The second climax comes when Bloom returns to his bedroom at home to find proof of Molly’s adultery and to mentally prepare for Blazes Boylan’s threat (Episode Seventeen).

Climax: When Bloom takes care of Stephen during his argument with Private Carr at the end of Episode Fifteen.

Tense: Ulysses uses a mix of past and present tense.

Perspective and Narrator: ‘Ulysses’ is told in both third-person and first-person narration.

Protagonist(s): Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom.

Setting (Place): Dublin, Ireland, and its surrounding suburbs.

Publisher: First serially in The Little Review as a novel by Shakespeare & Company.

Date Of First Publication: Individual episodes were published serially starting in 1918 as a novel, it was first published in 1922.

Time And Place Written: Trieste, Italy Zurich, Switzerland Paris 1914–1921.

Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom travel around Dublin on June 16, 1904, before going back to Bloom’s house, according to James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’. The story of Odysseus’ journey home to the island of Ithaca to reunite with his son Telemachus and wife Penelope is told in Homer’s epic poem. The Greek epic poem ‘The Odyssey’, credited to poet Homer, features the hero Odysseus, whose name is spelled in Latin as ‘Ulysses’. It is divided into ‘episodes’, named after portions of the ‘Odyssey’.

‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce is a rendition of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’, set in Dublin, Ireland.

Ulises by James Joyce