Ulysses by James Joyce: A Modernist Exploration of Consciousness and the Anti-Hero, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Ulysses by James Joyce: A Modernist Exploration of Consciousness and the Anti-Hero e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE ULYSSES All the modernist techniques are applied in the Ulysses. It tell the story of a typical day of a common man, Leopold Bloom, who gets up, walks around Dublin, meets some people such and finally he goes home to his wife Molly (was unfaithful). Bloom’s wonderings are similar to the travel of Ulysses in Homer’s Odyssey. • The modern anti-hero  This work is similar to the Odyssey for the events and for the characters. Joyce shows how the problems of the classical word are the same of the modern man. The difference is that the common man is imperfect, he isn’t a hero and he can’t rely on Gods to help him. • An odyssey in the consciousness  The various odysseys of Bloom, Stephen and Molly are voyages through the internal sea of their own consciousness. Firstly, this interior monologue employs incomplete sentences (since people often leave one thought unfinished to go on to another). Then, there is no syntax, no grammar and slips of tongue. Thoughts are only connected by free association of idea and no one idea is important. • The famous last chapter of the novel, in which we follow the stream of consciousness of Molly Bloom as she lies in bed, Character Eveline  passive, influenced by her family’s mentality Her father  a violent and strict man Frank  a very kind, open-hearted and brave boy Antithesis between Eveline’s house and her new one in Buenos Aires  Paralysis/Escape Structure and style  The story opens in medias res  Third-person narrator but Eveline’s point of view  Subjective perception of time  Epiphany  a street organ which reminds Eveline of the promise she made to her dying mother  Symbolic words dust = decay, paralysis sea = action, escape  Themes: paralysis and the failure to find a way out of it, sad and difficult adolescence 1. Teenage love  The story opens as she weighs the pros and cons of her future life as the wife of a sailor in Argentina. Through her eyes we meet her lover, Frank, a romantic and sweet partner. Eveline’s father considers sailors unreliable. Eveline herself doesn’t show such deep feelings for him but only identifies Frank with new opportunities in a faraway land. Her love story may be a childish dream  recalls Joyce’s proposal to his young future wife Nora: unlike Eveline, she accepted to run away with him and they moved abroad together. 2. Family  Joyce introduces another traditional institution which keeps Dubliners from changing. The family. Its central role in everyday life, its tendency to repeat the same relationships, generation after generation, is embodied in Eveline’s mother (who might EVELINE