Ulysses cover
Ulysses cover

This schema, or explanatory outline, for the novel Ulysses was produced by its author, James Joyce, in 1920 in order to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book. The schema has been split into two tables for better ease of reading.

TitleTimeColourPeopleScience / ArtMeaning
Telemachus8 — 9 a.m.Gold / whiteTelemachus Mentor Antinous Suitors PenelopeTheologyDispossessed son in contest
Nestor9 — 10 a.m.BrownTelemachus Nestor Pisistratus HelenHistoryThe wisdom of the ancients
Proteus10 — 11 a.m.GreenTelemachus Proteus Menelaus Helen MegapenthesPhilologyPrimal matter
Calypso8 — 9 a.m.OrangeCalypso Penelope Ulysses CallidiceMythologyThe departing wayfarer
Lotus Eaters9 — 10 a.m.Dark brownEurylochus Polites Ulysses NausicaaChemistryThe temptation of faith
Hades11 a.m. — 12 noonBlack-whiteUlysses Elpenor Ajax Agamemnon Hercules Eriphyle Sisyphus Orion Laertes etc. Prometheus Cerberus Tiresias Hades Proserpina Telemachus Antinous-The descent into nothingness
Aeolus12 noon — 1 p.m.RedAeolus Sons Telemachus Mentor UlyssesRhetoricThe derision of victory
Lestrygonians1 — 2 p.m.Blood redAntiphates The seductive daughter UlyssesArchitectureDespondency
Scylla and Charybdis2 — 3 p.m.-Scylla Charybdis Telemachus Ulysses AntinousLiteratureThe double-edge sword
Wandering Rocks3 — 4 p.m.RainbowObjects Places Forces UlyssesMechanicsThe hostile milieu
Sirens4 — 5 p.m.CoralLeucothea Parthenope Ulysses Orpheus Menelaus ArgonautsMusicThe sweet deceit
Cyclops5 — 6 p.m.GreenPrometheus Noman Galatea UlyssesSurgeryEgocidal terror
Nausicaa8 — 9 p.m.GreyNausicaa Handmaidens Alcinous Arete UlyssesPaintingThe projected mirage
Oxen of the Sun10pm - 11pmWhiteLampetie Phaethusa Helios Hyperion Jove UlyssesPhysicsThe eternal herds
Circe11 p.m. — 12 midnightVioletCirce The Swine Telemachus Ulysses HermesDanceThe man-hating ogress
Eumaeus12 midnight — 1 a.m.-Eumaeus Ulysses Telemachus The Bad Goatherd Pseudangelos-The ambush on home ground
Ithaca1 — 2 a.m.-Ulysses Telemachus Eurycleia The suitors-Armed hope
Penelope∞ {\displaystyle \infty }-Ulysses Laertes Penelope-The past sleeps
TitleTechnicOrganSymbols
TelemachusDialogue for three and four, narration, soliloquy-Hamlet, Ireland, Stephen
NestorDialogue for 2, narration, soliloquy-Ulster, woman, practical sense
ProteusSoliloquy-World, tide, Moon, evolution, metamorphosis
CalypsoDialogue for 2, soliloquyKidneysVagina, exile, nymph, Israel in captivity
Lotus EatersDialogue, prayer, soliloquySkinHost, penis in the bath, froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats
HadesDialogue, narrationHeartCemetery, sacred heart, the past, the unknown man, the unconscious, heart defect, relics, heartbreak
AeolusSimbouleutike, dikanike, epideictic, tropesLungsMachines, wind, fame, kite, failed destinies, the press, mutability
LestrygoniansPeristaltic proseOesophagusBloody sacrifice, food, shame
Scylla and CharybdisWhirlpoolsBrainHamlet, Shakespeare, Christ, Socrates, London, Stratford, scholasticism, mysticism, Plato, Aristotle, youth, maturity
Wandering RocksShifting labyrinth between two shoresBloodCaesar, Christ, errors, homonyms, synchronisms, resemblances
SirensFuga per canonemEarPromises, female, sounds, embellishments
CyclopsAlternating asymmetryMuscles, bonesNation, state, religion, dynasty, idealism, exaggeration, fanaticism, collectivity
NausicaaRetrogressive progressionEye, noseOnanism, feminine, hypocrisy
Oxen of the SunProse, embryo, foetus, birthMatrix, uterusFertilisation, frauds, parthenogenesis
CirceExploding visionLocomotor apparatus, skeletonZoology, personification, pantheism, magic, poison, antidote, reel
EumaeusRelaxed proseNerves-
IthacaDialogue, pacified style, fusionJuices-
PenelopeMonologue, resigned styleFat-

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