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.Ellmann, Richard, Ulysses on the Liffey, Oxford University Press, 1986, , pp. 186-188. The schema has been split into two tables for better ease of reading. Title Time Colour People Science / Art Meaning Telemachus 8 — 9 a.m. Gold / whiteTelemachus Mentor Antinous Suitors Penelope Theology Dispossessed son in contest Nestor 9 — 10 a.m. BrownTelemachus Nestor Pisistratus Helen History The wisdom of the ancients Proteus 10 — 11 a.m. GreenTelemachus Proteus Menelaus Helen Megapenthes Philology Primal matter Calypso 8 — 9 a.m. OrangeCalypso Penelope Ulysses Callidice Mythology The departing wayfarer Lotus Eaters 9 — 10 a.m. Dark brownEurylochus Polites Ulysses Nausicaa Chemistry The temptation of faith Hades 11 a.m. — 12 noon Black-whiteUlysses Elpenor Ajax Agamemnon Hercules Eriphyle Sisyphus Orion Laertes etc. Prometheus Cerberus Tiresias Hades Proserpina Telemachus Antinous - The descent into nothingness Aeolus 12 noon — 1 p.m. RedAeolus Sons Telemachus Mentor Ulysses Rhetoric The derision of victory Lestrygonians 1 — 2 p.m. Blood redAntiphates The seductive daughter Ulysses Architecture Despondency Scylla and Charybdis 2 — 3 p.m. -Scylla Charybdis Telemachus Ulysses Antinous Literature The double-edge sword Wandering Rocks 3 — 4 p.m. RainbowObjects Places Forces Ulysses Mechanics The hostile milieu Sirens 4 — 5 p.m. CoralLeucothea Parthenope Ulysses Orpheus Menelaus Argonauts Music The sweet deceit Cyclops 5 — 6 p.m. GreenPrometheus Noman Galatea Ulysses Surgery Egocidal terror Nausicaa 8 — 9 p.m. GreyNausicaa Handmaidens Alcinous Arete Ulysses Painting The projected mirage Oxen of the Sun 10pm - 11pm WhiteLampetie Phaethusa Helios Hyperion Jove Ulysses Physics The eternal herds Circe 11 p.m. — 12 midnight VioletCirce The Swine Telemachus Ulysses Hermes Dance The man-hating ogress Eumaeus 12 midnight — 1 a.m. -Eumaeus Ulysses Telemachus The Bad Goatherd Pseudangelos - The ambush on home ground Ithaca 1 — 2 a.m. -Ulysses Telemachus Eurycleia The suitors - Armed hope Penelope -Ulysses Laertes 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 Cemetery, 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 -
See also Gilbert schema for Ulysses
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