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"A young man named Stephen Dedalus is confined by many facets in life such as family, religion and country. The story follows his life as he develops from being a mere ‘creature’ to becoming a ‘creator’. Eventually, Stephen breaks free from the chains that restrain him from expressing himself and decides to leave Ireland and move to Paris to face the ‘reality of experience’ and to create that which had not been created. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an autobiographical novel by James Joyce. The moral, intellectual and artistic development from childhood to becoming a man has been traced in an intriguing manner in this book."