動物形象幾乎穿插于愛爾蘭現代民族寓言《尤利西斯》中的每一章中。首先,借助于這些動物,喬伊斯傳達出多重關于"他者"以及"他者的他者"的諸種辛酸。在《尤利西斯》中,動物既以人類"他者"的形象出現,又以殖民者"他者"的形象出現,主要被殖民者用來喻示愛爾蘭人的低等性、順從性和可怖性。其次,動物意象也被用以喻示殖民者與被殖民者之間相互書寫、相互定義的隨意性和荒誕性。再次,動物意象還被用來傳達作者理想的動物觀,即人類與其他物種一律平等的思想。最后,《尤利西斯》的作者也難逃物種主義的幽靈侵擾。

In Ulysses, the modern national epic of Ireland, there are images of animals almost in every chapter. Firstly, through these images of animals, Joyce expresses various kinds of bitterness and hardship of the Other and the Other of the Other. In Ulysses, animals are the images of the Other of human beings and the Other of the colonialists, which are mainly used by the colonizers to show the inferiority, the obedience and the threat of the colonized.Secondly, the images of animals are exploited to reveal the arbitrariness and absurdity in the mutual definition and presentation between the colonizers and the colonized. Thirdly, the images of animals are also employed to express the author’s ideals about animals, that is, humans and other animals should be equal. Finally, it is very hard for the author of Ulysses to be free from the haunting of the spectre of speciesism.