Hayes‚ Sless 1 Danny Hayes and Julian Sless Mr. Bruner English 9 B 4/5/10 Alfred Lord Tennyson Facing with many hardships throughout his life‚ Tennyson used “Ulysses” to express his feelings about “going forward and braving the struggle of life” (Napierkowski 277). Tennyson’s father’s death in 1831 forced him to return home to take care of his family’s needs. During this time he struggled from poverty and his two brother’s mental illnesses. Although he faced these problems‚ Tennyson’s
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"I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far‚" Virginia Woolf writes in her diary for 16 August 1922‚ and reports that she has been "amused‚ stimulated‚ charmed[‚] interested ... to the end of the Cemetery scene." As "Hades" gives way to "Aeolus‚" however‚ and the novel of character and private sensibility yields to a farrago of styles‚ she is "puzzled‚ bored‚ irritated‚ & disillusioned"--by no grand master of language‚ in her characterization‚ but "by a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples
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promote human degradation. The four archetypes; ’Joseph‚" "Hamlet‚" and "Ulysses‚" and ‘Gulliver’‚ are "travelers‚" like Gulliver who have been at one time or another physically (Joseph and Ulysses)‚ or mentally (Hamlet) imprisoned or trapped. As one might expect‚ all four poems work cross-referentially with their original counterparts: "Joseph" with the Old Testament Book of Genesis; "Hamlet" with Shakespeare’s play; "Ulysses" with both Homer’s epic and James Joyce’s novel; and "Gulliver" with Part
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Stream of consciousness is a special mode of narration that undertakes to capture the full spectrum and the continuous flow of a character’s mental process‚ where sense perception mingle with conscious and half-conscious thoughts and memories‚ experiences‚ feelings and random associates. In literature‚ technique that records the multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence. It is a narrative method where a writer describes the unspoken
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The Comparison of George Moore and James Joyce Ireland is best known for its unique culture‚ the accent‚ the green beer‚ and the music. But it is also known for its diverse literature and writers. Over the years there have been many different writers with their own sense of styles and their personal views of Ireland. There are many writers‚ such as James Joyce‚ Roddy Doyle‚ Edna O’Brien‚ George Moore‚ and Frank O’Conner who all came from different places in Ireland or even moved out of Ireland
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<http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/grecoromanmyth1/ss/60412-MythDawnTithonus.htm>. About.com. N.S. Gill‚ 2012. Web. 24 Sept. 2012. <http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/homerodyssey/g/011508Ulysses.htm>. Christ‚ Carol T.‚ et al. “Tithonus.”/”Ulysses” 1833. The Romantic Period Through The Twentieth Century and After. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. 8th ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2006. 1962-65. Print. Vol. B of The Norton Anthology English Literature. The Major Authors 8. Good Reads
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tephen Dadalus; James Joyce’s Version Of Shakespeare’s Hamlet In the Victorian Era Those who were close with James Joyce say that he was determined to become a better writer than the beloved William Shakespeare. James Joyce considered his work Ulysses to be seen as a literary reference to a variety of styles‚ points of view‚ and is in fact full of reference to literature and Victorian culture. Although this classic harmonizes with Homer’s The Odyssey‚ there is more allusion to Hamlet’s character
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such as Ulysses. Much of Joyce’s life contributed to his writings and he has been influence by many people and events. Joyce grew up in Ireland and then moved to England where he began his writing. He wrote for England but was Irish at heart and this will be shown in his writings. Many things influenced Joyce’s writings‚ from other authors‚ to his life experiences. Joyce used other books as a platform for his own books. A major example of this is Joyce’s book Ulysses‚ which he
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THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE IN TENNYSON’S ULYSSES The greatest Victorian contribution to poetry is certainly the form of the dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is defined by various critics as a type of poem in which a single speaker‚ a persona‚ “utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem‚ in a specific situation at a critical moment.” This speaker addresses and interacts with one or more other people. They are silent but usually identifiable listeners in whose presence the speaker reveals
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in the country always come in his mind. “When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality‚ language‚ religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”(Portrait of an artist as a young man) In “Ulysses” there is also national identity problem with the protagonist Leopold Bloom‚ his position is very uncertain in the novel as a Irish Hungarian Jew. Because of his multi-faced identity and especially due to his jewishness he was considered as an outsider
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