Nausicaa (part 2): James Joyce's Ulysses for Beginners #48
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Nausicaa (part 2) is explained by Adam Savage in his life-altering "Ulysses for Beginners" series.
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Great video as ever. I like the point about Gerty being confident she could convert Bloom to Catholicism and also her perception that he is not a Catholic. I always took that to be a reference to the fact that Bloom converted to Catholicism to marry Molly. I prefer your take on it. It gives Gerty more presence as a character.
I hadn't considered that. With that conversion, it's hard to imagine Molly being as insistent about it as Gerty. More likely just a show of forms for both Molly and Leopold. He's great at adapting to exterior customs as he needs to, and seems disinterested in labels ("Those are names"). Reminds me of the shape-shifting aspect of Proteus - also at Sandymount Strand!
@@AdamSavagelandGood point about the shape shifting especially due to the location. Mr. Bloom has to do a lot of that being effectively an outsider in Dublin/Ireland despite being Irish. The conversation might be just a show of form but at that time it would have been strictly required for them to marry. The Catholic Church ruled so much of Ireland up until fairly recently.
@@ksmith169 Why do you guys think Joyce would connect Proteus with Nausicaa by putting them in the same location? Bloom says "Funny my watch stopped at half past four" - which would be between Scylla & Charybdis and Wondering Rocks in Linati's Schema. Does it have something to do with both Proteus and Scylla & Charybdis being about Aristotle? The ineluctable modality of the visible: Bloom changing his outlook on women?
@@davidsoael615 Hi David. Good to hear from another Joycean. The truth is I don't know but Mr. Bloom is at the end of Sandymount Strand. This where Stephen Dedalus walks into eternity and contemplates the ineluctable modality of the visible and of being. Joyce was almost fully blind for most of his life so a lot of the book contemplates vision or lock of. The blind stripling piano tuner for example. Stephen walks into eternity a little earlier as Mr Bloom sees him walking from the funeral carriage on the way to Paddy Dignams funeral. Mr. Bloom at this point is on the way to Dignams Widow to help with the life insurance etc. It is definitely all connected to the Greek myths. Mr Blooms changing attitudes towards women really comes in the Night Town chapter. I found this chapter horrifying. The change/transformation is also hard to see/spot.
Ha, that "twins" prophecy was a true LOL. Well spotted 🙂