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in the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, unwound, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free. - vladimir nabokov. jew, represents ulysses, whom joyce believed to be the “most complete man in literature” and “the only all-round character” because he is shown in all his contradictions of valor and vice. the novel is set on june 16, 1904, as stephen dedalus (almost 2 years hallucinate, and reveal their subconscious in a soulful discussion, bloom goes to bed with his wife molly (having an affair with blazes boylon), whose 8-sentence “monologue” finishes the novel. from 1914 to 1918 – the period of the war (think of what yeats was writing…). variously banned on charges of obscenity. among the first “stream-of-consciousness” novels, it mixes the real and the imagined to accurately, if confusingly, reveal the psyche of the narrators, so that “the symbolic aspect of the novel is at least as important as the realistic aspect.” essentially, stephen searches for a father (simon dedalus is artistically stunted and emotionally unavailable) and bloom for a son (rudy is dead). note the correlations between leopold bloom and odysseus, molly bloom and penelope, and stephen dedalus and telemachus. some of the novel’s many themes are encounters in his reading and that arises repeatedly through the course of the novel, is a good word with which to relate the novel to faceting. it refers to the difference of position of one object when seen from two different vantage points, which is the project of the the opening: “stately, plump buck mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. a the ending: “.. . and gibraltar as a gi*l where i was a flower of the mountain yes when i put the rose in my hair like the andalusian gi*ls used or shall i wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the moorish wall and i thought well as well him as another and then i asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would i yes to say yes my mountain flower and first i put my arms around him