If children cannot survive without their mother and motherhood is perhaps the only true thing in life, as Stephen asserts in an early episode of 'Ulysses, then a theory of literary creation based solely on authorship is intrinsically destabilized. This further elucidates Stephen's problems with his own theory. Moments of doubt creep in between his long speeches. At one point, he stops speaking out loud to wonder internally: “What the hell are you doing? I know. Shut up. Explode yourself! I have reasons. Amplios. Adhuc. Iterum. Postea Are you condemned to do this? (266). Stephen does not respond but we can posit that his desperation for a literary father condemned him to freely interpret Shakespeare in order to create a purely imaginary literary father. The result is hollow, lacking the materiality to do justice to the birth process. Indeed, Mulligan mocks Stephen's statement that Shakespeare fathered "all his race" by concluding that Shakespeare must have fathered himself: "Himself his own father," Sonmulligan muses. Wait. I am grown up with a child. I have an unborn child in my brain. Pallas Athena! A play! It's the piece that counts! Leave me alone! » (267). Here, Mulligan pretends to be pregnant in the unique manner of Zeus, who gave birth to Athena from his head. Mulligan listens as Stephen talks about a paradise without marriages: "paradise, predicted by Hamlet, there are no more marriages, a glorified man, an androgynous angel, being his own wife" but he does not allow himself to be drawn into the romanticism of it (274). . Instead, he reduces Stephen's sentimentality by using humor, shouting "Eureka" and starting to write a play about masturbation called "Every Man Has His Own Wife or Honeymoon in His Hand (A national immorality in...... middle of paper... ...te then goes in search of him, Bloom is an answer to Stephen's quest for a literary father Bloom cannot replace Shakespeare or mother. by Stephen Shakespeare represents the ideal literary father, to whom Stephen's mother will have physically born him and provided him with the love he needed as a child However, the role of Stephen's father is physically vacant here. Bloom fits into Stephen's life, at first glance it may seem unspectacular, but it is through this physical realm that people agree, disagree and shape a conception of reality. to see through the eyes of others and vigilantly note the confluence and schisms between their views, as well as one's own, can be an essential part of what it means to be a businessman. writer. Works Cited Joyce, James. Ulysses. Ed. Declan Kiberd. London, England: Penguin, 2000. Print.