The Concept Of Home In Daedalus Ulysses

How does Joyce grapple with the idea of home in Ulysses? How do the main characters relate to home as a physical entity as opposed to an idea or a concept? Daedalus tackles with the idea of home through the course of Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man as well as in Ulysses. He detested home while he still lived there, craving to escape his dull and restrictive everyday life but now finds himself haunted with thoughts of his dead mother and his inability to perform actions that she expected of him. An insistent theme that we encounter as Deadlus’ character grows is the usurping of home. While Odysseus is away from Ithaca in The Odyssey, his household is usurped by would-be suitors of his wife, Penelope. This motif translates directly to Ulysses and provides a connection between Stephen and Bloom. Deadlus pays rent for the Martello tower, where
(1.157)” How does history for someone like Daedalus translate to a nightmare? History plays an interesting role in Deadlus’ life. On one hand, he loathes it but he also happens to be a professor of History. In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, when Stephen is in boarding school, the two debate teams take on red and white roses to represent two sides of the debate. Daedalus thinks of a green rose and we see that he lives in denial. . He thinks of the colours as being chosen because they are aesthetically appealing and completely neglects any political or historical connotation
In Nestor, when Deasy starts to give him an impromptu history lesson, Daedalus cuts him off by saying “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake’’ (1.157). Stephen’s statement refers his attempt to grapple with circumstances of his own past, and to the philosophical problem of how history should be used to understand present circumstances. His mother’s death plagues him in a nightmarish way and since he believes that he is unable to control history, he actively denies