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Similarities Between O Brother Where Art Thou And The Odyssey

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COME ON BOYS - NOW! WE'RE GOIN' FOR THE RECORD-THREE BANKS IN TWO HOURS!” George Nelson is a bank robber and an interesting element added in to help move Everett, Pete, and Delmer further along on their journey. The journey they make in O’Brother, Where Art Thou is meant to be similar to the Odyssey. Authors Ethan and Jole Coen wrote O Brother, Where Art Thou? Similar to The Odyssey. They use the same characters. O Brother, Where Art Thou? More modern, they are more similar than different in the characters of Big Dan and the Cyclops, the people of the church, and the lotus-eaters. There are many similarities between O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Odyssey, including the similarities between Big Dan and the Cyclops. The similarity that stuck out most to me was the …show more content…

They have a lot of the same physical features as well as their personalities. In The Odyssey, the Cyclops are very angry, and not very smart and aggressive, Big Dan is the same way. The Cyclops would pick up Odysseus' men and squish them to death, Big Dan takes the frog (Pete) squishes him, and throws him up against the tree. Some of the other correlations of O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Odyssey also lies in the plot. The plot is very similar between the two, O Brother, Where Art Thou? List of the characters in the Odyssey. I talked about the similarities between Big Dan and the Cyclops, but that's not all, the Lotus-eaters, the people of the church, the Syrences and the women in the lake, and the cannibals are similar to the KKK. They all are given the same task, to get them off to where they want to go. Overall, they are very similar because of all of the struggles they go through, they have to maneuver their way through all of these setbacks and find their way back on track. However, the main difference between O Brother, Where Art Thou? And The Odyssey is definitely the

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