![]() ![]() In Chapter Seven, Stephen and Bloom (father and son, or Odysseus and Telemachus) meet in the newspaper office for the first time in the novel, although each knows who the other is. This theme and anti-Semitism, tactlessly arise in various conversations, with Bloom the target. ![]() In Chapter Six, Bloom and his fellow mourners travel to the cemetery for the burial of Paddy Dignam, which evokes from Bloom a wealth of meditations on birth, death, and human frailty, including his reminiscences on Rudy, his own dead son, and his father, a suicide. In Chapter Five, Bloom walks through the streets of Dublin and performs several errands. ![]() Bloom's wanderings become the major part of the novel. He goes out into the world like Odysseus in The Odyssey. The jingling springs of the bed upstairs show that his wife Molly is awake. He is preparing breakfast for himself and his wife (and his cat) before departing for Paddy Dignam's funeral. ![]() In Chapter Four, Leopold Bloom is at his and Molly's home at 7 Eccles Street in the northwest quadrant of Dublin. His and Stephen's paths cross but they have no meaningful meeting until later on. The next twelve chapters take the reader on Leopold Bloom's Odyssey (the wanderings of Ulysses). In Chapter Three, Stephen walks along the seafront and reflects upon the things he sees - midwives, cockle-pickers, boulders, a dog, the body of a dog, "seaspawn and seawrack." While the class recites Milton's Lycidas, he broods about his life so far, his ambitions to be a great writer, and his doubts. In Chapter Two, Stephen is teaching in a boys' school. In Chapter One, Stephen, Mulligan, and Haines prepare for the day. The first three episodes of Ulysses focus on Stephen Dedalus, a problematically autobiographical character first introduced in Joyce's published work through A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Deasey is a repository of misinformation. In addition to being anti-Semitic, anti-feminist, and wildly pro-British, Mr. Deasey, headmaster of the school where he teaches. In the novel, Stephen is shown in conversation with Mr. Chapters Two and Three of The Odyssey show Telemachus meeting Nestor, an old windbag of a counselor to his father. In The Odyssey, Telemachus, son of Ulysses, King of Ithaca, is persuaded to venture out in search of his long-absent father. Those familiar with The Odyssey will be amused by the parallels between Mulligan and Haines and the suitors of Penelope. It shows Stephen getting up and leaving for work. For instance, Chapter One in Ulysses, referred to as "Telemachus" by Joyce, establishes the link to come between Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom. Incidents in the novel have counterparts in the Homeric epic, sometimes to a broadly farcical effect, other times to a more punning or humorous effect, and still others to fit Joyce's own sense of social or political irony. In The Odyssey, Ulysses is seen returning to his wife, that symbol of womanly and cultural virtue, Penelope in the novel, Joyce uses irony to represent Penelope as Molly Bloom, who that very afternoon had an adulterous encounter with her lover, Blazes Boylan. The other main character, Leopold Bloom, may be seen as the wandering Ulysses. Not only does Stephen Dedalus become all the more vivid because of his comparison to Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in the Homeric epic. When taken in context with James Joyce's grander design for it (a playful comparison to Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey), Ulysses gains complexity, irony, and dramatic intensity. It is written in a number of differing literary styles, ranging from internal monologue to first-person speculation to question-and-answer from a catechism to newspaper headlines. Ulysses stands as an inventive, multiple-point-of-view (there are eighteen) vision of daily events, personal attitudes, cultural and political sentiments, and observations of the human condition. During the sixteen hours of narrative time, the characters move through their day in Dublin, interacting with a stunning variety of individuals, most of whom are fictional but some of whom represent actual people. The narrative ends some twenty-four hours later, when Stephen, having politely refused lodgings at the home of two other principal characters, Leopold and Molly Bloom, discovers he is no longer welcome to stay with Mulligan and Haines. on Thursday, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland, when one of its major participants, young Stephen Dedalus, awakens and interacts with his two housemates, the egotistical medical student, Buck Mulligan, and the overly reserved English student, Haines. ![]()
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