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Ulysses
The Greek hero Odysseus, used as a symbol of adventure and cunning.
minor
Also known as the real Ulysses
First appearance: heretics
Ulysses shows up with force in III: On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Used as a figure who knew many lands but still lacked patriotism.
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In III: On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small: Used as a figure who knew many lands but still lacked patriotism. Later, in XII: Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson: Chesterton contrasts Tennyson's…
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This passage serves as the dramatic climax because it delivers the story’s central psychological reversal: the…
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