The new society is unable to have heroes with values: the new Ulysses is a normal man. Molly is the new Penelope but isn't like her: is unfaithful with her husband. The various part of the city (Dublin) are referred to the steps of the trip of Ulysses. Stephen Dedalus the protagonist of the autobiography made by Joyce represent in this novel Telemaco, the son of Ulysses.
Use of Stream of Consciousness as the main technique of Joyce: the last 40 pages are a unique stream of consciousness of Molly. The outside is narrated with the third person, the inside with stream of consciousness.
Parallelism between past and present: contemporary society is a decline in modern society (Joyce wrote this after the First World War). Joyce has used the Myth to give a view of the contemporary society: give order and sense. In Ulysses the creation of words, the rythm, the sounds are very important in the composition of the novel. It's written in prose fiction but in some parts there are poethical passages with rhyme schemes and specific sounds.
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