Ulysses

Ulysses

Interior Monologue
1. = instrument used to translate mental activity in words
Names and Meanings
1. Stephen Dedalus
  1. name of the firts christian martyr
  2. wants to convert the Irish to the cult of beauty (Greeks)
2. Leopold Bloom
  1. wanders around Dublin like Ulysses in the Mediterranian
3. Molly Bloom
  1. at home like Penelope
JUNE 16, 1904 the day, the whole story takes place
1. two levels of narration = external and internal
2. lakck of chronological order and punctuation and abscense of dialogs
3. immediacy
4. is also the day Joyce meets Nora and maybe his epiphany
3 PARTS
1. First part = centred on Dedalus, alter ego of Joyce
2. Second part = dominated by Leopold Bloom
3. Third part = dominated by Molly, Leopold's wife
has no real plot
1. just lives of ordinary people
  1. but every single moment matters
censured for obscenity in America and England and not published until the mid -30's and was first publicated in instalments
Similaraties with Homer's Odyssey
1. epic model
  1. used to stress the lack of heroism, love, ideas and trust in the modern world
  2. 24 hours day = 24 books of Odyssey
  3. 18 episodes = 18 incdents Ulysses had
2. man's journey through life
3. Dedalus: homeless and fatherless like Ulysses's son and he meets Leopold who becomes symbolically his father
4. Penelope wanders through Greece
  1. Molly wanders through Dublin
Molly's Monologue or chapter 18
1. divided into eight long unpunctuated sentences, for a total of 30,000 words
2. acceptance of life’s multifariousness
3. Molly's thoughts, need and desires
  1. typical of the more liberated figure living in Paris
4. unfaithful to her husband
  1. importance of physical experiences

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