I am going to analyse the extract of Molly Bloom's Monologue according to the main features of the writing technique of Modernism. The features that we can find analysing a modernist text are the following:

• Ø How things are said
• Ø Minimum plot
• Ø Focus on the psychology
• Ø Narrator's eclipse
• Ø Shift of the point of view
• Ø Poetical language

In the monologue taken from Joyce's Ulysses, the reader understands that things are said in the way that are thought without the filter of the narrator. So, the reader can make a personal idea about the character and he feels as if he were in the character's mind. Thoughts, feelings and things are reported in the way that allows more freedom to the reader and he or she can see how is really the character.

In addition we know that Ulysses is a novel which tells a story that develops itself during a day (on the 16^th of June 1904). So the plot is reduced to the minimum because for modernists what you say is less important than how is say things.

Another aspect that characterises modernist texts is the focus on the psychology. Molly's monologue is the main example of modernist's attention. Joyce tries to report the exact things that Molly is thinking, without the intrusion of the narrator. He writes in first person as if the writer were the character who speaks, he enters into the character's mind to write more real as possible. The focus on psychology is highly connected with the eclipse of the narrator because the writer tries not to put his point of view into the text giving more freedom to the reader. In Molly's Monologue the eclipse is evident, the narrator never intervenes reporting Molly's thoughts and reading the extract it seems that the narrator does not exist.

The shift of the point of view is another narrative technique which permits to the narrator to speak from the point of view of different characters and the reader can make a personal idea of the characters without the intrusion of the narrator; in the monologue of Molly the narrator is a first person narrator who speaks from the point of view of Molly, the effect that it makes into the reader's mind is that it seems the reader is thinking because he or she enters into the character's mind.

Finally I am going to understand why the part of the text in which Molly is thinking is called monologue. But before I have to define what a monologue is. It is when a character speaks his or her thought aloud addressing it to another character or to the audience. So, a question comes natural, why is it called monologue instead soliloquy which is when the character speaks to himself? The incoherence is underlined by the punctuation absence and the absence of an introduction referring to new characters and events. So, Molly's thought may be not considered a thought or stream-of-consciousness because it becomes thoughtless thanks to the absence of the punctuation and the syntactical freedom.