Joyce, James - Ulysses (7)

Modern novel

Ulysses is the antihero, according to Joyce there’s no more value in him. He is a man

completely different from a greck hero. There’s no division between past, present and

future, you can’t distinguish period of time. The reality is obliging you to describe the

routine but it’s not interesting. You continuously remember other scene, emotion and

people. Create a new style in writing. The narration is continuously interrupted. Thanks

to psychological analysis and war nothing of the previous age continued to live.

Everybody is experiencing the same. They are able to communicate their condition but

emotion are not enough. Feelings and memory to describe the new situation. Future is

obscure, time has no meaning. It’s describe a moment of being not a sequence of

actions. Freud and his theory influenced author, there’s the possibility to investigate

mind. Dreams are analyzed to understand what there’s in mind. Mind of people is

broken because there are the effects of the war. Memory where preserved, memories

continued to influence adults. Subjective way to see the reality. The traditional scheme

is not respected, there are different way to measure time. You can’t give a structure to

time. Time units doesn’t exist. This happens thanks to the arrive of psyco analysis.

Progress in what makes people paralyzed and they don’t believe in future.

“Eveline” by James Joyce

Form and way of writing are representative of the artist. The artist has not the job to

persuade the readers or share emotions, his job consist on makes people see, in an

impersonal way, what is inside the mind of character. Nothing is narrated. Self-

explanatory: explain itself; the work of art is what is able to explain itself. There are

different emotions and different characters. They have no chance in their existence.

What is changing in the modern époque. These persons are paralyzed. Eveline is

paralyzed because there’s no value to believe in. Eveline has the desire to escape

from her house. She is afraid of her future, her future has no chance, she is mentally

paralyzed. Everybody has a different perception of reality and the future is uncertain.

We are able to see what Eveline sees. There’s a limited social tradition and culture, it’s

impossible to change. Ugliness of the period. They can’t realize their desire because

Dublin is the centre of the paralysis. Life in Dublin is impossible, people is suffocated.

She has not good condition because she’s not experiencing something interesting.

“Dusty cretonne” nothing brilliant in her life. She was tired, physical fatigue. A kind of

melancholy. Words are linking to describe the experience of Eveline when she was a

child. “Now” is used as a connector. She wanted to live her home. Unhappiness is a

condition lived by Dubliners and there’s no possibility to change. “Home” is the place

she wants to leave. In this house she was responsible, she go on doing the same

things every day. Eveline is confused but it’s reinforcing her decision to go away. A

friend of her father went to Melbourne, there’s a photo of him. He is the result of what

Eveline is thinking of. He is a hero because is one who has the courage to go away

from Dublin. She is confused again about the idea of leaving her family. Eveline is

unable to decide. She is unable to see the lights in her future. No solution came out.

The past happiness future is obscured and present is condemning her. Her mother died

and she has responsibility. The responsibility was condemning her. General condition=

Eveline’s condition. The other Dubliners are not different from Eveline. Everybody is

judging her, conditioning her life. People condemning the other. There’s no dialogue,

no relationship, everyone is unable to speak. Communication was impossible. Eveline

doesn’t think about the city where she lives but there’s only the idea of go away.

Future is a possible risk. Frank is a hope for a better future. Their relationship is only

based on material things. Frank is the chance to change life. She is fascinated,

concentrated on him. Pleasant situation for her. Eveline is fascinated by Frank because