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Disgust, Shame, And Guilt In A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man And “The Deadâ€: A Martha Nussbaumian Reading
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Disgust, Shame, And Guilt In A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man And “The Deadâ€: A Martha Nussbaumian Reading
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Abstract
The present research focuses on the role of disgust, shame and guilt in the identity formation of Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Gabriel Conroy in “The Dead†by James Joyce. In both, there is a quest for an independent, and authentic identity through gradual emancipation from the nets of family, religion, nationality, culture, and language and embracing life in total liberation, however, through different paths, leading into different destinations. While Stephen decides to leave the country and pursue his goals somewhere else, Gabriel stays at home and tries to follow a more liberal customized life in his territory. Benefiting Martha Nussbaum’s ideas in Hiding from Humanity, the current study explores the role of shame and guilt, as the controlling tools, in breaking individual’s defense mechanism and selfreliance by imposing the sense of inadequacy and inefficiency to make his/her mind malleabl...
