... "poem" of the book, as Fisher might assert) that Joyce presents to us, defines the heroic quest that "Stephen Hero" (and/or his latent identity as mythic Daedalus) must undertake. He is, in this instance, bound by a strict commandment from "above" (from the towering grown-ups above ... artistic vision, the product of which is "apology" [see below]) altogether. He is receiving a challenge from a mythical source that speaks to his latent Deadalic identity. If then, by this passage, we are to assume that Stephen is receiving some sort of primal message echoed from artists and artistic/ ... ...

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... which the soul already possesses to the light. The whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, but to bring out the best things that are latent in the soul, and to do so by directing it to the right objects. The problem of education, then, is to give it the right surrounding." -(Plato's Republic, Book vii ... dialogue, the Meno. The theory of Reminiscence which is expounded by Plato, says that our soul has seen in a former life all things which it learns in this world, & are learning is a mere remembrance of that life, which flashes to the mind when some fact of a...

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... the constraints of motherhood. Thus, the only escape is the sea. Edna has an epiphany when she is finally able to enter the ocean and become one with it by learning to swim. She discovers "strange, rare odors abroad" (Chopin 27) such as the smell of "new-plowed earth" (Chopin 27) and the scent of "heavy perfume of a field of white ... , suggesting that it is Edna's time to blossom into a new self. The "blossoms" reoccur later in The Awakening and are used to describe Edna's budding sexuality: "He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's ...

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