Stephen outdoes Bloom in everything, but not in this. Leopold has nothing of Stephen’s yearnings and aspirations, he doesn’t want anything else, he’s at home. Leopold is a complete person, Stephen Dedalus an incomplete person. Only Stephen can create, for to create is to want everything, to create is to want to come home, and the whole person doesn’t feel that unrest, that urge, those yearnings. Hamlet, like Stephen, is a son and actually no more than that. It is his father’s death that triggers his crisis and his mother’s desertion that keeps it alive. Hamlet has no home. Jesus wasn’t a
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