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    Warner Brothers 2004 Production of Troy. The movie and the myth were both based on the Trojan War. They were both very interesting‚ and captivating. It was stimulating to see it in 2 different points of views. Both the movie and the myth of Troy were great. They had similarities‚ but there were also some very strong differences. In Edith Hamilton’s Synopsis of the Trojan War‚ it focused on many of the gods of Olympus. For example‚ in the synopsis‚ conversations between the gods happen from time to time

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    Arthur Miller’s movie‚ The Crucible and the play both have heaps of connections and diversities. All of them help forward a underscored message in both of the productions of the Crucible. Arthur Miller diligently made it clear to consolidate countless differences from correlating the two‚ you can conveniently identify the changes‚ additions‚ deletions‚ and the character patroyal. The changes in the movie are deeply flamboyant. One of the biggest changes is the main event for the cause of the Salem

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    everyone possessed the means to read and write so when something was written it possessed a certain sense of strong meaning and truthfulness‚ whether or not the story was fabricated. I believe two of the most well-known stories that reflect this are The Iliad and The Aeneid. These stories were considered epics or “poems telling of an adventure of a legendary person.” Even though the stories differ by context and plot I believe that they are‚ in certain literary means‚ two of the same stories. We can arrive

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    and depth of the book might produce a movie has many deleted or developed events. This change can lead to different results: add more excitement to the story or unclear point to the viewers. The limited time of movies‚ which is mostly 1.5- 3 hours‚ force the director to do editing and delete many parts of the movie. Although The Help movie deleted many characters and events from the novel‚ it did not effect on the success. The researcher thinks that the movie was not as good the book because there were

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    The Movie or the Book? Nicholas Sparks has written multiple novels that have evolved into movies‚ such as The Notebook‚ The Last Song‚ Dear John‚ Message in a Bottle‚ and A Walk to Remember. The movies previously mentioned are as equally good as the novels except for Dear John. To me‚ Dear John is one of the best books written by Nicholas Sparks‚ yet the movie is the worst. The plot is excellent‚ but it is poorly portrayed in the movie. Several literary elements are found in both the movie and the

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    that the fight between Achilles and Hektor is portrayed. In the Iliad‚ the Trojan army starts running into the city walls when they see Achilles approaching on his chariot towards them. Instead of running‚ Hektor stays to fight him but ends up running away from him and runs around the city walls. This is shown in the Iliad - book 22‚ line 126-127 - with the quote of‚ ‘Hector’s flight… along the wall he flew‚’ which shows him running away from the vengeful Achilles. In the movie Troy‚ Hektor is inside

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    costumes‚ the movie Troy was a Hollywood movie that was certainly a box office hit. I am not sure if you know this but Troy was based on the Iliad an epic by Homer. Aside from the excitement during the movie‚ unfortunately it proved to be a loose adaptation of Homer’s classic and I could not help but notice the major differences between the book and the movie. One of the most major differences between the book and the movie was the absence of the Gods in the movie. In Homer’s Iliad‚ the Gods played

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    Key Questions for Book XVI 1. Achilles does not agree to end his grudge with Agamemnon at the request of Patroclus as the great warrior views what Agamemnon has done – snatching his prize right from his grasp‚ the beautiful and clever princess Briseis – as an insult to his pride and honour. The fact that‚ according to the epic‚ Agamemnon did so in front of the rest of the Achaean army‚ only adds to Achilles’ humiliation. 2. Achilles agrees that instead of him casting away his grief and thinking

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    you seen this before? How are the passages similar? How are they different? What does this similarity/ difference tell us about a larger similarities/differences in the works of a whole? Example from teacher: Aeneid line 404-424 (Dido is broken hearted) Odyssey: 212-225 (Calypso- "Can I be less desirable?") similarity: both have broken-hearts- the protagonist is leaving them difference: Aneid- Rome calls‚ going to Italy to build a new home/ Dido refuses to accept his leaving/ Dido is simply

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    Although both works are credited to Homer‚ The Iliad and The Odyssey provide two remarkably different views on the nature of the Olympian Gods‚ their relationship to humanity‚ and the general lot of mortals throughout their all too brief lives. As a result of these differences‚ both stories end up sending contrasting messages about life in general. In the Iliad‚ the supernatural denizens of Olympus are depicted as treacherous‚ power-hungry‚ and above all temperamental beings

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