Stream of Consciousness

Stream of consciousness is a literary technique in which the story is told as the internal monologue of the main character. The technique became popular in the early 20th century with writers like James Joyce, specifically his novel Ulysses. Ulysses retells Odyssey (which along with Iliad are two epic poems in a series of 6-8 curently lost poems), by giving the reader a view into an average day of one man, Leopold Bloom, on one day, June 16, 1904, in one city, Dublin, Ireland. Another character in Ulysses is Stephen Daedlus from A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, a roman à clef also by James Joyce. Other famous roman à clefs include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar is the only novel by Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath married Ted Hughes. Ted Hughes died in 1998. I was born in 1998.