The Odyssey was a book that changed life for the people of Ancient Rome. It gave them lessons to live by, and taught them the importance of believing in their gods. The main character was able to show this important message in the book, because of the plot following his return home. He was captured, and lost many of his crew member’s lives, because he did not trust the gods like a man of that time was supposed to. This book also inspired the movie ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’, a movie where a man escapes from jail and is in need to return home before his wife gets remarried. Religion is one of the major themes from the book that showed up in this movie. The people around Everett (the man who represented Odysseus in the movie,) are very religious and sensitive to Everett’s lack of belief. The Coen brothers were able to use events inspired from the book to show how strong the idea of religion is in any given society, including the modern society shown in the movie and the ancient society represented in The Odyssey. …show more content…
The scene starts with a large group who are singing songs about God and walking into the stream. They are then getting baptized in the stream one by one. Once Everett and the two men he escaped prison with (who represented the crew members) saw what was going on, the two men ran into the stream and insisted on being baptized as well. The Coen brothers were able to modernize this event by showing how fast religion spreads in a civilization. Once people find something like religion they don’t trade it for anything, and both of these pieces fully show