Introduction to Ulysses

The novel tells the story of young poet Stephen looking for a spiritual symbol of his father and Bloom looking for his son. Stephen already has a biological father, Simon Dedalus, but Stephen only regards him as his biological father. He thinks he has the ability to grow up and become a father. However, because of his father's criticism and incomprehension, Simon Dedalus did not succeed.

So the father Stephen is looking for can only be a symbolic father, and he can allow Stephen to be a father himself. Bloom's search for his son is largely because he needs a descendant to consolidate his identity and continue the incense. It can be seen that both Stephen and Bloom hope to consolidate their identities by seeking fatherhood.

Joyce shows people a microcosm of human society by describing a single event in a day, and reveals the joys and sorrows of human society, the existence of heroes and cowards, the coexistence of grandeur and desolation by describing a person's daily life and spiritual changes in detail.

Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce, which was first published in 1922. Ulysses, as a masterpiece of stream-of-consciousness novels, is regarded as the first of the top 100 British novels in the 20th century and the greatest novel in the 20th century.

The works in the extended materials do not positively describe the heroic achievements of galloping on the battlefield and killing the enemy to resist aggression when the motherland is in danger, nor do they show the lofty aspirations of Jin Goma Railway. However, based on his own unique experience and experience, the author, from an objective perspective beyond the limitations of his own nation, stood on the side of the insulted and damaged disadvantaged groups and described the history and present situation of Ireland in a unique artistic form, especially through the awareness of ordinary people's natural flow in daily life, exposing the evils of colonial rule and carrying forward the spirit of national liberation.

In Ulysses, Joyce's characterization art fully embodies the ingenious combination and organic unity of myth and reality. He not only took the name of Ulysses, the hero of Homer's epic Odyssey, as the title of the novel, but also made the activities of the main characters in Dublin one day correspond to the legendary experiences of some characters in ancient Greek mythology.

Joyce also uses different language forms to express the inner monologues of different characters. In his view, because the characters' personality, gender, age and education level are different, their inner monologues are bound to be different. He attaches great importance to the ideographic function of inner monologues, and often regards the "self" he expresses as the exposure of characters' personalities. Therefore, in Ulysses, each character's inner monologue is full of extremely distinctive personality, which plays an important auxiliary role in rendering the characters' images.

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