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    opportunity for another man to gain over. In order for man to remain in his head position, he will face a variety of obstacles. Both Everett in O’ Brother Where Art Thou? and Odysseus in The Odyssey faces various obstacles in their journey home in order to protect their paterfamilias and oikos, respectively. In the film, O ' Brother Where Art Thou? by the Coen Brothers, Everett’s primary mission is to protect his paterfamilias. Paterfamilias refers to the male head of a family or household. (Merriam

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    O Brother, Where Art Thou? A movie was taken from The Odyssey an epic, both were away from their home for years. Neither Odysseus or Ulysses given up throughout their journey although the authors writen it in different mood and outcome of each event. The Odysseus has a series mood to it than O Brother. When Odysseus was trapped inside the Cyclop’s lair trying figuring out a way without dying there were tension within lair after all his crew were eaten alive and he is going to be next, with that he

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    the three text “The Odyssey”, “O!Brother Where Art Thou”,and “Siren Song” the authors use the idea of the men being lured in by the song to make their text. These three text have ideas that are emphasized, absent and different. Emphasized in all three texts are sundry items. In Homer’s text he emphasizes the song that the sirens sing, the spell that is set on the men passing and the struggle the men went through. In the video “O!Brother Where Art Though” emphasizes the beauty of the sirens

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    attempts to return to his home at Ithaka after the fall of Troy. During his travels, Odysseus faced many obstacles whom he had to overcome. In order to do so, Odysseus had to prove his intellectual capacity, strength and determination. “O Brother Where Art Thou” is a 2000 adventure film which follows the journey of a man named Ulysses Everett McGill as he attempts to make his way back home with two fellow convicts after escaping prison. Although it lacks the structure and does not follow sequence of events

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    the movie falls short of the mark. O Brother, Where Art Thou?, however, tends to stay on track with the Odyssey. Due to the fact that O Brother, Where Art Thou? takes place in 1930’s Mississippi, certain plot elements can not correlate directly, but other than that conflicts tend to be similar. Major characters make the same decisions as their Odyssey counterparts, with slightly different motives. Overall, The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou? have similar and different protagonists, other major

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    there is an overall message, or theme. Most even have more than one, and we, as readers, are supposed to take away the importance from the work. Pieces can even share morals and themes. We see an example of this in The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou because they share several of the same themes. One of the main overall themes these two pieces have in common is the importance of family. In The Odyssey, all Odysseus wanted to do was return home to his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus

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    Many seem to see Act IV Scene IV as lighthearted and simple or even boring, but this scene is a truly actually very complex scene due to some and carries some dark undertones. The spring setting directly contrasts thewith tense discussions and dark themes of death and decay. This comes to a head when Polixenes reveals himself, sentencing the Old Shepard to death, and Perdita to be horribly disfigured. Throughout the scene, Polixenes actually seems like a mirror for Leontes’s actions in the first

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    during the time period the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? was based on. The Great Depression was occurring at that time and the characters in this movie reflected and showed was it was like to live in a time like that. Each character in the movie symbolized what an individual person would have went through during the Great Depression. In this paper, I will discuss how the economy went from good to bad and how the characters in O Brother, Where Art Thou? symbolize these things. The characters,

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    O Brother, Where Art Thou? Film Review The modern film O Brother, Where Art Thou? had a very similar plot to the classic the Odyssey by Homer. The differences between the two are reflective of the relative the time periods. The film is about a group of three criminals, Ulysses Everett McGill, Pete Hogwallop, and Delmar O’Donnel who together escaped a chain gang. The self spoken leader, Ulysses Everett McGill encourages Pete and Delmar to come with him to find his hidden treasure. After meeting

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    Odyssey and O Brother Essay The pieces O Brother, Where art Thou?, and The Odyssey are both written about the adventures faced while on a journey to get back home and both consist of many arduous tasks. Adventure is necessary to create a sense of action and to help develop a character in a writing or film. When one goes through a long journey to reach their fulfilled destination, which is not always easy, they must stay faithful so that they will survive. One must stay faithful and courageous through

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