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Episode 13: Nausicaa , Mary and Rebirth

Homer’s Nausicaa discovers Ulysses after he has been shipwrecked. She lends him clothes and imparts advice about how to seek a meeting with her mother and father. She is largely responsible for Ulysses’ ability to continue his homeward journey—a fresh start and rebirth of sorts.

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Episode 13: Nausicaa , Mary and Rebirth

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  1. Homer’s Nausicaa discovers Ulysses after he has been shipwrecked. • She lends him clothes and imparts advice about how to seek a meeting with her mother and father. • She is largely responsible for Ulysses’ ability to continue his homeward journey—a fresh start and rebirth of sorts. Episode 13: Nausicaa, Mary and Rebirth • In Joyce’s Ulysses, Bloom meets Gerty at a time when he has been buffeted and bashed by the tempests of daily life. • She awakens and arouses him both mentally and sexually. • Clothed in blue and white, the reader is aware of her symbolic connection to St. Mary. • Gertysymbolizes a complex connection between purity, eroticism and rebirth/redemption or an awakening of Bloom’s understanding of himself and others. • Bloom’s interaction with Gertybegins and signals his literal and figurative journey home at the end the day 16 June, 1904.

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