It will do you good (the air), said Bloom, meaning

also to walk, in a moment. the only thing is

walk then you will feel like a different man. He is not

far. Lean on Me. Consequently, he passed to his left

Stephen’s right arm and led him accordingly.

–Yes, Stephen said uncertainly, because he thought

felt a strange kind of meat of a different

man approaches him, muscleless and wobbly and

everything that. (your 581) [Emphasize mine]

Joyce’s two protagonists in Ulises, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus are exiled figures throughout the novel. Both wander through the city of Dublin during Thursday June 16, 1904, and Joyce records his adventurous wanderings in a delicate and detailed way in Dublin. Bloom and Stephen’s wandering around Dublin seems to be searching for something. Something like a lost family, a lost father, a lost son. In this article the purpose is to examine the similarities of exile and the intellectual traits of these two protagonists, and if Joyce has any purpose for them to meet at the end of that special day.

Blades in your book, how to study james joyce, he points out that the departure of the two protagonists from Joyce is paralleled in chapter 1 and chapter 4. Both decide to escape from some kind of usurper at home. According to Blades Stephen, who seems “more prepared, at least mentally, to get out of the house, to loosen up like a bum” (109), escapes from the Martello tower, on which he pays rent, but feels he is being operated on by Buck Mulligan and Haines (the British tourist). Bloom in chapter 4 similarly feels that he cannot “come home because of his wife’s alleged adultery with Blazes Boylan, another kind of usurper” (109). Therefore, Joyce makes Bloom and Stephen’s departure parallel, presumably so that they meet at the end of their day trip. Another common factor that unites these two protagonists, in addition to the alienation of their homes, is related to the serious problems within their families. In presenting in detail the problems of these two families, Joyce could have taken into account the critical situation of Irish political and colonial life, which definitely affected the social and family life of Dubliners. The chaotic political and religious social life had definitely affected the lives of people like Joyce, Bloom and Dedalus. Their family problems have had a direct relationship, perhaps intensified, with the chaos of the society in which they lived.

Both Stephen and Bloom are frustrated and humiliated by their family relationships. First, it is Stephen’s father, Simon Dedalus, who in Stephen’s words is “too Irish” (your 543), and has not been a good father to Stephen and the whole family from the beginning. In Portrait, his careless and irresponsible manner led to the family’s ultimate financial and social failure. Stephen Dedalus feels that his family has betrayed him, especially his father, who is the most guilty person, at least in Stephen’s opinion, in creating such a chaotic family condition that has lasted since Portrait a Ulises. Sometime before his mother’s death, Stephen left the wretched house and fled. Now that the mother is gone, the little integrity of the family has vanished. In UlisesToo disgusted to return to his father’s house, Stephen chooses a life of wandering and exile on the streets of Dublin. Furthermore, he is so disgusted by his father’s actions that he denies the legitimacy of a biological father!

On the other side of history and in another part of Dublin, there is Leopold Bloom. He is another man/son undermined by the actions of his father. His Jewish father committed suicide some time ago. Even to escape the embarrassment of his father’s action, Leopold has changed his original surname from Virag to Bloom. In addition, her wife, who has been and is famous for her beauty, flirtatiousness and her singing profession, is probably going to have a date with Blazes Boylan. Bloom, aware of this infidelity, does not like to return to his home and bed. Further, and also bitter, is the fact that Bloom’s wish to have a child, a male heir, fell through some ten or eleven years ago, when his youngest child, Rudy, died some eleven days after Bloom’s birth. the. “If little Rudy had lived. To see him grow up. To hear his voice in the house. My son. Me in his eyes. It would be a strange feeling. From me, only one opportunity” (your 90). Thus, in addition to being betrayed by his wife, his wish to have a child has not been fulfilled and this could intensify his sadness in his family. He leaves his house and, metaphorically speaking, he too could be looking for a surrogate son.

“…and now Sir Leopold, having no male child of his body for heir, looked upon him as the son of his friend, and shut himself up in sorrow for his lost happiness” (your 388). Ulises in a sense it could be interpreted as a tale of a father in search of a son, and a tale of a son in search of a father. Sherry sees this quest in its mythic form: “In this climactic scene, then, Bloom seems to move simultaneously as mythical father and epic hero; as the projection of Stephen’s subjective and artistic vision of fatherhood and as the public hero Odysseus, who returns to clean up a rotten house and a rotten society” (49). Thus, Joyce subtly brings these two protagonists together, setting up a very plausible backstory for chapters one through four, for this visit to happen. For example, Joyce, in presenting a Shakespearean play such as Hamlet, might have had many references to the lives of Stephen and Bloom in mind. A father killed by poison, a son searching for a father, a cheating wife, a son haunted by the ghost of a father (Stephen haunted by the ghost of his mother and Bloom haunted by the ghost of his father). the). Thus, it becomes more obvious that Stephen, too, in his one-day wanderings might be in search of a using father. Blades believes that Joyce’s quoting the sentence “I am your father’s spirit” causes Mr. Bloom to add “further weight to the suggestion that he symbolizes a kind of spiritually artistic father figure, while Stephen represents to him a surrogate son at the wake”. of Mr. Bloom’s real son, Rudy“ (125). Thus, Ulises in a certain sense it is the story of two castaways in search of what is lost; a father or a son. There are two significant similarities between these two protagonists, first their missing factor and second their alienation and exile.

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