Father Dolan

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Father Dolan is a strict, punitive Jesuit priest who serves as an authority figure and antagonist to the young Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce’s novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jesuit priest
fictional character
literary antagonist
appearsIn A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man NERFINISHED
appearsInChapterOf early chapters of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
associatedWithTheme abuse of power
childhood trauma
religious oppression
characterTrait authoritarian
punitive
strict
createdBy James Joyce NERFINISHED
enforcesDisciplineAt Clongowes Wood College NERFINISHED
enforcesDisciplineOn Stephen Dedalus NERFINISHED
genre modernist literature character
languageOfWork English
nationality Irish
notableScene corporal punishment of Stephen Dedalus for alleged idleness
occupation priest
relationToProtagonist disciplinarian of Stephen Dedalus GENERATED
religiousOrder Society of Jesus NERFINISHED
roleInWork antagonist to Stephen Dedalus
setting late 19th-century Ireland
symbolizes institutional cruelty
repressive religious authority
uses pandies as corporal punishment
workCountryOfOrigin Ireland NERFINISHED
workForm novel
workPublicationYear 1916

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