چكيده
Today, the significance of education is not impenetrable to anyone. It plays a major role in society and in people’s lives. Education is a great chance for individuals to improve their ability, build capability levels and enlarge their opportunities and choices. It is not only the means to increase human fund and productivity, but it is equally important for providing the process of acquisition, assimilation and communication of information and knowledge. James Joyce’s masterpiece, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story, perhaps the prime example of that genre in English literature. It deals with identity or, more precisely, the way in which identity arises, the events that shape us and make us who we are. These circumstances are more or less the same for everyone. Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of the novel represents an isolated sensitive young man who swings between his private inspiring world that affected by his paradoxical parenting which has distract him. He is confused and searches for true identity. The identity that Stephen’s fate is to become an artist. Hence, the study of “Identity” as the major theme of the novel, needs to consider factors that influence this concept, which is in fact the present thesis’ aim.
