, institutional and religious nature. The thematic aspects of the novel conclude by stating that the artist should be free from any shaping forces outside himself. To become a mature individual, one needs to reject everything. The artist believes in the absolute autonomy of the aesthetic and in this we can find the similarities between Joyce's own sense of significance and Stephen's ideas.
             Stephen is detached through frustration, not through cool judgement and throughout the novel he finds himself in a process of shaping up a passionately involved attitude, which is alien to the coolness and aloofness towards which the novel aspires. Despite the basic inconsistencies of Stephen's persona
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