Ulysses, by James Joyce
Initial reactions to the novel Ulysses, by James Joyce were that this book parallels itself with Homer's Odyssey. I initially thought that the idea of a "day in the life of" book would be interesting to read as well. In almost every novel you are able to get inside the head of the main characters and are able to feel their emotions at the moments they are feeling them and are able to experience what they experience but very rarely does a novel take you through every aspect of a human beings day and initially that is what I though this novel would be about. Statements that intrigued me from the novel were, "A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." I liked this quote because it is very true to life. Everyone makes mistakes, but it is these mistakes, which we learn from, and what enable us to grow into the people we are. What attracted me to this novel was that it all took place in the course of one day. I w
Ulysses is very similar to Homer's Odyssey. Homer's epic almost seemed to be the model or structure that Joyce used to create Ulysses. In the Odyssey, Telemachus decides to leave Ithaca and to search for his father, Odysseus, so that he and Telemachus might return home and will be able to drive away the suitors who are desecrating Ithaca while courting Penelope, Odysseus' wife. In Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus is being forced out of the Tower by Haines and Mulligan. Just as Calypso held Odysseus captive, his wife Molly is holding Leopold Bloom captive. At the end of the Odyssey, Odysseus is reunited with his wife Penelope. At first, Penelope does not recognize her husband but is convinced only after Odysseus describes their bed. In Joyce's novel the scene is recreated with the Blooms' bed, whose jingling sound has been heard, foreshadowed and developed through several scenes in the novel. as fascinated by the almost "a day in the life of" type novel which I hadn
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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