Similarities Between O Brother Where Art Thou And The Odyssey

In both Homer’s The Odyssey and the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? the audience is given an opportunity to experience a spectacular adventure, filled with not only the sense of journey, but also the senses of peril and excitement. A tale about a Greek hero being compared to a film set in Middle America starring three jail-escapees seems rather far-fetched. However, upon closer inspection, both actually share a lot in common. The Odyssey stars Odysseus, a man famous for his heroics in the Trojan War. O Brother, Where Art Thou? shows a bit of a contrast by starring Ulysses, a former convict who escaped and began looking for “A Treasure”. So by default, one would assume that that these two stories would be completely different. However, it

Published in the 8th century B.C.E and 1997 respectively, both The Odyssey by Homer and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling are universally known arts of literature. The Hero’s Journey is a commonly used trope incorporated in numerous amounts of tales. This trope involves a hero who goes on a journey, finds himself in a crisis, defeats his enemies, and comes home changed. Harry Potter, the main character in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, encounters many conflicts and meets helpful mentors on his adventure. Similarly, Odysseus, the main character in The Odyssey, encounters various monsters and obstacles, too. Both Harry Potter and the

They become the Soggy Bottom Boys but no one knows who they are. In “The Odyssey” Odysseus tells the king a tale to get a ride on his ship back home. Pete and Delmar get baptized so they can be rid of all their sins and become free, they forget about the treasure they are supposed to find. Odysseus’s men eat the lotus, Odysseus doesn't but his crew becomes very very happy and they forget about home. Pete, Delmar, and Everett hear three women singing in the woods, they go and see who they are and they end up getting lost in the ways of their singing. This represents the sirens in “The Odyssey” the only difference is that Odysseus and his men didn't fall for their tricks. After Everett and Delmar wake up, Delmar starts to think that the women turned Pete into the toad they found in his clothing. This relates to “The Odyssey” because Circe turns men into

The poem the Odyssey and the movie O Brother, where Art Thou are epic movies with epic heroes such as Odysseus and Everett. To be an epic hero you must be smart, travel a vast setting, be famous, and have a little help from a god.

The Odyssey and O’Brother Where Art Thou? both tell the same story through different time frames and different areas of the world. Both main characters are portrayed as heroes, and they both have many of the traits form a “Heroes Journey” notes. Although both are heroes Ulysses is a better hero than Odysseus. Some example of why are he is a better leader, he goes back to get his campaigns, he doesn’t look back on his decisions or show if he is unsure about a decision.

Both Odysseus from The Odyssey and Everett from O Brother, Where Art Thou? share qualities that made the stories similar, but they were also given drastically different qualities that gave each story its own meaning. First, both characters show pride in their own skills when trying to get home. Therefore, they never acted in their fellow travelers’ best interests.

The Similarities The long, seemingly endless journey was like a fast treadmill that only pushes you farther back. The characters in Oh Brother where art thou and characters in The Odyssey both have many obstacles that push them back from getting back to their family just like a treadmill unless you keep going at all times. There’s is a crew in both stories, they both had supposed deaths, and they both have temptations of women.

Two epic poems: one telling a grandiose tale of battle and the other describing a hellish journey home for one of the soldiers. This is what is in store for readers when they enter the rich world of Homer’s legendary poems: The Iliad and The Odyssey. These poems, highly regarded by almost all who have read it, are considered some of the most influential pieces of literature ever written, and for good reason. The Iliad and The Odyssey have been some of my personal favorite reads, just behind Animal Farm and 1984, due to its captivating style of prose, which made even the smallest of events interesting in some way. There were no dull moments, and I could confidently say that the entire experience was one that left me completely satisfied. These poems have forever changed the world of literature, and it is not hard to see why.

On a myriad of occasions, in the face of a tragedy, the protagonist is salvaged by an eminent opportunity for hope. In the instance of Odysseus, this opportunity comes in the manifestation of the Phaeacians. When arriving at this foreign land in book 6, Nausicaa and the king cordially welcome Odysseus with open minds and arms, evidently when Nausicaa states “‘This man is an unfortunate wanderer who has strayed here, and we must look after him… give him food and drink, girls, and bathe him in the river where there’s shelter from the wind’” (6.203-208). The royals are oblivious to Odysseus’s regal identity, yet they treat him as an equal. When departing, the Phaeacian noble families charitably endow him with various riches and essentials; this ensures a safe passage to his fatherland. This is also conspicuous when Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, is also treated with fine hospitality when visiting Menelaus. His initial visit to Sparta was to learn of his father’s desperate whereabouts; he spent weeks under ultimate generosity from Menelaus and others. This theme of kindness proves constant in The Long Walk as well; Slav encounters multitudes of individuals who offer hospitality through his excruciating journey. One of the first large groups of men, and last to speak English, that Slav’s group met was a small caravan. The leader of the group supplies food and other necessities for Slav’s crew, as well as

Odysseus is the genius tactician whom Everett is modeled after. In the movie O’ Brother Where Art Thou, Everett is extremely similar to Odysseus. Everett is comparably much smarter than those around him, like Odysseus, and believes in his own power. He is also surrounded by people who want to betray him or hurt him, and uses similar methods of not being caught. Also, they both fully believe they are better than and don't need others. Everett and Odysseus also both only want to get back to their wives while they still hold slight concern for their companions. Everett in the movie O’ Brother Where Art Thou is made to be like Odysseus because they are both intelligent, narcissistic and have the same goal.

The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou is a wonderful movie that was directed by the Coen brothers. The movie features a cast of talented actors, the movie has also won several awards. The book The Odyssey is a timeless classic and it was written by the mysterious bard Homer. The book tells the tale of our hero Odysseus as he attempts to make it home to his wife. There are many ways to relate the movie plot and characters, to Odysseus's journey in The Odyssey.

Time has not become the conqueror for the classical epic poem The Odyssey. For the past 2,500 years it has been turning its pages for many people all around the world, classifying it as the Western literary tradition. Even in the 21st century The Odyssey is still depicting its prominence when the film O Brother, Where Art Thou was directed in 2000 by loosely portraying the epic. The Coen Brothers’ film O Brother, Where Art Thou mirrors themes, motifs, and symbols from Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. Both creative works recount the twists and turns of a man’s journey home. But was it a relevant successful relation between the two? I tend to think so. The movie O Brother, Where

in both The odyssey and in greek myth, mortals end up crossing the gods a lot more than once. in the epic, many people are seen crossing the gods. often times, it ends badly.

The film O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a reinterpretation of the epic poem The Odyssey. The Coen brothers, writers and directors of the film, did not over analyze their representation. “It just sort of occurred to us after we’d gotten into it somewhat that it was a story about someone going home, and sort of episodic in nature, and it kind of evolved into that,” says Joel Coen in Blood Siblings, “It’s very loosely and very sort of unseriously based on The Odyssey” (Woods 32). O Brother, Where Art Thou? contains ideas from The Odyssey for the sake of modernization and entertainment of an audience that comprehends the allusions to the epic. The Coen brothers utilize elements of Homer’s The Odyssey to improve and to give direction to O

The movie, O’ Brother, Where Art Thou, is an old-timey film based on Homer’s The Odyssey. The plot and characters are all loosely drawn from the ancient Greek myth, but is set in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The result is an original film filled with adventure, interesting characters, and side-splitting comedy. The George Clooney stars as the main character, Ulysses Everett McGill, with his two man crew, Pete and Delmar, as they trek across Mississippi in search of “treasure” and encounter many of the same trials and troubles that are told about in the myth of Odysseus.