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Thesis- The movie “O Brother Where Art Thou” is better than the epic poem “The Odyssey” because the main characters stay similar, it has many supernatural points, and the setting is better. The first reason is the main character stays the same. In the movie Ulysses fulfills the role of Odysseus. Odysseus and Ulysses are similar in many ways, one of the ways that sticks out the most is their pride. Ulysses refuses to make change for anything he does not believe in. In the movie he refuses to use…

their own entertainment. Many of the stories were enjoyed, but people seemed to really love Homer’s stories. They started to go off of Homer’s sorties to create their own and that’s what the director of O Brother, Where Art Thou did. Between the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou and the epic poem the Odyssey, there are many similarities and differences. Odysseus and Ulysses have many differences, but they also have many similarities. First of all, they have the same name because Odysseus’s…

Brother, Where Art Thou? through the characters of Penelope and Penny. In The Odyssey, Penelope is the leading cause for Odysseus’ desire to return home. She is the reason he fights and travels through such a peril journey in order to get home. Without Penelope, Odysseus would not have fought as hard as did for twenty years in order to return to his kingdom and his wife; “Only Odysseus still longed to return to his home and his wife” (Homer 15-16). In O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Penny is the…

O Brother, Where Art Thou, loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," deals with the adventures of Everett McGill and his fellow fugitives Delmar and Pete in 1930s Deep South. It picks up with the trio in a chain gang where Everett is trying to get home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist. Along the story, the characters are faced with a series of odd characters- among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George Nelson AKA "Baby Face", a campaigning governor, a KKK mob, and a blind man who warns…

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is an adventure Movie that came out in 2000 starring actors George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film 's story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer 's epic poem, Odyssey. The famous Coen brothers who produced, edited, and directed the movie decided to base the plot of the movie compared to the story the Odyssey. Although the movies main character, Ulysses Everett McGill…

books are converted into movies, their themes of the stories and plots are altered to give the audience a new version of entertainment. In comparison between the Greek epic poem “The Odyssey” and a movie based on the poem called “O brother, Where Art Thou”, interesting overlaps are seen, as well as several distinctiveness that enhance the uniqueness of each creation. Both…

Odyssey is regarded as one of the greatest written Epics, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was nominated for the best motion picture in the 2001 Golden Globe Awards. The Odyssey follows the journey of the greatest hero ever written, Odysseus, home. The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? explores Everett, Pete and Delmar’s journey as they search for a similar hidden treasure. The Odyssey and the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou have very similar elements yet both have their versions of the story: the…

Turning a Blind Eye: How Blindness Connects with The Odyssey and O’ Brother Where Art Thou? While reading The Odyssey for class, something that really struck me was how many characters were blind in this epic. At first, I didn’t really get the hint, but after seeing this reoccurring theme more than a few times, I began to really take notice of how often blindness would show up. We meet Demodocus, Polyphemus, Tiresias, and Odysseus’s dog- Argos throughout the epic: All have some sort of visual…

Intro/Thesis Freud, people will support laws that reflect 'thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself' because they have an unconscious desire to do so (because they (or their ego) want to be loved and want their loving relationships protected), Sigmund Freud responds to the commandment, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” recognizes the culture of individual ego and human aggression shown during the laws of society that protect the love of objects (Freud 232). Sigmund Freud stated that the…

job of combining literary devices in poetry to create some of the most heart-wrenching and emotional poems ever written. And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair by Lord Byron exhibits nature imagery, personification, and parallelism to create a tone of overwhelming sadness and love. Lord Byron uses imagery in order to create a locus classicus of romantic era poetry. In And thou art Dead, as Young and Fair, the most common use of imagery is to describe nature. Byron uses nature imagery to compare…