James Joyce Waste Land", 1922 was a key year in the history of English-language literary modernism. In "Ulysses", Joyce employs stream of consciousness, parody, jokes, and virtually every other literary technique to present his characters. The action of the novel, which takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, sets the characters and incidents of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, parodically contrasted with their lofty models. The book explores various areas of Dublin life, dwelling on its squalor and
Protagonist ways, Hamlet is his own antagonist). Sometimes, a work will have a false protagonist, who may seem to be the protagonist, but then may disappear unexpectedly. The character Marion in Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho" (1960) is an example. A novel that contains a number of narratives may have a number of protagonists. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The First Circle", for example, depicts a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp. Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" depicts fifteen major characters involved in or affected by a war. "Little Women" boasts a cast of over five diverse females struggling with the