COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE BOOK ODYSSEUS AND THE MOVIE O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU.

Compare and contrast the book Odysseus and the movie O Brother Where Art Thou.

Compare and contrast the book Odysseus and the movie O Brother Where Art Thou.

After reading the "Odyssey" of Homer, you can easily see that the film O Brother, Where Art Thou modeled it. Many characters are seen in both, and there are many striking similarities. Although both the Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou, the same basic plot, there are some different variations on how everything is represented. This is most noticeably seen in the scenes with the sirens, Kyklops, lotus eaters, and the protagonist himself.

The most pronounced similarity of the siren. In the Odyssey, Odysseus is warned to be careful about the siren. Because of this, it gives the cotton of his crew so they can block their ears, and then he connects himself to the mast. Ulysses Kirk said, "The area in the path of your vehicle are Sirens, crying beauty bewitch men coasting on ..." (Odyssey 210). As Everett and his two men go to in O Brother, Where Art Thou, they come in three beautiful women, as well as the sirens of Odysseus, since they are also singing and bewitch three men with their beauty. Both Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou, Sirens should lead to the death of Odysseus and his crew. In the Odyssey, Odysseus fortunately managed to avoid the siren call because he was warned, but O Brother, Where Art Thou, Everett and his men were victims of the sirens. In both, the Sirens were in the water, but in O Brother, Where Art Thou, Sirens managed to persuade the men, and so Pete got caught by the police. Another similarity is that Everett and Delmar believe that Pete is transformed into a frog by seduction of sirens. It's like the "Odyssey", where some of the crew of Odysseus transformed into pigs seductress Kirke "As soon as they are drunk when she flew after them with her long stick and locked them in a pigsty, bodies, voices, heads, and bristles, all the pig now although minds are still intact "(Odyssey 172).

Another obvious similarity between the Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou is a Kyklops. In the "Odyssey", Kyklops described as "a wonderful man who was sleeping in his cave alone, and took his cattle graze ...