Transcript Ulysses - MARILENA BELTRAMINI

Ulysses
Molly’s Monologue and Main
Features of the Work
Understanding the text
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The text can be divided into 6 parts:
House Decoration
Molly’s Love for Nature
Molly’s Point of View on Atheism
Her Relationship with Bloom and how she
liked him,
- Memories of her Adolescence in Gibraltar
- Memories of her Romance in Gibraltar
Narrative techniques
- Departure from traditional narrative
conventions:
• interior monologue  stream of
consciousness
• the narrator is non-existent
• lack of punctuation
• lack of syntax
Coherence
• Association / Juxtaposition of Ideas (flowers)
• Reference to Specific Details (names of people
and places)
• Semantic Tags
Molly Bloom
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A Singer
Her Attitude to Life:
Positive
Warm
Sensual Nature
sight
hearing
taste
Molly vs Penelope
Molly
Unfaithful
Sensual Nature 
disrespect of marriage
bonds
Modern, independent 
she does not need a man
to get to self-realization
Penelope
Faithful
Supreme and long lasting
respect for marriage bonds
More traditional woman
she keeps waiting because
she feels her world is
incomplete without
Ulysses
Ulysses: General Features
• The Plot
• The Relation to Odyssey:
- on the characters’ level
Bloom  Ulysses
Stephen  Telemachus
Molly  Penelope
- the organization
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The Setting (Dublin)
The Mythical Method:
Psychology + Ethnology + Anthropology
The Representation of Human Nature
Pure Intellect vs Sensual Nature
Stephen
Leopold
• A Revolutionary Prose
Molly