Throughout the movie, there are several references to other stories and characters throughout Greek mythology. However this attempt is for the most part inaccurate and includes main characters that have absolutely no contact with Hercules or warps their characteristics and meshes characters/stories together simply to create the plot Disney wanted. Some quick examples before going into depth with the main characters include references to the tragedy of Oedipus, the plagues and troubles in the city of Thebes because of his marriage to his mother, and of course the famously quoted line "...And then that, that play! That Oedipus thing...Man, I thought I had problems(Hercules, 1997)"! Half way through the movie famous statues of the gods and other
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This is completely inaccurate because according to the myths, he was turned into a flower and still remains at the river of Styx(Classical Mythology, 334). He also wasn 't a god, therefore he would certainly not have been celebrating with the gods on Mount Olympus. And finally, at the beginning of the film a reference is made to Charon, the man at the gate of the Underworld who takes souls across the river, who is rowing Hades around the river of the dead. Now we will examine the main characters Disney chose to portray in their film and their relationships to Hercules and the accuracy to the actual myth. The narrators for the film are five sassy gospel Muses who are extremely sympathetic to the protagonists and the events that occur to them, as well as drool over "Hunk-ulies". In Greek Mythology, there are nine Muses who are the daughters of Zeus. Disney definitely portrayed their sassiness, however they were much more extreme in the myths and how they handled challenges to their expertises in music and the arts, but they were in no way associated with Hercules(Hercules …show more content…
In the movie the Fates are three older than life sisters who share an eye who cut the threads of life and possess the knowledge of the past, present and future. They reveal a prophesy (after a lot of flattery) to Hades regarding his evil plan and how Hercules must be defeated if it is to succeed, which is when Hades sends his minions to take care of the "little sunspot(Hercules, 1997)". This is a very interesting depiction because Disney has combined two different myths into one character. The Three Fates, or Moerae, did in fact cut the threads of life but Disney combined them with the sisters of the Gorgons, or the Graeae. These sisters shared an eye and a tooth and were extremely old and had the gifts of prophesy of past, present and future(Greek Mythology Link). The last character I would like to compare is the Centaur, Nessus. In the movie, he tries to rape Megara until Hercules heroically comes to the rescue and defeats him by running him into the rocks of a waterfall(Hercules, 1997). In the myth, these two do square off, but Nessus is shot by an arrow dipped in the poison of the Hydra after Nessus tries to rape Hercules second wife, Deianira. Although the movie is inaccurate about Megara and Hercules ' first meeting, it is almost exactly how Deianira and Hercules meet and fall in love(Classical Mythology,
This is completely inaccurate because according to the myths, he was turned into a flower and still remains at the river of Styx(Classical Mythology, 334). He also wasn 't a god, therefore he would certainly not have been celebrating with the gods on Mount Olympus. And finally, at the beginning of the film a reference is made to Charon, the man at the gate of the Underworld who takes souls across the river, who is rowing Hades around the river of the dead. Now we will examine the main characters Disney chose to portray in their film and their relationships to Hercules and the accuracy to the actual myth. The narrators for the film are five sassy gospel Muses who are extremely sympathetic to the protagonists and the events that occur to them, as well as drool over "Hunk-ulies". In Greek Mythology, there are nine Muses who are the daughters of Zeus. Disney definitely portrayed their sassiness, however they were much more extreme in the myths and how they handled challenges to their expertises in music and the arts, but they were in no way associated with Hercules(Hercules …show more content…
In the movie the Fates are three older than life sisters who share an eye who cut the threads of life and possess the knowledge of the past, present and future. They reveal a prophesy (after a lot of flattery) to Hades regarding his evil plan and how Hercules must be defeated if it is to succeed, which is when Hades sends his minions to take care of the "little sunspot(Hercules, 1997)". This is a very interesting depiction because Disney has combined two different myths into one character. The Three Fates, or Moerae, did in fact cut the threads of life but Disney combined them with the sisters of the Gorgons, or the Graeae. These sisters shared an eye and a tooth and were extremely old and had the gifts of prophesy of past, present and future(Greek Mythology Link). The last character I would like to compare is the Centaur, Nessus. In the movie, he tries to rape Megara until Hercules heroically comes to the rescue and defeats him by running him into the rocks of a waterfall(Hercules, 1997). In the myth, these two do square off, but Nessus is shot by an arrow dipped in the poison of the Hydra after Nessus tries to rape Hercules second wife, Deianira. Although the movie is inaccurate about Megara and Hercules ' first meeting, it is almost exactly how Deianira and Hercules meet and fall in love(Classical Mythology,