If children cannot survive without their mothers and motherhood may be the only true thing in life, as Stephen states in an early episode of Ulysses, then a theory of literary creation based solely on authorship is intrinsically destabilized. This further clarifies Stephen's problems with his own theory. Moments of insecurity creep into his long speeches. At a certain point he stops speaking out loud to question himself internally: “What the hell are you getting at? I know. Shut up. Make you jump! I have reasons. Wide. Adhuc. Iterum. Postea Are you condemned to this?” (266). Stephen does not respond, but we can assume that his desperation for a literary father has condemned him to loosely interpret Shakespeare in an attempt to create a purely fictional literary father. The result is empty, lacking the materiality necessary to do justice to the birth process. Indeed, Mulligan mocks Stephen's claim that Shakespeare was the father of “all his race” by concluding that Shakespeare must have fathered himself: “He himself is his father, Sonmulligan said to himself. Wait. I'm big with a baby. I have an unborn baby on my brain. Pallas Athena! A comedy! The important thing is the game! Let me give birth!” (267). Here Mulligan pretends to be pregnant in the unique style of Zeus, who gave birth to Athena from his head. Mulligan listens as Stephen talks about a marriageless heaven: "heaven, foretold by Hamlet, there is no more marriage, a glorified man, an androgynous angel, being a wife to himself" but is not sucked into the romance of it (274 ). . Instead he undercuts Stephen's sentimentality by using humor, shouting "Eureka" and starting to write a play about masturbation called "Everyone's got their own wife or honeymoon in their hands (a national immorality in the midst of... paper... ... you and then we set out to find her, Bloom is an answer to Stephen 's search for a literary father. Bloom cannot replace Shakespeare or Stephen 's mother Shakespeare represents the ideal literary father, to whom the mother of Stephen will be physically born him and provided him with the love he needed as a child However, the role of Stephen's father is physically vacant Here, Bloom inserts himself into Stephen's life, this may seem unspectacular, yet it is through this physical realm that people agree on, disagree on, and shape a conception of reality. This ability to see through other people's eyes and carefully note the confluences and schisms between their perspectives, as well as your own,. can be an essential part of what it means to be a. writer.Works CitedJoyce, James. Ulysses. Ed. Declan Kiberd. London, England: Penguin, 2000. Print.