Circe's Inferno

By Vivian Yuxin Wen / While chocolate has become a ubiquitous and largely affordable commodity for the modern readers, it is coded with a...

By Vivian Yuxin Wen / “The sins of the past” represents one example of the abstract mental sequences that are materialized, transformed...

By Vivian Yuxin Wen / “Corsets for men.” — “The Nymph” In Ulysses, corset manifests itself both as a marker for feminine fashion of the...

By Vivian Yuxin Wen / In “Circe,” monetary images associated with Stephen appear in the physical form of “banknote (Joyce, 453),” “silken...

“THE VOICE OF ALL THE BLESSED: Alleluia, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!” (Joyce 489) While the bible, or as it stands here, the...

“(Kevin Egan of Paris in black Spanish tasseled shirt and peep-o-day boy’s hat signs to Stephen.) KEVIN EGAN: Bonjour! The vieille...

“STEPHEN: (Cracking his fingers impatiently) Quick! Quick! Where’s my augur’s rod? (He runs to the piano and takes his ashplant, beating...

“THE MOTHER: Years and years I loved you, O, my son, my firstborn, when you lay in my womb” (Joyce 474). Oh, the womb. So many potential...

“A stout fox drawn from covert, brush pointed, having buried his grandmother, runs swift for the open, brighteyed, seeking badger earth,...

“BLOOM: (To the redcoat) We fought for you in South Africa, Irish missile troops. Isn’t that history? Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Honoured by...

By Grant Wei Bloom surveys uncertainly the three whores then gazes at the veiled mauve light, hearing the everflying moth. The moth,...

(Thirtytwo workmen, wearing rosettes, from all the counties of Ireland, under the guidance of Derwan the builder, construct the new...

By Grant Wei (Bloom assumes a mantle of cloth of gold and puts on a ruby ring. He ascends and stands on the stone of destiny. The...

By Grant Wei (General commotion and compassion. Women faint. A wealthy American makes a street collection for Bloom. Gold and silver...

By Grant Wei A cannonshot. The man in the macintosh disappears. Bloom with his sceptre strikes down poppies. The instantaneous deaths of...

By Grant Wei (Midnight chimes from distant steeples.) THE CHIMES: Turn again, Leopold! Lord mayor of Dublin! The midnight chimes,...

By Vivian Yuxin Wen / Here comes the ultimate Homeric reference of the “Circe” chapter: located in the brothel on 82 Lower Tyrone Street,...

By Vivian Yuxin Wen/ Given the extensive dialogue between the Nymph and Bloom in the middle section of “Circe” (Joyce, 444-451), it is...

Our first introduction to the relationship dynamics between Bloom and Molly occurs when Bloom asks her what she wants for breakfast and...

During the previous night, Bloom had “a strange fancy of his dame Mrs Moll with red slippers on in a pair of Turkey trunks”, which...