Molly as a Modern Penelope

Molly as a Modern Penelope

  • Submitted By: enni13
  • Date Submitted: 03/16/2009 8:04 AM
  • Category: English
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,Ulysses is one of the best mature works written by Joyce, closely related with Homers Odyssey. Each of the chapters are connected with an episode in the Greek epic. Joyce settled the place of Ulysses in a one single day, June 16,1904. He begins his poem with Leopold Bloom walking through the Dublin’s streets living his wife Molly at home, alone in her bed.. Molly has been represented only in Leopold’s thoughts, throughout the day when he thinks about her adultery with his Boylan. Through the book, everything about Molly’s character is unclear, we can only judged her, ask questions about her, wondering about her actions and “outrageous” behaviour, till the end when Joyce makes it all clear. Her voice and her thoughts suddenly start to create a whole image about her. All her secret passions, dreams, troubles became more vivid and understandable. With her hypnotic voice she make us to go deeply into her mind and soul. Joyce made this unpredictable part, without preparing the readers what’s coming next so he can made them breathless and surprised. Molly’s monologue is mixed with sadness and laughter, where she reveals all her intimate feelings and moments without doubting, without any shame, which makes her try woman. Through these long sentences, looking in her own perspective we see Bloom in different light, with strange and weird faults, that she accepted them like his wife. Molly accepts his unique way of his sleeping, his feet beside her head, and the time where he almost kicked her teeth. In the book “The Odysseus” when the main hero returns from his unforgettable journey to his home Ithaca and to his wife Penelope she couldn’t believe that this “stranger” is truly her beloved husband. Than she moved his bead out from their room. That was a test prepared just to see if he is really telling the truth. "Woman, your words--they cut me to the core! Who could move my bed?" (Fagles 461) and than he told her the only thing which only try Odysseus could know. He...

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