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The Oddessy Vs. O Brother Where Art Thou Essay

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The Odyssey is one of the oldest stories ever written and it's amazing how it has stuck around for so many years. It's very cool to see such an old tale be interpreted into a hugely different time period and almost a completely different storyline. O Brother, Where art Thou? is a brilliant movie. It makes the movie so much more meaningful when you have read the book and can make the connections. In the beginning of the movie it says that its based on The Odyssey and with all of the appearances of similar characters and events, it would be extremely hard to write a three page paper on how O Brother, Where Art Thou? isn't based on The Odyssey. In regards to that, O Brother, Where Art Thou? is based on many of the characters and events of …show more content…

Big Dan Teague (the Cyclops) reveals himself and Everett throws a sharp wooden stake with the Confederate flag on the other end at Big Dan. He catches it just before it hits his eye but Everett cuts the ropes on the burning cross and it falls on him. The Sirens are another big part in the movie. In The Odyssey, Odysseus and his men are warned to put wax over their ears. Odysseus has his men tie him to the mast, just so he can tell everyone that he resisted the song of the sirens. At one point during the movie, Pete hears the song off in the distance and has to follow its sound. They find the Sirens; yes they call them Sirens in the movie, and are given corn liquor. The men wake up and notice that Pete's gone. The Sirens in the book are said to lure the sailor to the cliffs where they would end up drowning themselves. The movie has a very similar take on this, they would lure a man and get him drunk. Luckily, in this movie, they didn't actually kill Pete or even turn him into a toad. Here's a little less obvious connection between the two. The Lotus-Eaters and the Baptizing Worshipers. Near the beginning of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Everett and his friends are camping out and an entire church group comes out of the woods, singing. They walk down to the river and start getting baptized. Delmar and Pete join in but Everett refuses. In the book, Odysseus and his crew come upon the land of the Lotus-Eaters. There his

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