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

also for walking, in a moment. the only thing is

walk then you will feel a different man. that he is not

far. Lean on Me. Accordingly, 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 from a different

The man approaches him, muscleless and wobbly and

everything that. (you 581) [Emphasize mine]

The two protagonists of Joyce in Ulises, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus are exiled figures throughout the novel. The two wander through the city of Dublin during Thursday 16 June 1904, and Joyce records his adventurous wandering in delicate and detailed fashion in Dublin. Bloom and Stephen’s wandering around Dublin seems to be in search of something. Something like a lost family, a lost father, a lost son. In this article the purpose is to examine the exile similarities 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 his book, How to study James Joyce, he points out that the departure of the two Joyce protagonists is paralleled in chapter 1 and chapter 4. They both decide to escape from some kind of usurper at home. According to Blades Stephen, who seems to be “preparing himself more, at least in his mind, to get out of the house, to let loose like a bum” (109), escapes from the Martello tower, where he pays the rent, but feels that he is being operated on. by Buck Mulligan and Haines (the British tourist). Bloom in chapter 4 similarly feels that he cannot “return home because of his wife’s alleged adultery with Blazes Boylan, another type of usurper” (109). Thus, Joyce makes Bloom and Stephen’s departure parallel, probably so that they meet at the end of their day’s journey. Another common factor that unites these two protagonists, in addition to the alienation from their homes, is related to the serious problems within their families. By presenting the problems of these two families in detail, Joyce could have taken into account the critical situation of Irish colonial and political 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 feel frustrated and humiliated by their family relationships. First, it’s Stephen’s father, Simon Dedalus, who in Stephen’s words is “too Irish” (you 543), and has not been a good father to Stephen and the whole family from the start. 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 person most to blame, at least in Stephen’s opinion, for creating such a chaotic family condition that has lasted for ever. Portrait to Ulises. Sometime before the mother’s death, Stephen left the wretched house and fled. Now that the mother is gone, what little integrity in the family has vanished. In UlisesStephen, too disgusted to return to his father’s house, 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 the story, and in another part of Dublin, is Leopold Bloom. He is another man/son undermined by the actions of his father. His Jewish father has committed suicide some time ago. Even to escape the shame 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, coquetry and her job as a singer, will likely have a date with Blazes Boylan. Bloom aware of this infidelity, does not like to return to his home and bed. Furthermore, and also bitter, is the fact that Bloom’s desire for a child, a male heir, failed some ten or eleven years ago, when his youngest son, Rudy, died some eleven days after Bloom’s birth. he. “If little Rudy had lived. Seeing him grow. Hearing his voice in the house. My son. Me in his eyes. It would be a strange feeling. Only one chance from me” (you 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 might as well be looking for a surrogate child.

“…and now Sir Leopold, who had no male child for heir of his body, looked upon him as his friend’s son and shut himself up in sorrow for his lost happiness” (you 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 search in its mythical 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 society” (49). Thus, Joyce subtly has these two protagonists meet, setting up a very plausible backstory for chapters one through four, for this visit to happen. For example, Joyce, when presenting a Shakespearean play like Hamlet, might have had many references to the lives of Stephen and Bloom in mind. A father killed by poison, a son in search of a father, an unfaithful 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 her father). he). Thus it becomes more obvious that Stephen, too, in his one-day wandering might be in search of a consuming father. Blades believes that Joyce’s quoting the sentence “I am the spirit of your father” causes Mr Bloom to add “further weight to the suggestion that he symbolizes some 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 the 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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