Helios (Part II): A Journey To The Land Of The Whispering Wind

This comical insightful use of history to reflect the ideal of the relative. Is it no accident of fate that Joyce uses the technique of the Platonic dialogue to convey this death of absolution? One of the most beautiful qualities of this novel is that not only does Joyce use literary metaphor along with that of symbolism, but that he experiments with different literary techniques within the scope of the epic narrative form. Joyce is able to weave forms inside of forms, as a spider spins her web; adding to an enchantment of the enhancement of the subconscous free-form narrative; for in the age of postmodernistic thought, all the rules of classicism had been broken, all meter and form thrown out of the window, the open window of perception. Still, Joyce seemed to be leading the reader towards the source of mystery to be found inside the pages of Ulysses, and the major dilemma facing modern man at the beginning of the twentieth century. As this new man wandered around his landscape searching to fill the void of emptiness left in the heart of man created by a loss of spiritual abscence, Joyce pointed to the beginning saying that the final answer lay in the world of naturalism, where the depressing depths of his search had originally began. Grasping this was the key to the meaning.

"Joyce built relativism and its problems into both the "content and the form" of Ulysses. Stephen is bothered by relativism, and the incertitude that comes with it. He is destressed by his lack of a structural principal---a father-- whether as God, as a vital and usable literary, spiritual, and moral....." (9)

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