Over The Rainbow Odyssey

Homer’s great literary classic, The Odyssey, represents and illustrates many emotional and mental values. All of these values can be classified under three different main themes that are constant throughout the epic tale. These themes are: A boy’s struggle to be a man, a king’s struggle to reclaim his kingdom, and a man’s struggle to return home. As one reads this book it will become more and more evident to them that a man’s struggle to get home is the most important theme throughout Homer’s adventure.

This book challenged many of my pre-convinced believes. For a long time, I believed people “chose” to be homosexual or heterosexual. Other ways to identified one’s self never even entered my mind. It would have been next to impossible to convince me people are born either way. Around puberty, when girls notice boys and vice versa, I believed a decision was made, I like A or B. Looking back, I honestly don’t know why I felt that way but I did. Lack of knowledge, understanding, media, family, upbringing, social norms, and so many other things influenced my thought process. Today, no I don’t believe people are determined by their body parts. I would use the book Raising My Rainbow as my source of “ammunition.” A child, three-years-old, with complete innocent and no idea of social norms, socially acceptable behavior, and gender roles was born a male but knew almost immediately they identified more as a girl. Their body did not correctly identify them; I would argue their brain did. If that is correct I would be interested to find out if there are scientifically differences between a “male brain” and a “female brain.”

In Greek Mythology, women were either very fierce or very weak. Women were usually defined by wits, beauty, or bad deeds. In The Odyssey women were not in the background. On the contrary, women were powerful. They charmed and controlled men, provided wisdom, and took care of them. The Odyssey appears to be strongly female based.

A feeling of sorrow for someone else’s misfortune is considered sympathy. Sympathy makes writing more relatable and more intriguing to read. When you feel sympathetic towards a character, you are making an important connection with that character so that you will want to keep reading. This is one of the many ways that authors engross their readers when they are writing a story. In the Odyssey, we as readers feel sympathetic towards the Cyclops because of his countless misfortunes. Many of his misfortunes are caused by Odysseus but, due to the connection that we made in the beginning of the epic poem to Odysseus, readers still villainize the Cyclops a little bit. Besides, this does not stop readers from sympathizing with the Cyclops for

Greek Gods are known for, helping and fighting others, but is that really true, and do we really know their stories? In the book “Theseus” by Bernard Evslin, Theseus is a young man that lives a boring life, until one day, a seagull told him that Poseidon was Theseus’s father, and he wanted to find him. Theseus overcomes various obstacles, he finally reaches Athen and finds his father king Aegeus. Later on Aegeus ask Theseus’s to go on an important journey. Meanwhile, another, epic poem is The Odyssey by Homer. After ten years of the Fall of Troy, Odysseus was disregarding to the gods, and the gods were flustered that they set Odysseus and his men off course to where the cyclops lived. But luckily, Odyssey trick the cyclops into being

Firstly, “The Princess Bride” is mainly about a girl who is in love with a farm boy. The boy Westley has to go to war so he could come back and have money to marry his true love. But, rumors spread that Westley was dead so Buttercup was forced to marry the king. Who knew Westley came out of nowhere and we were all surprised that he changed his name to Dread Pirate Roberts and that’s what kept him alive all these years. The king finds Buttercup and brings her back to the palace and forces her to marry him. He plans to kill her but instead she wants to commit suicide because what she thought was gonna happen didn’t. In the end they live happily ever after, far away from the kingdom.

The use of the seemingly eloquent plot of the Odyssey in the movie O Brother Where art thou, shows how the Coen brothers chose to modernize the major parts in the Odyssey to address a somber time in history. By recreating epic scenes from the Odyssey the Coen brothers provide a newer sense to various things that come about many times within both the movie and the Odyssey

An odyssey is a long journey filled with unexpected events or adventure. Homer’s The Odyssey is an epic poem or a long narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet. Many ancient writers used epic poetry to tell tales of intense adventures and heroic feats. Ancient Greeks believed men were rational and stable while women were irrational and dangerous.

The ability for an individual to realise the concept of discovery and rediscovery as a personal journey can be difficult to explore from a position of privilege but even more from a position of inequality and discrimination. An individual's quest for a personal discovery is a long and difficult process but can be unlocked from within their self despite social constraints. This notion is explored in the play 'Rainbows End' (2005) by Jane Harrison, and the short film '23 Degrees 5 Minutes' (2011). In Rainbows End, the desire to be recognised as a woman is accredited to the surrounding social culture in which she is a minority, being a young Indigenous woman. The notions of an insufficient education, and racial mistrust are explored in the play

“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.” The Odyssey and The Long Walk both exemplify the characteristic of humanity which Leo Tolstoy was referring to within this quote. The main characters of both works, Odysseus and Slavomir, go on journeys that, while physically challenging, tests the strength of their will. The determination and the overwhelming desire to return home of both men is what drives these characters to overcome immeasurable odds. Multiple parallels can be drawn between the two books, from the obstacles the characters face to the symbolism that can be found in Slavomir’s and Odysseus’s journeys. The Long Walk shows how Grecian Epics, such as The Odyssey, are still applicable in the modern day as representations of Humanities’ predominant and all-consuming desire to survive, and the specific desire to not only survive but to do so in the place one calls home.

Sometimes it is incredibly difficult to tell who is the ‘good guy’ in a story. A hero never begins as the perfect man.. There are stories where the adventurer is a thief or a murderer. However, there are also tales about an average man realizing that he is lacking something or recognizing that it is time to leave the nest. In The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Bilbo Baggins is nothing extraordinary. He is, like most other hobbits, fearful of the unknown. But, with the prodding of Gandalf; Bilbo leaves the Shire and finds his courage. The first definition of a hero in the Merriam Webster dictionary is, “A mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability.” According to this explanation, Mr. Baggins is not a hero. However, Odysseus, the hero in the epic The Odyssey by Homer, fits the definition to a t.

In the film “The Odyssey,” characterization, setting, and music help to not only establish the mood in the film but they also help develop the strongest theme in the text. Throughout the accurate and historic film “The Odyssey,” strong characterization through the showing of emotion on part of the characters helps to exceptionally portray the overall mood of the film for viewers of all ages. When making a movie on a historical epic such as the epic “Odyssey,” it is important to accurately portray all of the events that happened and to do so in a way that helps viewers understand the text. This movie does so through characterization by vividly not only showing pictures that were only imagined when reading the text but also by giving away

The song Somewhere over the rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole is a very strong in transcendentalism. This song fits into the category of importance of nature, simple living, and dreaming does come to, if you fight for them. Many transcendentalism, where dreaming of a way to live a simple life, and trying new things, like getting out of the town and seeking out nature. Somewhere over the rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole is stating that following your dreamings is ok, it may seem bizarre to think about having satisfactory to what you want. If people are shutting you down and there are opticals in the way, you have to push them out of the way and listen to yourself, for finding happiness, is what everyone wants, even though some people might not

The lyrics of “Over the Rainbow” conveys that an odyssey creates a reality outside of someone’s comfort zone. In the song, clouds and stars demonstrates a fantasy. The clouds and stars show that in order to reach a fantasy one will have to overcome challenges preventing them from reaching it, and how these challenges will get one outside of their comfort zone. Going over a rainbow represents a spiritual quest found in odysseys. Apparent in the song, a character wants to look beyond the rainbow.

The song “Over the Rainbow” most evidently defines an odyssey as a journey to a place that is fantasized and has miraculous things that are not found in reality. In the song, someone wishes to journey to a place that is wonderful and where things that seem to be nonexistent in the world exist. In the piece, one line of the lyrics is “Somewhere over the rainbow”. Moreover, this piece of evidence defines an odyssey as a journey to a place where things are divergent from what is normally known to humans because it is unknown what is actually beyond a rainbow. Additionally, “Over the Rainbow” defines an odyssey as a journey to a land that is beautiful that may have exotic creatures. In lines three and four, the lyrics say, “There’s a land