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This schema for the novel Ulysses was produced by Joyce in 1920 to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book. The schema has been split into two subtables for better ease of reading.
Title Time Colour People Science / Art Meaning Telemachus 8am - 9am Gold / white Telemachus Mentor Antinous The Suitors Penelope Theology Dispossessed son in contest Nestor 9am - 10am Brown Telemachus Nestor Pisistratus Helen History The wisdom of the ancients Proteus 10am - 11am Blue Telemachus Proteus Menelaus Helen Megapenthes Philology Primal matter Calypso 8am - 9am Orange Calypso Penelope Ulysses Callidike Mythology The departing wayfarer Lotus Eaters 9am - 10am Dark brown Euryloches Polites Ulysses Nausicaa Chemistry The temptation of faith Hades 11am - 12pm Black -white Ulysses Elpenor Ajax Agamemnon Hercules Eriphyle Sisyphus Orion Laertes etc. Prometheus Cerberus Tiresais Hades Prosperpina Telemachus Antinous - The descent into nothingness Aeolus 12pm - 1pm Red Aeolus Sons Telemachus Mentor Ulysses Rhetoric The derision of victory Lestrygonians 1pm - 2pm Blood red Antiphates The seductive daughter Ulysses Architecture Despondency Scylla and Charybdis 2pm - 3pm - Scylla Charbydis Telemachus Ulysses Antinous Literature The double-edge sword Wandering Rocks 3pm - 4pm Rainbow Objects Places Forces Ulysses Mechanics The hostile milieu Sirens 4pm - 5pm Coral Leucothea Parthenope Ulysses Orpheus Menelaus Argonauts Music The sweet deceit Cyclops 5pm - 6pm Green Prometheus Noman Galatea Ulysses Surgery Egocidal terror Nausicaa 8pm - 9pm 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 11pm - 12am Violet Circe The Swine Telemachus Ulysses Hermes Dance The man-hating ogress Eumaeus 12am - 1am - Eumaeus Ulysses Telemachus The Bad Goatherd Pseudangelos - The ambush on home ground Ithaca 1am - 2am - Ulysses Telemachus Eurycleia The suitors - Armed hope Penelope - - The past sleeps
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 Cemetry, 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 -
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