Ulysses (novel) very existence". Through these characters Joyce "achieves a coherent and integral interpretation of life". Joyce uses "metaphors, symbols, ambiguities, and overtones which gradually link themselves together so as to form a network of connections binding the whole" work. This system of connections gives the novel a wide, more universal significance, as "Leopold Bloom becomes a modern Ulysses, an Everyman in a Dublin which becomes a microcosm of the world." Eliot described this system as the "mythic method": "a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is
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