‘When the soul of a man is born in this country, there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight.
You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets [ie, fly past them, escape them].’ James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Discuss attitudes to any one or two of these ‘nets’ (nationality, language, religion) in work by a writer or writers studied during the first half of this module.
