Similarities Between The Odyssey And O Brother Where Art Thou

Pride, for example, is favorable, because it can encourage the person to strive harder, ultimately allowing them to achieve their goals. Such as when “it seemed so hopeless from the beginning that it's a miracle [Doodle’s brother] didn't give up” (Hurst 3). The audience can see that the narrator encourages himself, as well as his brother, with his own pride to teach Doodle how to walk. Similarly, pride can also make a person determined to achieve their objective, as in when the person “should have already admitted defeat, but my[their] pride wouldn't let me[them]”(Hurst

In the epic poem, The Odyssey, from Homer, Odysseus sets his goal of going on a long journey to get back to Ithaka. During his long journey home, Odysseus faces many problems like facing Poseidon, his sons, singing women, and many more. He learns in after he visited the underworld that he needs to stop being prideful and selfish. The author states “Conquer your rage, your blazing, headstrong pride!”(11.642). While some might argue that the goal is more important, I maintain thst the journey is more important than the goal because, throughout The Odyssey, it is clear through Odysseus’s actions that pride has swallowed him up and taught him a few lessons.

“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18) is a universal message followed by many. In The Odyssey, Homer personifies this quote in the character Odysseus, the protagonist of the novel. A man beset with a hamartia of hubris, Odysseus’ flaw leads to his tragedy and hardships during his years-long journey to return home. With the utilization of motif of a lion, as well as direct and indirect characterization, Homer warns that pride, when controlled, leads to marvelous fame and recognition; however, if unbridled, leads to one’s misfortune and suffering.

(C.S. Lewis). Pride can take over the lives of people who have it within them. It is ok to feel proud but if the sense of pride is exaggerated it will lead to arrogance and therefore to problems. In the book Antigone, by Sophocles, pride is displayed as good and bad. Pride can have a big impact on people when it is taken for granted. Sophocles uses such powerful language and gives such great imagery with his words that it is apparent pride is greatly implied in his book. The conflicts and morals being taught to us in his book states that pride is something that

Another case of his pride blinding Odysseus had no leadership or control over his men: “Temptation had its way with my companions, and they untied the bag.” (Book X, lines 52-53). Odysseus could not control his men, and this caused the whole ship to be blown back to Aiolia. Also as a result of his pride, Odysseus loses the entire Ithacan fleet. His hubris blinds his sense of judgment and as a result, kills two generations of Ithacans. His ego and selfishness makes him lose all of his men, and makes him an antihero.

Pride is a good thing and a bad thing. Odysseus’s greatest problem was pride. When Odysseus tried to return home, there was an island, therefore they stopped looking for food. This island was the home of Cyclops's. Odysseus along with his men infuriated a Cyclops named Polyphemus. Odysseus along with his men ran back to the ship, it was then he had let pride immerse him. Polyphemus ended up asking his father Poseidon for revenge.“The rate of major earthquakes--those with a magnitude higher than 7.0-- more than doubled in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the average since 1979”(Yan and Berlinger 2). Just alike the earthquakes doubling in the amount, Odysseus will encounter more storms than usual. Odysseus was extremely smart at first

Everett and Odysseus show pride in themselves. In The Odyssey, Odysseus boasts about defeating Polyphemus, then Poseidon, Polyphemus’s father punishes him. He shouts “…if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye…” (Homer 60). Everett shows his pride through his hair, constantly complimenting it and requiring a specific type of hair gel for it.

Homer uses Odysseus’ arrogance to emphasize that pride can lead to the start of one’s problems. When Odysseus and his crew are leaving the island of the Kyklôpes, Odysseus taunts Polyphemus by yelling, “Kyklops, if ever mortal man inquire/ how you were to shame and blinded, tell him/ Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye out:/ Laërtês’ son, whose home’s on Ithaka!”(9.548-552) The taunting tone in Odysseus' sentence shows how his arrogance led to pride, as he was arrogant in his belief

The Odyssey is an epic poem written by homer that tells the story of the long travel of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his men. Odysseus and his men encountered a lot of bumps along the road until Odysseus finally makes it home from the Trojan War. They face cyclops, gods, goddesses, sirens, and many more characters. In the film O Brother Where Art Thou? Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen, takes place in the 1930s where Ulysses, Demer, and Pete escape prison in search of a treasure in which they encounter a blind railroad worker, a one eyed man named Big Dan, and many more interesting characters. These two plots contains many similarities from the name of the main character to the experiences the men find themselves in.

In different stories, some things will be different. Some things may be left out. This can be seen when reading The Odyssey and watching O Brother, Where Art Thou?. It can also be seen when reading “Atwood”.

One morning a band of three brothers awaken from a night of mischievous activities, but only two stand up to find the last’ clothes on the ground with their owner nowhere in sight. They then see movement from the shirt moving up to the neck, then a frog appears in place of the last brother’s body! This occurred after the day the brothers were entranced by three sirens. Similar to Homer’s “The Odyssey,” “O Brother Where Art Thou” has many events that relate the Odysseus and his adventure.

They are arrogant, yet sometimes uncertain, they are cunning, but still find themselves weak at times. This is very evident throughout the whole story, where both characters are very independent of others, especially when it comes to the help of the god(s). Odysseus’ audacity towards the gods causes quite a delay in his journey home, in particular because of his hostility towards Poseidon. On the other hand, Ulysses himself is not a very religious man. He cannot be lured into foolish tricks along with his friends. However, when push comes to shove, both characters realise where they stand and what needs to be done. They need to swallow their pride and put their egos behind them, and finally acknowledge the fact that they will need to seek help from the higher powers in order to reach their goal of arriving home sooner rather than later.

What is pride? Is it the quality or state of being proud? According to Dictionary.com it could also be a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction that you get when you experience something special. There can be many different meanings of pride. Pride can be the allegiance towards a certain group or club, the pride one gives towards its own country, or even the pride that someone has internally within themselves could be another way to look at the definition of pride. Pride can be interpreted in more ways than one; it just depends on the way the word is being used.

Both me and Odyssey have a curious side and when it comes out most of the time it turns out bad. From example when Odysseus went to the cyclops island and his curious side came out and he wanted to see what the cyclops looked like. “Yet I refused I wanted to see the caveman.” Odysseus’s curiousness got the men trapped in the cave with the cyclops. Another example would be when Odysseus came back to his home and he was curious to see if his wife stayed loyal. “Who else in the world would keep aloof or you do from her husband if he returned to her from years of trouble be cast on his land in the twentieth year?” Similar to the first one I also had a curious side and it came out and the end result wasn’t to good. Well once I was curious about

Alexandre Dumas, Homer, and Kenneth Branagh all have done things very similar to each other. They used symbols and imagery to represent archetypal heroes. In Dumas's (The Count of Monte Cristo), Homer's (The Odyssey), Branagh's (movie Thor), shows archetypal heroes by using symbols and imagery. The Island of Monte Cristo from The Count of Monte Cristo, The Island of Ithaca from The Odyssey, and Thor's hammer from the movie Thor. These are the main symbols and imagery that are strong and represent the archetypal heroes in a unique and different way.