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RContin - J. Joyce's
by RContin - (2011-01-17)
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The extract I'm going to analyse is from James Joyce's “Ulysses”. The extract is Molly Bloom's final monolgue. The main character of the story is Leopold Bloom and Molly (her real name is Marion) is his wife. To develop the story Joyce uses the technique of the stream of consciousness. This brought to a sort of chaos, because there's no punctuation and the flow of character's thoughts goes on without stopping. The plot develops in Molly's bed, where she's thinking about a lot of things, like what people in China and the nuns are doing in that moment. She'd like to doze off but she continuously thinks about flowers, the day after and her husband and she makes a plan: she would like to clean and to do the place up. Molly's thoughts are related to various things, but the most of them are linked to nature, like mountains, country with fields of oats and wheat, sea, waves, the cattle, lakes and rivers. She thinks again about flowers and after that she makes a reflection about God and atheists. At the end Molly reflects about his relation with Leopold and, especially, she remembers a long kiss between them of 16 years ago and Leopold's nice words while she was looking outside the window thinking about other men ("many things he didn't know").