Scarica Ulysses features and passage "Bloom's train of thought" e più Dispense in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Ulysses It has not a real plot. Is designed as a detailed account of ordinary life on an ordinary Dublin day. The story is set on June 16 1904, the day that Joyce’s wife (Nora Barnacle) made her love clear to him. The story revolves around three characters: Leopold Bloom, an alienated man Stephen Daedalus and Molly, Bloom’s wife. Joyce sed the Odyssey as a structural framework for his book, arranging his characters and events around Homer’s heroic model. The theme of the novel is the moral: human life means suffering, failing but also struggling to rise and seek the good. The novelty of this novel is the technique, he used: the stream of consciousness technique, an attempt of reproducing what happens in our mind; the collage technique, and the direct interior monologue. Bloom's train of thought Bloom stands before the window of an optician, uncertain if he ought to drop into old Harris's and have a chat with young Sinclair. Considering that Sinclair is probably at his lunch he looks again at the shop window, thinking he must get his old glasses set right. They are good German lenses, he thinks; Germans are excellent traders; they are making their way everywhere they sell on easy terms to capture trade. Instead of buying a new pair of glasses, Bloom thinks that he might chance on a pair in the railway lost property office, where people leave behind an incredible number of things. As to his glasses, Bloom now wants to test them by looking at a little watch on the roof of the bank, but he can't stand the sunlight, even though he holds up his right hand at arm’ length towards the sun. He wishes he had his black glasses . With them and with field glasses he might even be able to see those sunspots ; people say they are the result of terrific explosions on the sun's surface; they even say there will be a total eclipse this year, probably in autumn. Stands before a window of an optician. He’s starts thinking: 1. He must get his old glasses set right 2. Germans lens → they are excellent traders 3. Instead of buying new glasses → maybe he could find one pair in the railway lost property office → people left tons of things → episode of farmer0s daughter’s bag He test his glasses by looking at a little watch on the bank, but he can’t stand the sunlight 4. He wishes he had his black glasses → maybe with them he could see the sunspots → rumours says that they are result of terrific explosion on the sun’s surface and that probably in autumn there will be a total eclipse. In this passage the flock of thoughts follows the ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS (if I don’t remember wrong is Sterne) Mr Bloom Stephen Dedalus Mrs Bloom The trip Odyssey Ulysses Telemachus Penelope Reality Rappresent Is everybody Pure intellect, seeking maturity Flesh, sensual nature and fecundity Morality and metaphoric di 26 32
