Essay on Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man and The Wall

The mechanic in Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man and knock Floyds The Wall Foragers, the people who live in hunter-gatherer societies, have no artisans. It is only when edict requires complex enough to jump a division of labor do artists emerge-first as shamans, then as the painters, singers, writers, etc., that we usually think of today. Society, then, creates the artist, but it can also destroy him. In A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man, mob Joyce describes the particular development of Stephan Dedalus that led to his proper an artist. Pinks development in Pink Floyds The Wall, mirrors that of Stephen yet concludes in the destruction of the artist. An important similarity between them is their isolation. Joyce believed that the insularity from alliance is important for an artist in order to see society clearly. Common people are easily swayed by authority figures, as Dante and former(a) Irish Catholics are against Parnell by the churchs condemnation, or by other trendy movements such as the peace testimonial, all of which are jilted by Stephen in the end. When Stephen in his discourse on beauty describes the basket, he says your mind first of all separates the basket from the rest of the visible creation which is not the basket. The first phase of apprehension is a bounding line careworn about the object to be pecked (212). Thus, by extension, if an artist is to apprehend the society, a line must be bound around society separating the artist from it in order to view it it is difficult in a maze of hedges to comprehend the pattern, but when viewed from above the paths in and out become clear. The artist must stand outside the changeable mindset of the honest human being in orde... ...at make up the crowd or the eerie, bulbous faces on the train. Stephen fulfils his role as an artist by becoming a sort of teacher-shaman as he gives his discourses on esthetics to kill and prepares to depart into the world, like some wanderi ng monk or sage. name from society he is able to search out and convey the truth of society. Pinks isolation, however, utterly destroys him. Unable to endure, the wall is torn down by the beetle of conformity and Pink becomes the very personification of repressive society. If the role of the artist is to objectively show society the truth of itself, then Pink emerges an artwork in himself, an accurate mirror of the forces that shaped him. Works Cited Joyce, James. A Portriat of the Artist as a Young Man. New York Penguin Books, 1976. Pink Floyd. The Wall. Sony Wonder Studios, 1982.