Episode 12 (Cyclops)
Bloom's confrontation with the Citizen: 'And I belong to a race too... that is hated and persecuted.' Bloom names Christ as a Jew and is chased by the antisemitic Citizen hurling a biscuit tin.
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From Ulysses by James Joyce
Both Stephen and Bloom move through Dublin as outsiders - Stephen estranged from family, church, and nation; Bloom marked as a Jew in Catholic Ireland.
Episode 2 (Nestor)
'History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.' Stephen's reply to Mr Deasy encapsulates his desire to escape Irish-Catholic determinism.
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