shield and bravely face the next army or monster. Then we begin to see more of the challenges do not require our hero to fight his way out. These threats are the most difficult problems for Odysseus to overcome. The tests like the isle of the lotus eaters‚ Circe’s island‚ and Calypso’s island were the hardest challenges for Odysseus. His encounter with Polyphemus the Cyclops‚ the Laestrygonians‚ Charybdis and Scyylla‚ and the kingdom of the dead: these dangers were on his level‚ heroic
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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
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surface in the discussion of the similarities between Homerís classic epic and ìO Brother Where Art Thou?î The Cyclops encounter for instance‚ is transcendent between both works. Furthermore‚ each story contains a comparable perspective of the Lotus Eaters. Finally‚ the strongest parallel between the ìOdysseyî and ìO Brother‚ Where Art Thou?î is the mystical call of the Sirens and the powers of the witch goddess Circe. The Cyclops encounter is transcendent between both works. The Cyclops
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a lake. This is a similarity to the Lotus-Eaters Odysseus’s men encounter. When you eat the intoxicating fruit of the lotus the thought of home‚ purpose of voyage‚ and memories of the past are no longer important. Odysseus and his men arrive at the land of the Lotus-Eaters and become addicted and drawn to the fruit. They are so drawn to the fruit‚ that it becomes a mindless obsession. “O Brother‚ Where Art Thou?” becomes parallel to the story of the Lotus-Eaters when Ulysses and his men are baptized
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o-diss-ee-oos. Odysseus and Ulysses are the same person. The name was different because Odysseus is Greek and Ulysses is English. In the poem tells that Odysseus struggle to return home for 10 years following the Trojan War. During his struggle he met Lotus-eaters‚ Cyclops‚ Aeolus‚ Scylla and Charybdis‚ and Calypso. Homer’s work was considered a fiction because there is no proof that Odysseus ever existed. Odysseus characters was known for his brave‚ cunning‚ versatility‚ and brilliant mind‚ along with his
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They offered them lotus and the ones who accepted the lotus and ate it was never seen again. Then they were all tied up by Odysseus and driven to their rowing benches. They were told not to eat the lotus because they would die. They left because the Lotus Eaters were killing people with their lotus. Most people were forgetting about their homeland because of how mesmerized they were while staying with the Lotus Eaters. The reason I know this is because it stated‚ “They
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were mighty by invading Cicones. • Odysseus lost 6 benches of men per ship. • The gesture or ritual they perform is that they cry out 3 times per person who was lost. • Zeus raised a storm that lasted 9 days. Lotus Eaters • The race of men that occupied the coast was the Lotus
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and hunger‚ is what controls their fate. One of the first temptations in the Odyssey is the longing for home. The first encounter with this temptation is at the land of the Lotus eaters. On their way from Troy‚ Odysseus and his men land on the island of the lotus eaters. The native people there give the men a plant name lotus. But‚ this is no ordinary plant‚ and the temptation to eat was irrespirable. This plant erased all memory of home and family from even the strongest minded man. The men had
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other temptation would be that of the Lotus Eaters. After getting blown off course from the bag of winds the landed on the island of Lotus Eaters‚ the people on the island did not want to kill them‚ but gave them lotuses. In this temptation The Odyssey describe the plant like a drug to where they ingested and forget all their main priorities. “Any crewmen who ate the lotus…lost all desire to send message back…their only wish to linger there with the lotus-eaters…” (The Odyssey
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difficult too. He informs Everett “...you must travel a road fraught with peril” (O…Thou). His message reflects the information Tiresias discusses with Odysseus. Meetings with the Lotus Eaters shows another example of similarities in the characters’ encounters with others. Sweet-tasting lotus-flowers from the Lotus Eaters attract some of Odysseus’s men‚ and the rest of the men must pull them back to ship. Sinners washing away their sins away in the river attract Pete and Delmar‚ who want to rid themselves
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