5/24/2023 0 Comments Bloomsday ulysses![]() ![]() The book's humor springs from the author’s observations about the life of the church. Through humor, Joyce makes his protagonist Bloom a sympathetic character the reader can root for. Ulysses is famous for its use of stream of consciousness to illuminate what the characters are thinking and feeling. In the book, we follow an ordinary day in the lives of Bloom, a Jewish Dubliner, and Dedalus, a young teacher, who often pass by one another in Dublin before meeting up near the book’s conclusion. James Joyce was raised and educated in the Catholic Church, attending Clongowes Wood, a Jesuit college (the equivalent of an American high school), and although he grew alienated from the church, Ulysses is overflowing with references to prayers, church services and saints. The novel’s protagonist, Leopold Bloom, mourns both his deceased son and his father, and finds another son in Stephen Dedalus. Paternity is an important theme throughout the book. And the strength of its humor springs from the author’s observations about the life of the church, an institution whose theology and rituals, though they continue to be adapted over the years, in some ways have not changed much over the last century.įor instance, Joyce set the action of the book on one day: June 16, 1904, the feast day of the French Jesuit John Francis Regis, the patron saint of illegitimate children. Despite its reputation for being intellectually demanding, James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses is also funny, even absurd at times. ![]()
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