Being too realistic for the audience, the novel Ulysses by James Joyce was probably one of the most challenged novels of the 20th century. The Shakespeare and Company in Paris first published this novel in 1922. Entering the market of united states, Joyce faced censorship, the "suppression of information, ideas, or artistic expression by anyone, whether government officials, church authorities, private pressure groups, or speakers, writers, and artists themselves"(The file room censorship archive, 2002), when the novel first entered the borders of the United States. James Joyce, a Jew, began his writing career as a teacher and achieved his first success in writing the novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. When Ulysses first came out, it was purchased by The Little Review magazine, and its debut publication "immediately [came] under the eye of the New York Anti-Vice Society because of its frank sexual content." Reference? The story includes sexual descriptions, which led to a ban against the book in 1920. Although the authority often challenges this book, Ulysses battled its way through the decade and is now taught in universities all over the world (Culture Shock, 1999).
             The story of the novel, based on the adventures of the Shakespearean novel Odyssey, talks the social realism and humanity that many people are afraid to talk about. This novel is about the daily life of the middle-aged advertising salesman Leopold Bloom. His job as a sales person forces him to travel throughout the city on a daily basis. While Bloom is Joyce's "Ulysses" character, the younger hero of the novel is Stephen Dedalus, a schoolteacher who left Ireland for Paris but was forced to return upon hearing news that his mother was deadly ill. Leopold Bloom is married to a singer named Molly and has a fifteen-year-old daughter named Milly. The story takes us to Bloom's daily adventures and experiences. These adventure...