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    This document compares plot elements and characters between Homer's epic poem The Odyssey and the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?. It lists corresponding events such as both works beginning with an invocation to the Muse and their protagonists escaping imprisonment. Key characters like Odysseus/Ulysses, Circe, and the Cyclops also have counterparts in the film that parallel their roles in The Odyssey. The document provides a side-by-side comparison of these connecting elements between the ancient text and modern adaptation.

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    This document compares plot elements and characters between Homer's epic poem The Odyssey and the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?. It lists corresponding events such as both works beginning with an invocation to the Muse and their protagonists escaping imprisonment. Key characters like Odysseus/Ulysses, Circe, and the Cyclops also have counterparts in the film that parallel their roles in The Odyssey. The document provides a side-by-side comparison of these connecting elements between the ancient text and modern adaptation.

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    The Odyssey Vs o Brother

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    This document compares plot elements and characters between Homer's epic poem The Odyssey and the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?. It lists corresponding events such as both works beginning with an invocation to the Muse and their protagonists escaping imprisonment. Key characters like Odysseus/Ulysses, Circe, and the Cyclops also have counterparts in the film that parallel their roles in The Odyssey. The document provides a side-by-side comparison of these connecting elements between the ancient text and modern adaptation.

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    The Odyssey vs. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    This comparison lists events and characters in both of the artistic works that correlate with each
    other.

    O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Odyssey

    Begins with an invocation to the Muse Begins with an invocation to the


    Muse

    Escapes from jail Escapes from Calypso and various


    other monsters

    Ulysses (George Clooney) Odysseus

    Clooney has 2 prison buddies Odysseus has a crew

    Railroad homeless man is a blind fortune teller Teiresias is a blind fortune teller

    Hobo predicts Ulysses wont get the treasure he Teiresias says Odysseus will take
    seeks many years to get home

    Takes place during the Great Depression Takes place around 1200BC

    Cousin Washington Hogwallop was a pig, needed Circe turns men into pigs
    money and sold out Ulysses

    Baptism at the river draws in Ulysses friends Lotus Eaters draw in Odysseus crew
    Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx

    Blind record/radio man Homer

    George Babyface Nelson - thief Hermes - God of thieves

    George Nelson hates cows, and killed Odysseus crew killed Helios cows,
    them. Eventually, Nelson was killed and a person in and were smote by Helios
    the angry mob chasing him yells: Cow killer!

    Women washing clothes in a river drew in Odysseus Sirens draw in men with song in the
    and his friends while singing sea

    Delmar thinks the women on the river turned Pete into Circe turns men into pigs
    a horny toad

    Big Dan (Daniel Teague) has one eye Cyclops has one eye

    Big Dan = pastor = pasture = shepherd Cyclops is shepherd of his sheep

    Ulysses and Delmar anger Big Dan Odysseus and crew anger the
    Cyclops
    Big Dan kills the toad thats supposedly Pete Cyclops kills some of the crew

    Vernon T. Waldrip is courting Ulysses wife in his Suitors are courting Odysseus wife
    absence in his absence

    Ulysses was supposedly hit by a train Odysseus was supposedly killed in


    the war

    Ulysses, Pete, and Delmar dress as the KKK to Odysseus and his crew hide under
    escape with Tommy the sheep to escape the Cyclops lair

    Big Dan is almost stabbed in the eye Cyclops is stabbed in the eye

    Ulysses dressed as a hobo to see his wife Odysseus dressed as a beggar to


    see his wife

    Jail warden with his dog chases the convicts Poseidon is out to get Odysseus,
    throughout the movie and causes trouble for Odysseus
    throughout his journey home

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