ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Garrett Deasy is the headmaster in the school where Stephen Dedalus teaches and is pompous and opinionated. He writes a self-important letter to the evening newspaper which Dedalus helps get published, on the subject of foot-and-mouth disease.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stephen Dedalus, fictional character, the protagonist of James Joyce’s autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and a central character in his novel Ulysses (1922).

Detailed explanation-3: -By clearly deeming Shakespeare as the ghost and Stephen as the prince, Joyce requires that the reader sees him as a son to Shakespeare. He, thus, must be seen as the heir to Shakespeare. Joyce uses Leopold Bloom as the Shakespeare for his pages.

Detailed explanation-4: -The relationship between Bloom and Stephen is worthy of attention. According to the Homeric parallels, Bloom corresponds to Odysseus and Stephen to Telemachus: Bloom and Stephen must be a father and his son.