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14′”x11″

This is the finale of my nautical sketch, “Self-empowerment”. Freedom from entrapment is the recurring theme in James Joyce’s novels. Some of us spend the whole life searching for freedom, but sometimes it is quite hard for one to feel any true sense of independence. A complete freedom can itself be alienating from the outside world at times, like my depressed brother. If freedom itself can be confining, then what exactly does it mean to be free? Perhaps the clue is in the title.