Transformations of the Live Dog in the “Proteus” Chapter of Ulysses and Shadowed Puppet Play in Plato’s Parable of the Cave

DOI: 10.5176/2251-3566_L31276

Authors: HO U Teng

Abstract: This paper seeks to compare the “point, live dog” which curiously appears before Stephen Dedalus’s eye in the “Proteus” Chapter of Ulysses with the shadow of the puppets in Plato’s Parable of the Cave, identifying Stephen with the vain, chained prisoner within, in an attempt to explore other idealistic elements in the Episode apart from Aristotle, Berkeley and Saussure.

Keywords: Ulysses; Proteus; transformations; dog; puppet; Plato; cave; philosophy