Interior Monologue in Ulysses

Despite the mixed parallels and connections between Homers Odyssey and Jockeys Ulysses, It is Jockeys determination and arrangement of his impudent that sets it apart from Homers mythological poem. Dissimilar to Homers Odyssey, Ulysses Is set In the metropolis of Dublin on the 16th of June 1904. For Joyce, this particular date held a great amount of sentimental cling to as it was the day of his first date with his future wife thus questioning the idea of Joyce injecting a hint of romanticism by commemorating that particular date into a bracing that has been exposit as vulgar and a work of blasphemy.Ulysses develops over the space of twenty-four hours and despite the novels small time cast off the countless events and occurrences that the characters encounter are described in-depth and often quite humorously. Jockeys main intentions for his novel were to make it, in his opinion, as realistic as possible, to give a picture of Dublin so complete that If the metropolis one day sudde nly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book (A Portrait of The operative As A Young Man, pig. 0). To emphasis the subdivision of realism Joyce described the characters as visiting veritable(a) Dublin landmarks and establishments such(prenominal) as Dad Byres pub and a Marcello Tower In Sandstone, Dublin. It Is finished Jockeys element of realism, he overall structure and the multiple modes of written material of his novel that suggests Ulysses is a significant conspicuous adult male of modernist literature in its own right.In Ulysses Joyce discards the tralatitiousist convention of maintaining a story passim the entirety of his novel by persistently introducing other titles of writing episode by episode. Joyce continuously alters the narrator and the protagonist of the novel along with the style of how each chapter is written switching from a conventional muniment of maintaining one lonely hero or protagonist to swapping around the central ch aracters throughout several episodes. Furthermore, throughout each soul episode numerous themes are Introduced such as death. Hysterics and sexual desire. As the novel progresses and the protagonists and methods of writing variety the characters accounts of what has appeared to be everyday mundane actions, seen in the opening episodes, hold out more circumstantial and complex as they Interact more with the Inhabitants of Dublin and their surroundings. Wealth the opening episode Telemeters it would appear that the novel is undermentioned the conventional narrative writing regime as on first impressions what appears to be the protagonist of the novel, Stephen Deals is introduced.Stephen is a known character as he is show as the aging and maturing central character In Jockeys A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man. Through the opening chapters of Ulysses It would seem to be following the same routine as Jockeys previous work concerning the 1 OFF connecter AT Stephen as Ulysses Tolls Stepsons every clay, Toulouse octagons sun as eating breakfast and shaving, He laid the brush aside and, express mirth with delight Began to shave with care, (pig. ). The narrative throughout Telemeters conventionally follows A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man as Joyce is associating is narrative with internal monologue depicting Stephens inner voice and sprout of consciousness as he performs everyday tasks. This is further reinforced in Nester where Stephen is undertaking his situation as a teacher. Joyce is continuing his narrative through Stephens internal monologue but here a different theme is introduced.In the previous episode the reader sees Stephen and his friend Buck Mulligan undergo their aurora routine but it is in Nester where Joyce introduces a catechist style of writing through Stephen teaching his clear up History and English declaring that history s, a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, (pig. 27) to which the school passkey Mr. Ideas respond s, all human history moves towards one great goal, the manifestation of God, (pig. 7) which ultimately refers to Stephens endless search for a father in a religious and spiritual sense noticeably mirrored with Homers poem. Joyce carcass at heart the inner voice consciousness that has previously been presented in the introductory episodes but it is in Calypso where the narrative is altered as an entirely different type of consciousness is presented through the character Leopold elevation. Joyce depicts rush as a modernized bourgeois Odysseus developed and adapted to enhance his twentieth century revolutionary novel.Opposing to episodes such as Telemeters and Nester and characters such as Stephen and Buck, it is in Calypso where Joyce presents the reader with a more precise account of a particular character even going to the extent of describing his innate love for forage Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, cracke d gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crust crumbs, fried honchos roes.Most of all he liked barbecued mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine. (pig. 40). It is Jockeys description of Blooms excessive desire and love for food that initiates the awareness that Joyce is purposely making Blooms gluttony undeniably apparent which is the first meter reading that the character of Bloom is to be vulgar and discourteous which further opposes Jockeys descriptions and details illustrated in the preceding episodes.As Blooms detailed characterization continues he becomes increasingly uncouth, By word and deed he frankly encouraged a nocturnal strumpet o deposit fecal and other matter in an unsanitary john attached to empty premises, (pig. 369). Joyce differs from his previous style of writing by shifting the subjects to which his characters embrace, the respectable characteristics of Stephen observed and depicted in earlier episodes a re disregarded as he introduces the character of Bloom who is described as a perverted Jew, (pig. 52) and the contrasting characters sexual nature and desire remain prominent throughout the course of study of the novel, the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid floating flower, (pig. 3). Blooms narrative is similar to that of Stephens in the sense that it illustrates every day actions and events in a mundane manner yet it is Blooms account that involves complex and in-depth detail.Furthermore, it is through the altered narrative presenting Blooms consciousness impertinent to that of Stephens and through the ratter vulgar connecter AT Bloom, Joyce Is addle to tackle matters en NAS not mystifier addressed such as bodily functions and sexual desires. Despite Blooms vulgarity and his erotic thoughts and desires and the fact that he lacks the conventional heartsickness of Stephen it becomes evident that Bloo m does have a high level of moral standing.When Bloom and Stephen are wandering through the streets of Bloom becomes a provisional father figure to Stephen during his search for a higher being as Blooms description of Stephen, l know him. Hes a gentleman, a poet (pig. 393) validates the respect and marvel the two men have for each other. Additionally, when his wife mollie is revealed as an adulterer he remains faithful and loyal to their marriage. Molly Bloom is additional character Joyce uses to depict another style of narration. Her soliloquy is illustrated in Penelope, the final episode of Jockeys Ulysses.Dissimilar to her husband and Stephen being parallel to Homers mythological Greek characters, ironically Molly opposes the faithful and devoted character of Penelope supposedly her twentieth century counterpart. Throughout Jockeys novel it is Bloom that provides the main depiction of the character of Molly through his thoughts and opinions towards her ultimately giving the read er her characterization from a male point of view, Penelope is the first encounter where Molly and Blooms relationship is viewed from her perspective.Joyce stylists Mollys interior monologue described throughout the final eighteenth episode entirely different to those observed in the preceding episodes. Joyce composes Mollys dirge out of eight extensive elongated sentences with barely any punctuation enabling the reader to become enthralled by her intense and exasperated thoughts revealing yet another varying from of Jockeys writing style Yes Was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusia girls employ or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with y eye to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all sweetness yes and his heart wa s going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. (pig. 25) Jockeys style of writing in the final episode distinctively differs from other episodes in Ulysses as it offers an eagerly anticipated spirit of Mollys sentiments. During her intense dialogue she continuously alternates from one subject to another and the lack of punctuation powerfully accentuates her apprehension and awareness of her own character flaws. Molly constantly repeats, begins and ends with the word, yes to which Joyce describes as the female word ultimately giving a character that has not held her own narrative throughout the novel, but has been portrayed by other characters, the ratiocination statement in Ulysses.At first glance the opening pages of Ulysses depict a false allusion of what is to succeed throughout the remaining pages of Jockeys paramount novel. Through what appears to be the initial protagonist Stephens interior monologue illustrating his routine and matte every day actions whilst wandering i n and around the City f Dublin in search of a divine being, abruptly transposes with Jockeys sudden introduction of the character of Leopold Bloom.The central character shifts from straight-laced Stephen to the naked and comical Bloom. Jockeys adjustment to Bloom incorporates an entirely different style and mode of writing for he dives into Blooms colloquial tongue Nils In-patent Ana meticulous ascription AT Nils credentials, social class and background. In a further change of narration Molly Bloom is appointed her own individual episode comprised of a soliloquy presented altogether by herself exhibiting Jockeys attitude towards feminism and the female mind.It is through Jockeys multiple styles of writing and his modern interpretation of Homers Odyssey and the insertion of realism that Ulysses is viewed as one of the greatest works of modern literature and a landmark fragment of avian-garden Irish writing due to its radical subjects and incidences, specifically the descriptions of bodily functions, explicit sexual encounters and Jockeys use of profanity. The model of Ulysses being a profound work of literature is further reinforced by Jockeys revolt against the traditional forms of narrative prose which had been the mainstream style of writing during the literary world throughout Jockeys era.Choosing to break free from the traditionalist narrative approach Joyce presents an innovative and contemporary style of writing as each episode of the somewhat restrict novel reveals a different account of what Joyce himself describes as everyday Irish life depicted through multiple styles. It is through his multiple styles of writing demonstrated entirely differently throughout each episode that make Ulysses surpass other works of its kind. James Jockeys A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man, Bloom, Harold. New York Chelsea House, 1988. Ulysses, Joyce, J. The Echo Library 2009. Lecture and seminar notes have also been used.