How Does Odysseus Present Ulysses Everett As An Epic Hero

The author of The Odyssey is also portrayed in O’ Brother. Everett and his friends hear about a man who will pay them to sing on the radio if they are good. When they reach the

His men also couldn't help him move the massive rock blocking the exit of the cave they are trapped in. He had to figure out a way to use the Cyclops's own strength against him. So, that is what he did. "Blinded, and sick with pain from his head wound,/ the master stroked each ram, then let it pass,/ but my men riding on the pectoral fleece/ the giant's blind hands blundering never found." (Homer, 9. 480-483). He snuck his men out on the bottoms of the Cyclops's rams so he wouldn't detect them escaping, a very clever plan. Everett was also a very clever man. He tricked the two men that he was chained to into believing a very detailed and believable story about a treasure of $1.2 million that they would split, which was actually all mad up so he could escape. He would have gone on his own but he was chained to the other two men, so he thought of a way to get them to go with him. It was a bad thing to do, but it was very clever. That is a few character traits that Everett and Odysseus share.

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll defines heroism as, “when the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death” (Website). During The Odyssey, various steps of Odysseus’ hero’s journey promote behavior which exemplifies such traits. His experience in this process catalyzes personal advancement as he metamorphoses into an intelligent yet humble hero who is able to defy fear, challenge fate, and confront the will of the gods. Without such events, he would not qualify as an epic hero as he would have never gained the traits necessary to achieve this status. In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus develops as an epic hero through stages of his hero’s journey including challenges at the hands of Poseidon following a display of hubris, displays of humility before the Phaeacians, and personal restraint upon return to Ithaca.

There are multiple similarities and differences between the wife, children, companions, the challenges they face, and the main characters themselves. Odysseus and Everett are different in many ways but they’re also the same in the other ways. Whether or not it’s their personality, the way they act, and/or the way they treat others around them. They could be similar by the challenges they take, the people they run into, and the places the overcome. But, they both want something in particular, they both want to go home and see their families.

The Odyssey by Homer is a classic epic that has been translated and retold again and again throughout time. The main characters, Odysseus, in The Odyssey, and Ulysseus, in Oh Brother Where Art Thou, interact with many characters in the same way. Odysseus remains a traditional epic hero, and Ulysseus begins to show qualities of an epic hero as well. The characters and the conflict correspond; however, major characters make different choices when presented with the same challenges. The movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou retells The Odyssey in a way that many characters are similar, and both main characters show qualities of epic heroes, but the modernization of the movie causes differences in the character traits portrayed.

Homer’s poem “The Odyssey” and the movie “O, Brother Where Art Thou?” exhibit several parallels in their narrative story, character traits and in the settings where most of the action takes place. One of these parallels is in the traits of the main character in both works of art. The character Odysseus in “The Odyssey” is presented as the smart, cunning, smooth-tongued, determined leader of his crew who rejects the help of the Gods at first with the main goal of returning to his home to reunite with his family. Similarly, Everett is presented as a strong-minded, calculating leader who doesn’t rely on the help of Gods among his companions with the ultimate goal of reuniting with his family.

In Homer’s epic poem titled The Odyssey Homer used literary devices to characterize Odysseus as an epic hero. Such as in similes Homer compares Odysseus body to pebbles “ But the breaker’s backwash charged into him full fury and hurled him out to sea. Like pebbles stuck in the suckers of some octopus dragged from (its) lair so strips of skin torn” saying that Odysseus was drag and crushed by the waves(5.474-477). Odysseus was seen as a hero from Ino which what let her to give Odysseus the scarf to make him immortal. When Odysseus and his men get stuck in Polyphemus cave they decide to pierce his eye out so he would see them and as they did, they compared it to when hot touches cold “ It’s crackling roots blazed and hissed as a blacksmith plunges

Hope Erickson Instructor: Chris Tamigi World Literature I 4 May 2016 Comparing and Contrasting Everett and Odysseus The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? , written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, is known for being based on Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, although it was not originally attended that way according to the writers.

In the Ancient Greek epic poem, “The Odyssey” written by Homer, there are loads of characters that play important roles. For example, Odysseus is an extremely significant to the poem. With his characteristics, Odysseus has quite a few exemplary qualities that shine through throughout the poem. However, Odysseus also value admirable qualities and characteristics that he also shows throughout the poem. These qualities create a unique character, though they have their ups and downs.

Odysseus fit all the qualities when , he outwits Polyphemus the Cyclops; he battles Charybdis and Scylla; finally, he disguises himself as a beggar and wins his family back from the intruders in his own home, in another way he is also category as an epic hero. On the other hand, he displays human characteristics as well: he is overly curious, which gets him into trouble with the cyclops, Lotus Eaters, etc. He is a man, and has a difficult time resisting the temptations of the beautiful Circe and Calypso. So, his characteristics fit into two categories: epic hero and

In Joyce’s story Ulysses, Joyce’s hero is no Greek hero like Odysseus but rather a hero getting through life in the world of reality. The book has had its issues with being published because of its endless amount of sexual, cruel and unbearable moments, religious conflicts and language along with shallow characters. For example, the chapter called Nausicaa parallels to Odysseus looking on Nausicaa and her maids washing their clothes by the river but unlike what occurred in the Odyssey, Bloom’s approach was entirely different. Among the women he was spying on, he was more focused on a woman named Gerty MacDowell. She was deep in thought of a boyfriend Reggie Wylie who never showed up and she felt like she was unwanted. She looked on noticed a hidden Bloom masturbating, which led her to adjust her seating and move around “her wellturned ankle” (Joyce 350) to show off her legs. The scene was perverted toward women but it made her more wanted.

When writing O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Ethan and Joel Coen sent Everett on an epic journey and gave him many traits of an epic hero. They make Everett a more relatable character than The Odyssey’s epic hero, Odysseus, by showing that Everett, like the average man, is sometimes trying to find an easy way out of his problems is in an attempt to achieve significance and stability.

Within Greek literature, the life of an epic hero is detailed with heavy reverence and placed on a higher priority than other men. In Homer’s Odyssey, the poem emphasizes the necessity to idolize the epic hero even at the cost of men from the inferior classes. Often, Odysseus’ reckless behavior costs the lives of his men yet his misdemeanors are rebranded as cleverness by Homer because the framing of Odysseus as an epic hero is more important than his crude path of success.

A hero is defined in the dictionary as a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character. In many great works of literature there will be a hero, mostly helping people in the book or fighting off crime in a neighborhood, heroes are everywhere. A book that Placer High School is teaching freshmen is “The Odyssey” by Homer, Where a hero named Odysseus fights off gods, monsters, and mortal enemies to protect the people he loves. Odysseus is a hero because through his bravery and intelligence he helped his friends/family.