Moreover, it should be kept in mind that the novel was written in stream of consciousness technique and therefore celebrates the interior of man rather than the exterior. The psyc...
An important theme in Ulysses is that death is universal, ordinary, and extraordinary. The universality of death makes it possible for some characters to bond over mourning. Both B...
In Ulysses the characters celebrate, fear, and envy femininity and maternity. Stephen reflects on the universality of mothers' love. The themes of femininity and maternity un...
With the themes of Irish nationalism and the Catholic Church, Ulysses both supports Irish independence and satirizes the forces dominating Ireland. Those forces include England, th...
Ulysses emphasizes the fragility of the bond of fathers and sons. Ulysses is replete with thematic fathers and sons, but the novel's central father-son relationship, Bloom and Step...
At its most basic level, Ulysses is a book about Stephen’s search for a symbolic father and Bloom’s search for a son. In this respect, the plot of Ulysses parallels Telemachus’s se...