Gilbert schema for Ulysses
This schema for the novel Ulysses was produced by Joyce in 1921 to help a friend (Stuart Gilbert) understand the fundamental structure of the book (he later published it in 1930 in his own book, James Joyce's "Ulysses"). The schema has been split into two subtables for better ease of reading.
Title
Scene
Hour
Organ
Colour
Symbol
Telemachus
The Tower
8am
-
White / gold
Heir
Nestor
The School
10am
-
Brown
Horse
Proteus
The Strand
11am
-
Blue
Tide
Calypso
The House
8am
Kidney
Orange
Nymph
Lotus Eaters[?]
The Bath
10am
Genitals
-
Eucharist
Hades
The Graveyard
11am
Heart
White / black
Caretaker
Aeolus
The Newspaper
12pm
Lungs
Red
Editor
Lestrygonians[?]
The Lunch
1pm
Oesophagus
-
Constables
Scylla and Charybdis
The Library
2pm
Brain
-
Stratford / London
Wandering Rocks[?]
The Streets
3pm
Blood
-
Citizens
Sirens
The Concert Room
4pm
Ear
-
Barmaids
Cyclops
The Tavern
5pm
Muscle
-
Fenian
Nausicaa
The Rocks
8pm
Eye, nose
Grey / blue
Virgin
Oxen of the Sun[?]
The Hospital
10pm
Womb
White
Mothers
Circe
The Brothel
12am
Locomotor apparatus
-
Whore
Eumaeus
The Shelter
1am
Nerves
-
Sailors
Ithaca
The House
2am
Skeleton
-
Comets
Penelope
The Bed
-
Flesh
-
Earth
Title
Art
Technic[?]
Telemachus
Theology
Narrative (young)
Nestor
History
Catechism[?] (personal)
Proteus
Philology
Monologue (male)
Calypso
Economics
Narrative (mature)
Lotus Eaters[?]
Botany / chemistry
Narcissism
Hades
Religion
Incubism[?]
Aeolus
Rhetoric
Enthymemic[?]
Lestrygonians[?]
Architecture
Peristaltic
Scylla and Charybdis
Literature
Dialectic
Wandering Rocks[?]
Mechanics
Labyrinth
Sirens
Music
Fuga per canonem[?]
Cyclops
Politics
Gigantism
Nausicaa
Painting
Tumescence[?] / detumescence[?]
Oxen of the Sun[?]
Medicine
Embryonic development
Circe
Magic
Hallucination
Eumaeus
Navigation
Narrative (old)
Ithaca
Science
Catechism[?] (impersonal)
Penelope
-
Monologue, female