Is Ulysses An Epic Or A Novel

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Ulysses has been called both an epic and a novel. What are some of the features of both, and how does Ulysses conform to either? Would you say Ulysses is an epic or a novel? Ulysses is a story about the city of Dublin’s, it contains the secrets of its fellow townspeople and establishes the ability to allow the reader to consider that they are in some way connected to the themes of the lifestyles. It’s a story about living, eating, drinking and sexual encounters and affairs, it elaborates on a vast range of memories in which the main characters lives are lived. It also structures around the joys that come out of lives darkest points and basically shows how to be young and the ways to consider middle aged life. In literature there are three moods of fiction, the epic, the dramatic and the novelistic (Old and Sold, Para 1). “Joyce uses The Odyssey as a loose structural framework for his book, arranging the characters and events around Homer’s epic model, with Bloom as Ulysses, Stephen as his “son” Telemachus, and Molly as “faithful” Penelope” (Hubpages, para 6). Joyce wanted Ulysses to be an epic and an adventure while serving as an encyclopaedia (Hubpages, para 2). The author James Joyce according to his mental attitude to life cast his stories of Ulysses in epic, dramatic and novelistic mood and in order to understand his way of interpretation it is important to justify the differences between each written style (Old and Sold, Para 3). The novel was developed late in literature history, at the time after the writing styles had replaced verses as the accepted method for a narrative. Therefore the novel began to be regarded as an important style of literature (Old and Sold, Para 20). There are three characteristics that distinguish the novel from other genres. Its stylistic and multi-language concepts, the dramatic changes in effects to enhance readers visual
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