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Assignment 1 Victorian Poetry MA-3

The document summarizes the character of Ulysses as portrayed in different literary works. It discusses Lord Tennyson's dramatic monologue poem "Ulysses" where the aging hero plans another adventure. It also mentions Charles Lamb's adaptation "The Adventures of Ulysses" and how Dante depicts Ulysses in Hell in his "Inferno" for deceiving others to win the Trojan War. The document traces the origin of Ulysses from Greek mythology and how later authors explored his adventurous and knowledge-seeking nature.

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Assignment 1 Victorian Poetry MA-3

The document summarizes the character of Ulysses as portrayed in different literary works. It discusses Lord Tennyson's dramatic monologue poem "Ulysses" where the aging hero plans another adventure. It also mentions Charles Lamb's adaptation "The Adventures of Ulysses" and how Dante depicts Ulysses in Hell in his "Inferno" for deceiving others to win the Trojan War. The document traces the origin of Ulysses from Greek mythology and how later authors explored his adventurous and knowledge-seeking nature.

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Assignment 1 - Character of Ulysses in Literature

Name: Nayyab Abid


Class: MA English III
Subject: Victorian Poetry
Sap id: 19798
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The character of Ulysses has been widely explored in literature. Trace the origin of this character
and provide examples of different literary works that highlight Ulysses’ character.

Ulysses was published in 1842. Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written in 1833. In a
dramatic monologue, the aged title character outlines his plans to leave his dull kingdom of
Ithaca to recover the lost glory in a final adventure on the seas and Tennyson composed in
response to the death of his friend. s in Greek hero also in a Trojan War; After the fall of
Troy .He spent ten years to explore the world. When he arrived to Ithaca, his kingdom, he
explore the world again despite his reunion with his family.

The first literary work is ‘’Ulysses’’ The Poem is considered the first true dramatic monologue
and dramatic monologue is a lyric poem. Alfred, Lord Tennyson is good at write dramatic
monologues. His well-known poem Ulysses is an excellent example of dramatic monologue in
which he affect a classical hero Ulysses or Odysseus as the main character for his work. Here he
tries to focus on the adventurous as well as knowledge seeking spirit of Ulysses.

Ulysses, the man of nimble wit, is not satisfied with his life among his subjects, who are unaware
of his heroic cast. His aged wife Penelope also cannot understand his heroic soul. But his
intention is not clear until he says. I cannot rest from travel, I will drink Life to the lees. The
monologue research the point of climax. Ulysses knows that he and his sailors, being old are
nearer death, but he has not given up hope and believes that old men also can earn great glory
and achieve great deeds and he says.
Death closes all, but something ere the end
Some work of noble note, may yet be done.

The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb’s. Ulysses is the Latin name for ‘Odysseus’, the
hero of the work. He published the adaptation in 1808. Although later celebrated as an essayist,
Lamb was also a prominent early 19th-century children’s author who together with his sister
Mary Lamb, had found success a year earlier.

The character of Ulysses mentioned in Dante’s inferno basically Ulysses and Diomedes were
two Greek kings who led the fight against the Trojans and eventually won the Trojan War in part
through the ruse of the Trojan horse, by putting Ulysses and Diomedes in Hell, Dante reveals
that he disapproves of the cheating they used to win the war.
“Not fondness for my son, nor reverence
For my old father, nor the due affection
Which joyous should have made Penelope,
Could overcome within me the desire
I had to be experienced of the world,
And of the vice and virtue of mankind…”

Ulysses explains why he did not return to his kingdom after the Trojan War, but Dante strongly
disapproves of Ulysses’ views but Ulysses recognizes that his belief is a good part of why he is
now in Hell: Many of his crew died on that journey.

Conclude the topic no doubt the character Ulysses deserves huge appreciation for there is a
consonantal movement of thought fill the character of the Ulysses beginning to the end. Ulysses
is rightly regarded as a masterpiece in literary works.

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