... great distances (eight times that of humans, in fact) and an ability to navigate (as winged creatures) through and across this distance. They soar and to see the to the full parameters of a vast (by human standards) spatial realm. This trope of control over/placement within a great spatial realm (universe, globe, nation, world, etc.), here implied by the symbol of the eagle, recurs throughout Portrait of the Artist(3). To illustrate Stephen's grapplings with ... a compromising contract to which he must submit. Like the poverty-stricken and compromised material world that Stephen Dedalus...

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