Which modernist idea does this excerpt from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man most closely reflect?. . \"I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.\"

the modernist idea from the excerpt is : the rebellion against traditional values

Rather than choose to obey all the things that the current society tell him to do, he choose to believe what he wanted to believe and fight for its purpose

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adioabiola adioabiola · Answer 2 · 2022-05-11T11:10:26+02:00

The modernist idea portrayed in the excerpt by the portrait is; the rebellion against tradition and convention.

What is the modernist idea portrayed in the excerpt?

Modernism as a concept was essentially based on a utopian vision of human life and society and a belief in progress, or moving forward. It assumed that certain ultimate universal principles or truths such as those formulated by religion or science could be used to understand or explain reality.

On this note, it follows from the excerpt that the idea portrayed is; the rebellion against tradition and convention.