James Joyce presents Leopold Bloom as a major character in his novel Ulysses. His life presented in Uysses corresponds to the mentally and morally paralysed lives which are portrayed in his early collection of stories Dubliners. The causes of the mentally and morally paralysed lives of Irish people insistently described by Joyce are quite various. First of all, Ireland is politically the colony of English imperialism. Other causes include the degradations of Catholicism and the corruptions of Irish nationalism. Joyce is surrounded by these Irish negative realities. Therefore, he continually reveals them in his works. They are especially well presented in Ulysses. Leopold Bloom also lives a frustrated life in these Irish negative realities. Joyce reveals them and presents Bloom`s internal conflicts and the way he overcomes them in Ulysses. Joyce conducts many experiments on forms in not only revealing these Irish negative realities but presenting Bloom`s internal conflicts and the processes of his overcoming them. He develops the plot by various narrative methods and tries his technical, stylistic and linguistic experiments in presenting what he wants to communicate. He doesn`t necessarily depend on the method of narrative continuity produced by linear development of the plot. He develops the plot by producing the discontinuity of narrative through many technical, stylistic and linguistic experiments. This thesis examines how Joyce effectively reveals his negative realities and how he presents Bloom`s internal conflicts and the processes of his solving them in Irish negative realities through his experiments on forms in "Sirens" and "Cyclops" Joyce`s new writing methods derive from his country`s negative situations. Ulysses written in innovative techniques is a result from Joyce`s desire to save his country from its negative situations. Finally, Joyce tries to create the new narratives different from the existing narratives of Ireland and newly create his country`s history for the afflicted Irish people. |