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ULYSSES
PLOT
This novel takes place on a single day: Thursday, 16t June 1904 that is a special day to Joyce because it was the day of his first date with Nora Barnacle, his future wife
During this day, 3 main characters wake up and have various encounters in Dublin, and go to sleep 18 hours later
The main character is
Leopold Bloom
, a middle aged man who leaves his home at 8 o'clock to buy his breakfast and returns finally at home at 2 of the following morning. During his wanderings, Bloom meets
Stephen Dedalus
who is the protagonist of
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
and he becomes momentarily his adopted son (orphan for only one day) and he's alienated. Finally there's
Molly Bloom
a voluptuous singer who is planning an afternoon of adultery with her music director
Ulysses was published in 1922 in Paris and these nove frew both praise and sharp criticism
THE RELATION TO ODYSSEY
Ulysses is related to Homer's great epic Odyssey and Joyce used Odyssed as a structural frameworkfor his book
Bloom stands for Ulysses and Stephen as Telemachus and Molly as the faithful Penelope
Ulysses is divided into 3 parts and 18 episodes and its chapters are usually called "Telemachaid", "Odyssey" and "Nostos", embodying the three main characters and imitating the three parts of Odyssey.
Also in the novel each chapter is organized around a different hour, a colour, an organ of the body, a sense, a symbol and a narrative technique which is suitable for the main subject of the narration
DUBLIN
Joyce planned each movement of each character on each street as though he were playing chess, so he made the very air of Dublin, the atmsphere, the feeling, the place and so on
He represents the ordinary life in Dublin
THE REPRESENTATION OF HUMAN NATURE
Leopold Bloom
= stands for the whole of mankind, he's everybody and his stream of consciousness things are linked by cause and effect or by being near in space/time
Molly Bloom
= stands for flesh, sensuality and fecundity
Stephen Dedalus
=is pure intellect and embodies every young man seeking maturity and in his stream of consciousness he associates things by resemblance
The
theme
of the novel, implied by the quest or the journey, is moral: human life means suffering but also seeking for the good
A REVOLUTIONARY PROSE
Joyce combined several methods to present a variety of topics
stream of consciousness, cinematic technique, dramatic dialogue (direct interior monologue), juxtaposition of events, questions and answers and no puntuaction
characters' thought are explaind without a cronological order
The language used is rich in puns, parodoxes, images, contrasts, juxtapositions, interruptions, symbols, the range of vocabulary, slang, catchphrases, nicknames, foreign words, literary quotations and allusions to other texts
Joyce adopts a particular language for each character
THE MYTHICAL METHOD
Joyce's Ulysses is a new form of prose based on "the mythical method" so this allowed the author to make a parallel with Odyssey and provided the book with a symbolic meaning