Occurrence Where Art Thou Odyssey

When the film O Bother Where Art Thou first started, I was unable to make any correlation between that and The Odyssey, but as it progressed I soon was able to follow the plot and match creatures to their ancient Greek counterparts. As Odysseus encountered many monsters, mystical creatures, and gods, Ulysses (the main Odysseus like character in O Bother Where Art Thou) had many of his own encounters with Odyssey like creatures. While O Bother Where Art Thou is based on The Odyssey they still have there similarities and differences in the way the various creatures are portrayed. Because of the way the different creatures are portrayed, it also gives them different symbolic relevance to the viewers.

There are many similarities between the creatures
Next there is the con artist who posed as a bible sales man to rob Ulysses; the con artist is compared to the Cyclops from The Odyssey. At first it does not seem that a con artist and a Cyclops would have too much in common, but he coincidently had only one eye, and if that was not enough he also used a club to attack Ulysses just as the Cyclops had a club he used in The Odyssey. On a deeper level the con artist and the Cyclops serve the same purpose to both stories, which is to prevent Ulysses/ Odysseus from getting home to his wife. Then there are the 3 women who were washing their cloths in the river. These obviously were the writer's interpretation of the sirens from The Odyssey. And as in The Odyssey they attempted to prevent Ulysses from getting home, and also tempted him with lust, just as the sirens did. There is also the part in the movie where Ulysses and his companions came upon a KKK ceremony and lynching. The KKK represented the Laestrygonians from The Odyssey. This is because in both The Odyssey and O Bother Where Art Thou the Laestrygonians and the KKK were unexpected, and violent. Unexpected because in The Odyssey Odysseus did not expect to run into human eating giants, and for
First is the comparison between the sheriff and Poseidon, and while the sheriff like Poseidon was attempting to prevent Ulysses from getting home there are some big differences about them. There is the fact that with Poseidon, chronologically, was not introduced into the story until near the end, and the sheriff was introduced at the very beginning, and he played a bigger on face role in O Bother Where Art Thou than Poseidon did in the Odyssey. Also the sheriff had a group of deputies that he was always with, and on the other hand Poseidon did not have a group that he associated with in The Odyssey. Next there was the con artist who was the counterpart to the Cyclops in O Bother Where Art Thou. The biggest difference was that the con artist was human and the Cyclops was... a Cyclops. But beyond that, the con artist shows up later in the story as one of the KKK members, and on the other hand after Odysseus left the land of the Cyclops he was never herd of again in the story. Also there is the fact the in The Odyssey the Cyclops charictar devoured some of Odysseus crew, but eventually Odysseus prevailed and blinded the Cyclops