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June 15, 2020 • 00:21 am 30 points
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Who is the protagonist of the finnegan's wake

who is the protagonist of the Finnegan's Wake

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    Deb dulal halder Halder Best Answer

    Finnegans Wake doesn't have any characters in a novelistic sense. Figures keep merging and blending into others. Adaline Glasheen calls her overview of the book's figures, "Who Is Who When Everybody Is Somebody Else." There is a basic configuration, though, that involves a nuclear family of husband, wife, twin sons, and daughter. At a level closest to something that might be called "real," the husband/father is called Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker (HCE), the wife/mother is Anna Livia Plurabelle (ALP), the twin sons are Shem and Shaun, and the daughter is Issy. HCE owns and runs a pub in the Dublin suburb of Chapelizod. ALP supports her husband and raises the children. Shem and Shaun are utter opposites. Shem  is the writer, the discoverer of secrets, the private person, the disreputable conveyor of hidden information. Shaun is the deliverer of the writings, the public person who is horrified at everything Shem is. The brothers are constantly at war, but they need to merge to become successors to their father. Often they are at war over Issy, their younger sister. Issy is sometimes a whole person, but sometimes she divides into 7 (the colors of the rainbow) and sometimes into 28 (the phases of the moon's cycle).

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    Deb dulal halder Halder best-answer

    Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and Here Comes Everybody and Haveth Children Everywhere or in short HCE. Finnegan is another important character though he dies early in the novel

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