech is nearly flawless. To more lucidly understand this, one must carefully examine some of the instances at which Dante speaks in her conversation with Mr. and Mrs. Dedalus, Charles, and Mr. Casey, and re-examine the arguments she makes. Dante is introduced into the dinner table conversation as a silent character. However, when the mens conversation turns to the misuse of the preachers pulpit, Dante begins her interjections. All too often, women in literature remain linguistically dor mant unless called upon, however, studies conducted in the reality outside the covers of a book have shown that women will interrupt a conversation to contradict a previous speaker, and do so vehemently (Coates, 193). A nice answer for any man calling himself a catholic to give to his priest, (Joyce, 273) states Dante as her prototypal response. At this point, Dante has drawn herself into the conversation.