The Cracked Looking Glass
Illustrating The Works Of James Joyce One Page At A TimeFor A Complete List Of Ulysses Episodes
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Like sir Philip Crampton’s fountain
My plate’s empty. After you with our incorporated drinkingcup. Like sir Philip Crampton’s fountain. Rub off the microbes with your handkerchief. Next chap rubs on a new batch with his.
Ulysses Charecters
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 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 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...
Blazes Boylan
Hugh "Blazes" Boylan is Bloom's primary antagonist. Boylan is a promoter for the concert that Molly Bloom will soon be singing with, and Molly and Boylan are having an affair. Boylan surfaces multiple times throughout the story and provides Bloom with a painful...
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”.
