Molly Bloom

the thought of how he used       to treat his mother, Molly thinks of the sweater she knit for her dead son       Rudy, and Bloom has a vision of what Rudy might have been like as a young       man. In all three cases, the theme of love is an absolute. What is more,       the issue of getting over a kind of love is concrete. Stephen is trying to       get over how he treated his mother, and Molly and Bloom are trying to get       over the death of their son. Though

Women in Homer's Odyssey, Joyce's Ulysses and Walcott's Omeros        This essay explores the role of women in Homer's Odyssey, James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) and Derrick Walcott's Omeros (1990), epics written in very different historical periods.  Common to all three epics are women as the transforming figure in a man's life, both in the capacity of a harlot and as wife.               In Homer's Odyssey, Kirke, represents the catalyst who encourages Odysseus's transformation into a mature

Critical discourse on the “Cyclops” episode of Ulysses has remained remarkably consistent over its history. Much of the analysis focuses the episode’s dual expression through narration and what David Hayman calls the narrative “asides,” with other attention paid towards the episode’s narrative structure and characterization. In this paper, I will explore the episode’s history of critical discourse, beginning first by looking at the process of its creation as explicated by Michael Groden in his essay

home. Much of the action in the chapter accurately corresponds to the action of Homer’s epic; Bloom has to enter his house by “a stratagem" after forgetting his keys (17.84), like Zeus’ sign of reassurance— “the liturgical review of Bloom's day is rewarded by a ‘loud lone crack emitted by the insentient material of a strainveined timber table’” (Joyce 17.2061-62 [Gifford 566]), and most saliently, Bloom “kills” Molly’s suitors in his own right. Near the end of the chapter, he gives a list of the

Dylan Madden Professor Jeffrey Skoblow English 497A 22 September 2017 First Journal Week 1-5 Ulysses by James Joyce Telemachus Going into this book for the first time, I found it difficult to understand what was transpiring until going back and rereading a number of times. In the first chapter, there were many themes that I discovered surrounding the character Stephen Dedalus. For example, the first theme, religion, had a deep effect on Stephen especially after his mother died and during his conversation

flight and not able to sit calmly” (Bloom). For these kids, meditation becomes an outlet to relieve their pent-up emotions, and let their guards down for several moments. The room becomes a safe haven for them, which is why meditation should be more common in classrooms across the world, for students of all ages. Another benefit of meditation is that it can increase students’ discipline, which in turn, decreases the school’s total number of suspensions. Deborah Bloom from CNN reports that “Thompson says

noticed a hidden Bloom masturbating, which led her to adjust her seating and move around “her wellturned ankle” (Joyce 350) to show off her legs. The scene was perverted toward women but it made her more wanted. Bernard McKenna’s reference book on Joyce’s story suggests that Bloom is at a point of his life where he is unsure of what to do especially when he talks about his daughter Milly being away and about his dead son Rudy. when it came to the situation of his wife Molly and her affair with

Comparing Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock In Episode 8 of Ulysses, Joyce sends Bloom and the reader through a gauntlet of food that enlarges one of the novel¹s main linguistic strategies, that of gradual digestion. While Episode 10 may seem like a more appropriate choice for a spatial representation of the city, this episode maps digestion out like Bloom wanders the streets of Dublin, with thoughts entering foremost through the body and exiting them. In T.S. Eliot¹s

James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland on February 2nd 1882. Joyce was born into a big family, with 10 brothers and sisters. His mother was loving and dutiful, and his father was charming but developed a drinking problem. Joyce grew up embarrassed of his father's condition. In spite of this, Joyce’s father recognized his son’s intelligence and had him attend two of the most prestigious schools in Ireland. Giving Joyce the ability to pursue his talent of writing. As Joyce grew older he became more

daily existence, revealing what we cherish, what we wish to hide, what we value, and what we are told to value. Such is the case in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, in which Leopold Bloom does a complete inventory of his drawers in the chapter entitled Ithaca. In doing so, he describes “a cameo scarfpin, property of Rudolph Bloom (born Virago), deceased.” While the significance of the scarfpin is initially obscured by Joyce’s overwhelming stream of objects, it comes to serve as a powerful symbol for both