B-LOU-msday: 18 Penelope - a chapter synopsis in under 10m скачать в хорошем качестве

B-LOU-msday: 18 Penelope - a chapter synopsis in under 10m

Part eighteen of a series of short synopses of the Chapters of Ulysses, with some odds and ends that occur to me thinking on the chapter. If you can afford it, please do support this, and my other on- and off- line projects at   / martinfrenchtheatre   - sign up by the end of June 2020, and I will record something for your answerphone or personal enjoyment. My professional FB page is to be found here -   / martinfrenchtheatre   EPISODE 18. Penelope TIME – ∞ SCENE – Bed – COLOUR – Starry, Milky, Dawn TECHNIQUE – Monologue (female) CORRESPONDENCES – Earth – Penelope Movement – web SCIENCE / ART – None MEANING – The past sleeps ORGAN – Fat SYMBOLS – Earth OTHER CHARACTERS – Memories PLOT – Yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City Arms hotel when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting Bloom has fallen asleep and Molly is thinking her thoughts awake and beside him. She is kind of annoyed that he said that he wants breakfast in bed, as he hasn’t asked for that before. She knows that he has been lying to her, and is fairly sure that he has had sex during the day, though does not realise that he had in fact masturbated instead. She enjoys thinking back to her afternoon session with Boylan, their multiple bouts, and on falling asleep exhausted after he departs. She dwells for a spell on her life in Gibraltar as a young woman. She regrets Bloom’s cold feet, and he himself and his various plans in many ways. She confesses to a fear of being alone in the house overnight. Her period starts to her annoyance. She thinks about Stephen, and how he showed up in her tarot cards, and how she might seduce him. Ultimately, she rejects Boylan as lacking refinement or manners. She wishes she was a man in some ways, loathes how there is a double standard applied to her for her sexual appetites. She is frustrated with Bloom on many levels. Nevertheless, she returns to thoughts of Bloom, of his marriage proposal, and his love for her, and perhaps her’s for him, as she ends the book on a very positive Yes. ODDS & ENDS As we come to read the last chapter, take solace that we only have to read 8 sentences to finish. There is a solitary full stop, and these 8 sentences take over 24,000 words to complete. It is like Joyce said to himself, what can I do to top what has gone before. It is a monster, and easy to get lost in, as – like the infinity symbol Joyce chose for the time of setting, it revolves upon itself back and forth repeatedly. It is dense, but there is a journey that we can follow here After all, this is the destination the novel arrives at – the novel being one of the most intricately plotted and executed novels of all time. So, seeing as Bloom has been speculating all day about her and Boylan, it is fitting that we get clarification on all. For a book that can be seen as a scripture of love, the focus of so much of our protagonist’s love should have her speech. In this, she is much more like a Goddess at the end of a Greek play, than a mere mortal woman, who has in some ways an objective understanding. There is a ton to unpack in the chapter, and this was meant to be 5 minutes, so I am going to just latch onto this one point in particular: her thoughts of Stephen. This echoes what Bloom has been trying to do already to supplant Boylan with Stephen in Molly’s world. Bloom and Stephen both have something more than Boylan does in terms of what she wants in her life – Stephen has poetry, while Bloom has manners. She enjoys the idea of the scandal, and toys with the idea of him as her in-house lover. There is also a very interesting moment where we see her wishing she was a man, considering what it might be like for a change to get beyond the daily repression within society, and to experience what that would be like. She is a woman throughout who is aware and confident of her sexual appetite from when she was young, and within the world of Ireland and the Empire at this time, she was going to be treated as a whore for that. Little did we realise that in criticism of the novel over the years, that would still from time to time continue to be the case. Selected Sources Ulysses, by James Joyce Romping Through Ulysses, from At It Again www.ulyssesguide.com www.joyceproject.com Music in this video Song: Love's Old Sweet Song Artist: John McCormack Album: The Legendary John McCormack Licensed to YouTube by: INgrooves (on behalf of Emerald); EMI Music Publishing, Public Domain Compositions, BMG Rights Management (US), LLC, and 1 Music Rights Societies