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This schema, or explanatory outline, for the novel Ulysses was produced by its author, James Joyce, in 1920 in order to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book. The schema has been split into two tables for better ease of reading.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Title
! Time
! Colour
! People
! Science / Art
! Meaning
|-
| Telemachus
| 8 — 9 a.m.
| Gold / white
|
- Telemachus
- Mentor
- Antinous
- Suitors
- Penelope
| Theology
| Dispossessed son in contest
|-
| Nestor
| 9 — 10 a.m.
| Brown
|
- Telemachus
- Nestor
- Pisistratus
- Helen
| History
| The wisdom of the ancients
|-
| Proteus
| 10 — 11 a.m.
| Green
|
- Telemachus
- Proteus
- Menelaus
- Helen
- Megapenthes
| Philology
| Primal matter
|-
| Calypso
| 8 — 9 a.m.
| Orange
|
- Calypso
- Penelope
- Ulysses
- Callidice
| Mythology
| The departing wayfarer
|-
| Lotus Eaters
| 9 — 10 a.m.
| Dark brown
|
- Eurylochus
- Polites
- Ulysses
- Nausicaa
| Chemistry
| The temptation of faith
|-
| Hades
| 11 a.m. — 12 noon
| Black-white
|
- Ulysses
- Elpenor
- Ajax
- Agamemnon
- Hercules
- Eriphyle
- Sisyphus
- Orion
- Laertes etc.
- Prometheus
- Cerberus
- Tiresias
- Hades
- Proserpina
- Telemachus
- Antinous
| -
| The descent into nothingness
|-
| Aeolus
| 12 noon — 1 p.m.
| Red
|
- Aeolus
- Sons
- Telemachus
- Mentor
- Ulysses
| Rhetoric
| The derision of victory
|-
| Lestrygonians
| 1 — 2 p.m.
| Blood red
|
- Antiphates
- The seductive daughter
- Ulysses
| Architecture
| Despondency
|-
| Scylla and Charybdis
| 2 — 3 p.m.
| -
|
- Scylla
- Charybdis
- Telemachus
- Ulysses
- Antinous
| Literature
| The double-edge sword
|-
| Wandering Rocks
| 3 — 4 p.m.
| Rainbow
|
- Objects
- Places
- Forces
- Ulysses
| Mechanics
| The hostile milieu
|-
| Sirens
| 4 — 5 p.m.
| Coral
|
- Leucothea
- Parthenope
- Ulysses
- Orpheus
- Menelaus
- Argonauts
| Music
| The sweet deceit
|-
| Cyclops
| 5 — 6 p.m.
| Green
|
- Prometheus
- Noman
- Galatea
- Ulysses
| Surgery
| Egocidal terror
|-
| Nausicaa
| 8 — 9 p.m.
| Grey
|
- Nausicaa
- Handmaidens
- Alcinous
- Arete
- Ulysses
| Painting
| The projected mirage
|-
| Oxen of the Sun
| 10pm - 11pm
| White
|
- Lampetie
- Phaethusa
- Helios Hyperion
- Jove
- Ulysses
| Physics
| The eternal herds
|-
| Circe
| 11 p.m. — 12 midnight
| Violet
|
- Circe
- The Swine
- Telemachus
- Ulysses
- Hermes
| Dance
| The man-hating ogress
|-
| Eumaeus
| 12 midnight — 1 a.m.
| -
|
- Eumaeus
- Ulysses
- Telemachus
- The Bad Goatherd
- Pseudangelos
| -
| The ambush on home ground
|-
| Ithaca
| 1 — 2 a.m.
| -
|
- Ulysses
- Telemachus
- Eurycleia
- The suitors
| -
| Armed hope
|-
| Penelope
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| -
|
- Ulysses
- Laertes
- Penelope
| -
| The past sleeps
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Title
! Technic
! Organ
! Symbols
|-
| Telemachus
| Dialogue for three and four,
narration,
soliloquy
| -
| Hamlet, Ireland, Stephen
|-
| Nestor
| Dialogue for 2,
narration,
soliloquy
| -
| Ulster, woman, practical sense
|-
| Proteus
| Soliloquy
| -
| World, tide, Moon, evolution, metamorphosis
|-
| Calypso
| Dialogue for 2,
soliloquy
| Kidneys
| Vagina, exile, nymph, Israel in captivity
|-
| Lotus Eaters
| Dialogue, prayer, soliloquy
| Skin
| Host, penis in the bath, froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats
|-
| Hades
| Dialogue, narration
| Heart
| Cemetery, sacred heart, the past, the unknown man, the unconscious, heart defect, relics, heartbreak
|-
| Aeolus
| Simbouleutike, dikanike, epideictic, tropes
| Lungs
| Machines, wind, fame, kite, failed destinies, the press, mutability
|-
| Lestrygonians
| Peristaltic prose
| Oesophagus
| Bloody sacrifice,
food,
shame
|-
| Scylla and Charybdis
| Whirlpools
| Brain
| Hamlet,
Shakespeare,
Christ,
Socrates,
London,
Stratford,
scholasticism,
mysticism,
Plato,
Aristotle,
youth,
maturity
|-
| Wandering Rocks
| Shifting labyrinth between two shores
| Blood
| Caesar,
Christ,
errors,
homonyms,
synchronisms,
resemblances
|-
| Sirens
| Fuga per canonem
| Ear
| Promises,
female,
sounds,
embellishments
|-
| Cyclops
| Alternating asymmetry
| Muscles, bones
| Nation,
state,
religion,
dynasty,
idealism,
exaggeration,
fanaticism,
collectivity
|-
| Nausicaa
| Retrogressive progression
| Eye, nose
| Onanism,
feminine,
hypocrisy
|-
| Oxen of the Sun
| Prose, embryo, foetus, birth
| Matrix, uterus
| Fertilisation,
frauds,
parthenogenesis
|-
| Circe
| Exploding vision
| Locomotor apparatus, skeleton
| Zoology,
personification,
pantheism,
magic,
poison,
antidote,
reel
|-
| Eumaeus
| Relaxed prose
| Nerves
| -
|-
| Ithaca
| Dialogue, pacified style, fusion
| Juices
| -
|-
| Penelope
| Monologue, resigned style
| Fat
| -
|}
See also
- Gilbert schema for Ulysses
Notes
References
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