The Cyclops in O brother where art thou, fought the main character to get Everett’s money. The Cyclopes in both movies weren’t the same kind of Cyclopes. In both O brother where art thou and, the Odyssey the both had men trying to take the main characters families. In the Odyssey the men wanted to marry the main character’s wife for the royalty. In the movie O brother where art thou the man that wanted to marry the main character’s wife actually liked Everett’s wife.
Odysseus’ whole journey is to return home and be with his wife and son again. The same story goes for Ulysses Everett McGill, who just wants to be with his family again. Ulysses is the Roman way of saying Odysseus, another item in common. When both characters finally return home after many years and obstacles, the journey still was not over. Odysseus had to fight of twenty suitors who were all trying to marry his wife, Penelope.
He leaves Corinth and travels to Thebes, and on the way he unknowingly kills his father during a quarrel. After saving Thebes from the Sphinx, he is given the hand of Queen Jocasta, his mother, for marriage and he becomes the new king of Thebes. One of the many reasons Oedipus is a coward is that he didn’t want to face his parent s again. His thought at the moment when he blinds himself is that if he killed himself he will see his real parents in the underworld, who he had committed those crimes against. Instead of repenting for his sins he escapes them.
Penelope , in Greek mythology, wife of Odysseus and the mother of Telemachus. In Homer's Odyssey she is pictured as a chaste and faithful wife. When Odysseus was away, she was surrounded by suitors who tried to persuade her that he would never return. She agreed to choose another husband when she finished weaving her father-in-law's shroud, but this was never done, for she unraveled by night what she wove by day. At last her strategem was discovered, and the suitors were enraged.
He killed his wife's suitors and finally got to see his son, Telemachu, that he left when he was just a baby to go fight in the Trojan War. He killed and fought his way through the wrath of Poseidon to get home to the ones he loved and that is why he is an epic hero. As you can see he has plenty accomplishments there are more and better than
As the suitors are Odysseus’s mortal antagonists, Poseidon is his divine antagonist. He despises Odysseus for blinding his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, and constantly hampers his journey home. Ironically, Poseidon is the patron of the seafaring Phaeacians, who ultimately help to return Odysseus to Ithaca. Calypso - The beautiful nymph who falls in love with Odysseus when he lands on her island-home of Ogygia. Calypso holds him prisoner there for seven years until Hermes, the messenger god, persuades her to let him go.
He fails and is defeated by the suitors. Athena becomes his protector and keeps his confidence up and helps him throughout his journey. She encourages Telemachus to leave the island to go see if his father is still alive. The suitors would have killed him if he stayed in Ithica. He could not return until it was safe for him to come back, but only if he found
he went home but found that the beggars were there keeping his wife in until they killed her husband. So he decides to pretend he is one of the suiters and competes to be with the wife. His wife would only pick the man who can do the thing her husband can do. She had no idea it was her husband in the running , neither did the suitors that is proven when they say “you nosing rat / making your pitch to everyone”(line 1213-1214). He was just one of the others.
Poseidon is mad a odysseus because he blinded his son the king of the Cyclops Athena disguised herself as an old friend of odysseus, then as a captain among the soldiers, then as the son of anchialus and an old friend of odysseus. Athena advises telemachaus to look for his father. If he finds his father he kills the suitors if not they have a proper funeral and his mom can remarry penelopie says that she cannot choose a husband until she finishes weaving which she unravels each night An omen is a sign of what is to come Zeus sends eagles as a sign Athena took the shape of telmeachus and gathered a ship and crew. Nestor has opinions of odysseus Nestor was amazed when he realizes that telemachos’s companion is Athena he says telem.
In fact, some of the monsters in the story knew he was an epic hero, such as Circe in Book 10 (Line 56) “ ‘ What champion, of what country, can you be?’”, Odysseus finally justify himself to Poseidon, who finally let him return to home. As soon as he got home, he needed to conquer one last challenge. In order to see his wife, Penelope again, he had to kill the army of suitors that were waiting at his front door for Penelope’s hand in marriage. He killed each and every single one of the men. For this reason, Odysseus have had proven himself to be an epic