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GCorso Denotative analysis of Molly's final monologue
by GCorso - (2011-01-25)
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I'm going to analyse an extract taken from Ulysses  written by James Joyce. The extract is Molly's final monologue: she is Leopold Bloom's wife and her real name is Marion Bloom.

She is alone in bed at night thinking about lots of things. The author adopts the stream of consciousness: all thoughts are reported without using punctuation. As a consequence the result is chaotic: it is very difficult to understand all the conjectures between her thoughts.

Molly refers to her past, her present and her future, but events are not in a linear way.

She thinks about: what people are doing in China; what are the nuns doing; flowers; about tomorrow and her husband, about  planning tomorrow, about religion. She reflects about God, atheists and people who have a bad coscience. Subsequently she thinks about  the past, especially about a long kiss between her and Leopold and his nice words.