Like any great artist Joyce had radical and shifting thoughts about everything. In an article about A Doll’s House he said that Ibsen had dealt with the most important revolution possible, the relationship between men and women. Concurrently he was saying that Irishwomen were the cause of all moral suicide. The marriage of Socrates and Xanthippe he commended only because it helped Socrates to perfect the art of the dialectic, having to contend with a shrew. Yet he claimed that a man who had not lived daily with a woman was in his opinion incomplete. He cited Jesus, Faust and Hamlet as being lacking for this very reason.
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