This ten-page post graduate paper examines James Joyces theme of family in his novel, Ulysses. The author notes that in order to define his concept of family and present elements of human nature which diminish its bonds, Joyce constructed very detailed scenes involving human activities such as voyeurism, gluttony, dementia, alcoholism, and other destructive tendencies. The deviance of these activities was emphasized by Joyce in order to examine the challenge of maintaining healthy family relationships.
