James Joyce Ulysses- Episode 6: Hades Part 1 of 2
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- There were so many things in this episode to cover that I decided to break it into 2 parts. I hope you enjoy it. Your comments mean a lot to me. Thank you for watching! Let me know if the cemetery tour added to the experience.
Thank you Dr. Goldsmith for not giving up!
Chris Reich
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I’m not sure if you will see this comment, but I am so very grateful for these videos. I’m currently in grad school, and we are studying this book. I have been watching each of your videos twice-once before I read the chapter and once after I finish reading it. It helps me to catch some details that I would probably have overlooked on my own. And you are right, there is a whole lot there, so you couldn’t possibly touch on everything; however, your insight on the Odyssey connection, the basic understanding of the plot of each chapter, and the highlighting of each theme is such valuable information for your viewers. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us!
With respect Mr Reich, Daniel O’Connell, a central figure in Irish history, and known to all Irish people from childhood , is not , as you suggest, “from the 17th century”. His historic contribution to Irish emancipation came in the 19th century. He was born in 1775 and died in 1847.
Thank you for the correction. I was referring to a general time of 1700s and misspoke.
you've got me hooked to this book, never thought i'd even read it. enjoying reading it and videos; so far. thanks...
You made my day. Thank you for your comment. The goal of this project is to bring pleasure. It's not an easy read and not easy to explain. Try telling someone what the book is about! Hades is such an interesting episode. You can really get a feeling for what the characters feel. Bloom's view of death is often very funny. Enjoy the ride. You should be very proud of yourself for breaking through.
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Just reading Ulysses now for the first time along with the guide. I find reading the episode followed with the corresponding guide and then watching your videos on same help tie it all together. Just finished Episode 6 last night. Great videos. Thanks for posting these insights.
Thank you! It's very exciting to see readers grow as they work through the book. If you get some pleasure from the book it will make me happy! Congratulations on your progress. You are well beyond where most readers reach.
You are adorable! I love your personality. Also, great insight, this is really helping me review for my senior course of Ulysses at University.
Thank you so much. Your words are a great encouragement. PLEASE let me know how it goes for you. I'm here to help if I can. Enjoy the book. Art is about stimulating thought and giving us pleasure. The humanities make us human and I am so happy there are people like you who will help keep us human. Take care and thank you so much.
Thank you so much for such amazing videos and your inspiration! I found myself felt in love with Joyce thanks to you! Looking forward to integrating the wisdom into my life! Greetings from Japan.
Really starting to fall in love with this book.
Now that is a beautiful statement. You just made my day. Hades is a fun chapter. There is so much happening and Joyce makes a funeral funny. Bloom's head is a lot more fun in this one...
Chris Reich thanks, Chris - great video, as always! One thing I feel like I’m picking up on is a sense of synchronicity. For example I noticed, going by the timeline in the schema, Bloom reads his letter from Milly at the same time as Mulligan is informed of his brother’s involvement with her. At the funeral, Bloom is just about to process a worrying thought about Blazes Boylan just as Boylan appears before bum. Also, when Stephen on the strand watching the dog digging at the sand, thinking about the riddle of the digging fox, Bloom is at the funeral having similar thoughts. There’s a line in Calypso or Lotus Eaters where Bloom sees someone with a hose or watering can or something and makes the connection between the boy’s actions and the cloud overheard (the same cloud Stephen sees from the Martello Tower by the way) and thinks “as in heaven as it is on earth,” flipping the prayer on its head.
Are the Gods sending Stephen and Bloom “signatures” to be read? Is this synchronicity related to destiny? Are they DESTINED to meet one another?
These little subtle connections are keeping me interested and I’m really starting to love the writing style. I love being in Bloom’s mind and surfing his thoughts. Such a decent guy. His attitude compared to his acquaintances’ at the funeral make me think of a quote from a Sean O’Casey play (Juno and the Paycock I think) -
- “it’s nearly time we had a little less respect for the dead and a little more respect for the living”. Bloom considers the amount of money wasted on a dead body, money which would go to the living. I just thought it was a nice little touch when you consider the way he’s being treated by those around him - little anti Semitic digs, comments about his wife; behind his back at times as well. I wanted to jump on that carriage with him and start roundhouse kicking people in the face. Stephen’s father is a prick by the way. He didn’t come across like that, as much, in Portrait.
I’m not sure if anyone reading this has had this experience yet, but have you found that, when you’re reading Bloom, sometimes your mind rushes ahead based on subtle allusions going through his mind, and you arrive at a thought of his before you read it on the page??? Please don’t tell me it’s just me or I’ll feel like I’m losing my mind.
@@herrklamm1454 I wish I could digest the book enough to notice these connections you're making. Wonderful. No that isnt happening for me in regards to Bloom because I feel like im taking the scope of the book in and finding it hard to go beyond what's happening in the moment. I am finding connections to many different other parts of existence and life but.. havent really pulled a book apart like this before to be able to write stuff out. Thank you for sharing
Sir, I figure Sysiphus is Martin Cunningham, but I am unable to find Tantalus in the episode. Could you help me out here?
I've picked this book up and put it down over a lifetime. Kept picking it up as I thought something is missing without this modernist ' classic'. Then I listened to it on Audiobooks and it came alive. Never laughed aloud so much. Still didn't understand it but enjoyed it because of the brilliance of the narrator. Now I'm listening to you, to understand it and in a way this has become life-changing. I won't go on but suffice to say this doesn't happen much when you're 74 years old. I could say "adorable" but someone beat me to it.
Thank you so very much. John.
Ah! I was wondering what the potato references were about... forgot completely about the Potato Famine.
Of course, with Joyce there are probably 1,000 references tied to the potato in Bloom's pocket!
You enthusiasm for the book is contagious. I wish you included chap numbers bc my text doesn’t have Odyssey titles. Very good series so far tho.
Despite being independent and everyone happy, our best beef still goes abroad - we make do with the " shoe - leather "
My passion for Irish history is coming in handy, but without your help it would be much less useful. Thanks.
I know I'm late to the party but I'm immensely enjoying this video series as I read along. Thank you for making these.
I have just arrived at your channel and started to read Ulysses alongside with your videos. It 's so much fun! Thanks a lot!
ihs does not represent Jesus it is Latin: 'in hoc signo'
Yes, literally it does not. However, the "sign" under which you will conquer is the cross, which in turn is symbolic of Jesus. Thus, it actually is a reference to Jesus. Thank you for commenting. Are you enjoying the book?
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Thank you 🙏🏾
Thanks again for your comments, Chris. Much obliged. Very interesting episode, if you do not get lost in that "Dedalus" of names. Here is something I noticed:
1) An old woman peeps out of the window in her house. Martin Cunningham, Simon Dedalus and Leopold Bloom are inside a carriage. Dignam is in his coffin. We are all in our corpses. The mockery of our existance is layered like an onion, or a matrioshka doll. That is why we all "slop about in slipper-slappers for fear he'd wake". Waking is an unbelivable process, if you look at it from inside. After all we can never know which layer of our existance we are currently living.
2) Bloom thinks " couldn't they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention". This is what not being afraid of death is all about. We are sometimes stuck and paralyzed in our comfort zone. Even a tiny possibility of a change may scare us to "death". Only those who thrive in change, understanding Yin-Yang rotation (in thew end of the chapter there is a reference to traditional chinese elements: earth, fire, water, air...wodden missing...maybe the coffin) are able to Bloom endlessly and reborn from ashes.
3) "a bird sat tamely perched on a poplar branch. Like stuffed". The cemetery is very treacherous indeed. Even animals turn into stone like gazed upon by the Gorgon Medusa.
4) As for Machintosh, well I believe it is the embodiment of the death.
Still have a lot of questions, but I guess I can go a little deeper next time I read it.
Well, you are certainly going deep with this book! We are all on the way to the cemetary, aren't we? But Bloom says, no, this place isn't for him. His place is with the living.
This episode is packed. The characters we meet have a counterpart in Dante's Inferno. It is necessary that our hero descend into Hades to be fortified for life. Notice that Simon breaks down. His place is ready for him and he will get there soon enough. There is so much here that it is easy to lose track of the basic story and what is going on. Again Bloom is disrespected despite being the only respectable member of his party. We see the hero in Bloom in this chapter.
The cattle are off to slaughter in much the same fashion. They too ride a conveyance. A train.
You bring up an interesting idea about Macintosh. He very well could be the embodiment of death. I have long considered that he might be the great surgeon Lister. That remains an open mystery.
I admire your work to get through the novel. Be sure to read for fun. If it becomes work and not fun, relax and don't worry. It is meant to be enjoyed. Have fun and thank you for making such a huge contribution to this project.