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James Joyce/Ulysses, Chapter 2

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A 6 page essay that examines the second chapter ("Nestor") in James Joyce's Ulysses. The writer argues that the second chapter of Ulysses pictures Stephen Dedalus as a history instructor. Analysis of the beginning of this chapter is revealing concerning how Joyce saw the relationship between history and memory, as filtered through Stephen's perception. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

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of consciousness narrative and much more. The entire novel takes place on a single day, June 16, 1904, and loosely follows the episodes in Homers Odyssey. While other characters are introduced in Ulysses, the novel continues the story of Stephen Dedalus, a character that Joyce created in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The second chapter of Ulysses pictures Stephen as a history instructor. Analysis of the beginning of this chapter is revealing concerning how Joyce saw the relationship between history and memory, as filtered through Stephens perception. To the student, in regards to the use of an additional source: While you did not request additional sources, the addition of Rickards comments greatly adds to this research as this article informed this writer of certain allusions that Joyce assumed that his readers would recognize. If you do not wish to refer to Rickard, this source can be left out when you compose your paper from this research. However, if you, like this writer, did not have knowledge of these allusions, such as who "Nestor" was in the Odyssey, then you should include the Rickard reference as the source of this information. Rickard (1997) argues that Joyce means for his readers to see Stephen in relation to the how his character was established in A Portrait. In the previous novel, Joyce pictured Stephen as being abused by his priest/teachers and learning to distrust authority. Despite the sense that Stephen exhibited at the end of A Portrait, which is that he had grown beyond his teachers, at the beginning of Ulysses, Stephen is not only under the authority of Mr. Deasy, the pompous schoolmaster, but also a figure of authority himself to his classroom of boys. In the first chapter of Ulysses, ...

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