Icarus’s with his wings crafted from wax, soared arogantly to close to the sun.Stephen struggels to regulate his self-image and to texture his words.
Stephen is appealing to Daedalaus the mythological artifer, not his irresponsible father Simon Daedalaus, the ‘pub philospher’. Therefore, disclosing himself as Icarus, the exploratory son, free from the Irish labyrinth; with his wings he ‘swoons’ into the unknown. In accordance with Hugh Kenner ‘Stephen does not become an artist by rejecting church and country. Stephen does not become an artist at all’ (Dyson, p. 147). Mission Church and Country are inextricably linked as a unit therefore in rejecting
Stephen is appealing to Daedalaus the mythological artifer, not his irresponsible father Simon Daedalaus, the ‘pub philospher’. Therefore, disclosing himself as Icarus, the exploratory son, free from the Irish labyrinth; with his wings he ‘swoons’ into the unknown. In accordance with Hugh Kenner ‘Stephen does not become an artist by rejecting church and country. Stephen does not become an artist at all’ (Dyson, p. 147). Mission Church and Country are inextricably linked as a unit therefore in rejecting