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They drove his wits astray, he said, by visions of hell

They drove his wits astray, he said, by visions of hell

—They drove his wits astray, he said, by visions of hell. He will never capture the Attic note. The note of Swinburne, of all poets, the white death and the ruddy birth. That is his tragedy. He can never be a poet. The joy of creation…

They drove his wits astray, he said, by visions of hell

They drove his wits astray, he said, by visions of hell

—They drove his wits astray, he said, by visions of hell. He will never capture the Attic note. The note of Swinburne, of all poets, the white death and the ruddy birth. That is his tragedy. He can never be a poet. The joy of creation…

Ulysses Charecters

Leopold Bloom

Leopold Bloom

Bloom is our protagonist. The majority if the book follows him as he conducts business in Dublin, interacts with Joyce's extensive cast of characters, and ruminates on the impending affair between his beloved wife Molly and her manager Blazes Boylan. Bloom's actions...

Molly Bloom

Molly Bloom

Molly is Leopold Bloom's wife and the object of his affection. Molly is also the mother of Millicent (Milly) Bloom and Rudolph (Rudy) Bloom. Molly is an opera singer and is having an affair with her manager Blazes Boylan, her manager.

Stephen Dedalus

Stephen Dedalus

Stephen is a young intellectual about town and is the focus of the first three episodes of the novel. Stephen is Joyce's literary version of himself and reflects the author both in appearance and personality. Stephen is tortured of late by the recent death of his...

Episode 1: Telemachus

The first Episode in Ulysses begins at the Martello Tower in Sandycove, Dublin. The scene involves 4 characters, Buck Mulligan, Stephen Dedalus, and Hainse, three young men who are staying in the tower, and a milkmaid who is delivering milk to them. The episode explores themes of death, Dedalus’s relationship to the Catholic Church, and the relationship of the country of Ireland with its people.

Episode 2: Nestor

Episode 2 takes place at Garrett Deasy’s school where Stephen is a teacher. Stephen is teaching a class in which one of the students is struggling. Stephen contemplates the relationship between the boy and his mother. In this episode, multiple parallels are drawn between Deasy and the character Nestor from the Odesey. 

Episode 3: Proteus

In Episode 3 we find Stephen on Sandymount Strand contemplating both a visit to the home of his aunt and uncle, and the question of what is real and what is imagined. He contemplates the complicated relationship between his father and his uncle, and the “Ineluctable modality of the visible”.