The epic journey The Odyssey by, homer is an epic story written a very long time ago. Some time later a movie based off the book The Odyssey this movie has the same feel and only uses homers ideas dose not copy them completely. This movies title is O brother where are thou? The epic The Odyssey is about a man named Odysseus. He had just fought a war in troy and is on his way home to Ithaca, but on the way he runs into the wrong things and soon becomes years before he is able to get home.
The main character in O Brother, Where Art Thou is Ulysses, an escapes prisoner who was part of a chain gang. This supports that fact that Odysseus and Ulysses comes from different backgrounds. Both characters share many similarities. Both of them are selfish and do not really care about their companions. Odysseus did not warn his men about Scylla because he was afraid they would abandon him, so he only uses his men to sail the ship, which shows that his own intentions are more important to him than the lives of his crewmen.
Monomyth Essay: The Game Monomyth means one story. In the story all heroes undergo a similar journey, one consisting of three Rites of Passages: Separation, Initiation, and Return. A rite is a ceremonial act or series of acts. First Rite of Passage represents the separation from the hero’s known world and self. Pre-Separation before the hero’s journey life may be enjoyable or miserable making the hero wish for more out of life.
One, for instance, is when Zeus complains about the mortal beings to the other gods. He says how “reckless”(78) they are and how they always put blame on the gods. He said, “How shameless--the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone, they say, come all their miseries, yes, but they themselves, with their own reckless ways, compound their pains beyond their proper share.”(78) Zeus clearly explains his whole hearted resentment towards the mortal beings that blame them. Although it seems that way, he is clearly thrilled that the mortals still think of them everyday.
Gilgamesh became a more compassionate human as he honored his friend, mentor, and companion, as he “and the aged men and woman of Uruk mourned” after Enkidu’s death (Jackson 53). Gilgamesh was depressed to see someone he had grown so close to, taken away so easily. He angrily protested to the gods “why create a life and take it away so quickly” (Jackson 55). Enkidu’s death brought so much grief to the life of Gilgamesh; he felt it was his destiny to live forever. However, it was Enkidu who told him that his destiny is already pre determined and he needs to accept his mortality and live with his pains.
The Odyssey An epic is a long narrative poem and is told as a story. An epic hero is one that has a goal and has been embarked upon a long journey. In an epic, the hero is capable of being a great leader or a weak one. The Odyssey is an epic about a hero who is on a journey to see his family which he hasn’t seen in many years. Odysseus, the epic hero of The Odyssey is faced with many obstacles that could destroy his hopes of ever seeing his family again.
He or she engage in mortal conflict and finally return home again, with or without the life-sustaining thing that motivated the quest-journey in the first place. This is known as a hero’s journey because the person in the end is known as a hero because he or she went through so much and found their way home. In the Odyssey, Odysseus leaves home to fight in the Trojan War, which is the life-sustaining thing that motivates this journey he goes on to return home. In the end all he gained were his stories and the curses that he has received from different conflicts in the cities he traveled too. He also gets a reward, which is reuniting with his wife Penelope and restoring order to Ithaca and resuming life in his rightful place as
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However, shortly thereafter Victor's emotions change. Victor says, "But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart" (Shelley 55). After realizing his creation's horror, his feelings toward him change and he begins to loathe his experiment. He was happy that he finished creating the creature on one hand but in the end he bang to feel sickened and appalled at his work of art which then leads to the cause of a downfall in his life altogether. The creature survived
Now Macbeth, is left without the only friend he had left, and has to now make decisions for himself, his former drive for power and status, which was his wife has disintegrated. Since Macbeth was left alone, we see a huge change in his personality and the way he acts. He is not a brave and courageous warrior anymore, now he is just a scared and insecure man who kills anybody that he thinks is a