Odysseus Compare And Contrast

The movie has many similar aspects in comparison to the poem that includes the setting,characters, conflicts, main events, themes, and the Greek mythology elements. There are alsomany differences between the Poem and the movie. Quite a few things make the poem andmovie different from each other. Some things aren’t big differences but there are a lot more ofthe small differences too. It’s also pretty obvious and easy to point out the differences once youare watching the movie.One example, in the book, No one was killed but there is one guy killed in the movie whileescaping from the cyclops. Another difference is when in the book, Odysseus and his soldiersescaped at night, but in the movie they escaped in the morning. One of the more majordifferences that I personally thought made the book better was in the book, Odysseus is the onewho had the idea to stab cyclops in the eye and get him drunk, well in the movie that wasn’texactly the case, this is different from the movie because in the movie Odysseus is not the onewho stabs cyclops in the eye, it was one of his men. Although this scene was done in both movieand
The difference when theystayed with Circe for a year in the book but five in the movie, I found neither of them to reallymake much of a difference between the book and poem, either or she ended up letting him free.Although the poem and movie have some differences. I enjoyed watching the movie and itactually caught my eye with all the struggles Odysseus had to go through before he made it hometo his wife and son. Some scenes I liked better than others. I find the poem a bit more interestingthough because the poem had more specific things being