During the English literary modernism, many authors put forth unique, exciting and never done before ideas for writing methods and techniques. One of the most well known of such new ideas was the "stream of consciousness". In my essay I will try and describe the technique used in relation with James Joyce's Ulysses. My essay will grasp the term itself and how it is used in the eighteenth, Penelope episode.
Stream of consciousness is a literary term which is the name for a writing technique which was thought out in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s most noted user has been James Joyce. It is a method for the author to get a character's point of view and emotions across to the reader via linking the reader directly to their thoughts. …show more content…
The entire story of Ulysses all takes place throughout one day, the 16th of June 1904. During this day, the two central characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom encounter various events, places and people on their everyday journeys in Dublin, ranging from newspaper offices of the Freemen’s Journal to the red light district. Throughout the day the story jumps around scenes in Dublin and where are able to see the city not only physically, but in relation to the feelings and ideas our heroes get from their surroundings around the city. The important glimpses at stream of consciousnesses are given mainly from Bloom's view and Stephen's view, until the very end, where Molly Bloom finally gets her say, and a chance to redeem …show more content…
Through the beginning of the chapter, which consists of a few overly bloated and long sentences, portraying molly’s emotions or drowsy thoughts, Molly Bloom ponders about a wide range of things, mainly about her past lovers and her youth at Gibraltar, to the birth of her daughter Milly and her job as a singer and her competitors. In Molly's second 'sentence' she is remembering on her courtiers from her past and present. Her affair with Blazes Boylan is seemed to be the leading train of thought in this unendingly long sentence as she remembers the afternoon she just spent with him, and also an soon performance in Belfast. She also thinks of the differences between Boylan and Bloom. Compared to a usual novel, the close personal nature of her thoughts and the natural way she acts is astounding. The clarity and even the close ups we get of Molly’s body is unparalleled in the way of describing characters in other works. The way the writing goes in the novel and the depth and complexity of thoughts and memories we get from tapping into Molly's mind really makes everything we knew about her much better rounded and defined. We get to see what she thought of different situations almost as in much depth as a real person would react, and how she was, "I went into 1 of
Stream of consciousness is a literary term which is the name for a writing technique which was thought out in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s most noted user has been James Joyce. It is a method for the author to get a character's point of view and emotions across to the reader via linking the reader directly to their thoughts. …show more content…
The entire story of Ulysses all takes place throughout one day, the 16th of June 1904. During this day, the two central characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom encounter various events, places and people on their everyday journeys in Dublin, ranging from newspaper offices of the Freemen’s Journal to the red light district. Throughout the day the story jumps around scenes in Dublin and where are able to see the city not only physically, but in relation to the feelings and ideas our heroes get from their surroundings around the city. The important glimpses at stream of consciousnesses are given mainly from Bloom's view and Stephen's view, until the very end, where Molly Bloom finally gets her say, and a chance to redeem …show more content…
Through the beginning of the chapter, which consists of a few overly bloated and long sentences, portraying molly’s emotions or drowsy thoughts, Molly Bloom ponders about a wide range of things, mainly about her past lovers and her youth at Gibraltar, to the birth of her daughter Milly and her job as a singer and her competitors. In Molly's second 'sentence' she is remembering on her courtiers from her past and present. Her affair with Blazes Boylan is seemed to be the leading train of thought in this unendingly long sentence as she remembers the afternoon she just spent with him, and also an soon performance in Belfast. She also thinks of the differences between Boylan and Bloom. Compared to a usual novel, the close personal nature of her thoughts and the natural way she acts is astounding. The clarity and even the close ups we get of Molly’s body is unparalleled in the way of describing characters in other works. The way the writing goes in the novel and the depth and complexity of thoughts and memories we get from tapping into Molly's mind really makes everything we knew about her much better rounded and defined. We get to see what she thought of different situations almost as in much depth as a real person would react, and how she was, "I went into 1 of