Category: Ulysses

Modernism was a movement that formed at the beginning of the twentieth century and lasted roughly 65 years. Cultural shocks, such as World War I, instigated the era of Modernism. While this war was meant to end all wars, people could not fathom that such an event was actually taking place, and the disastrous state…

Alfred Lord Tennysons fascination with Greek mythology and Arthurian legends are largely evident in his literary works. The Lady of Shallot, Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, Galahad and Idylls of the King are examples of his Arthurian inclinations. Ulysses, Tithonus and The Lotos Eaters show his beguilement to Greek mythology. The poem Ulysses was written…

Mazzenos review of Ulysses begins with an outlook on different perspectives of critics. While Tennyson’s contemporaries seem to view it as the heroic spirit who is determined to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield, some later critics see it as the most unconscious confessions of a king who has failed. He, after…

The order of evacuation by the authorities demonstrates the intensity of the danger, and the information Heinrich provides, as ambiguous as it is, further questions the sense of living. The cloud, a by-product of a consumer product designed to remove the discomforts of nature from our world, is a literalized culmination of the various insidious…

Ulysses is dwelling on his return home after his long and fulfilling journey through the seas and is unsatisfied with what he has returned to. He is longing for the satisfaction of sharing the adventures that he experienced after the Trojan war, however, he is disappointed when his kingdom is nothing but ungrateful. Ulysses feels…

I or Eye This essay ponders upon one of the main aspects present in James Joyce’s Ulysses, namely Joyce’s postmodern’ turn, discourse parallax. In order for this to properly happen, the first and foremost issue to discuss should be the chapter titled Cyclops’, this being the chapter in which I opt to analyze this aspect.…