In the film, Odyssey, the directors utilize characterization, setting, and music to enhance the audience’s experience and portray the theme of Homer’s epic tale. Characterization is one of the most significant tools that the directors used. It compelled the audience to feel sympathy towards the characters and stressed the most prominent theme, vengeance. The directors used emotional scenes in which the characters appeared to the audience as relatable. In the film, the directors redid the part of
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In The Odyssey, Homer tells a tale about the main character Odysseus as goes through many trials and tribulations on his journey home. Homer’s tales shows many important things about the Greeks and their views about life. One of things he shows through his story are the qualities of leadership. The Odyssey shows many important qualities of leadership, three of the most important qualities of leadership are determination, courage and intelligence. The Odyssey shows that one of the most important
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The Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff has various characters within the novel. Character traits are how to identify some of these characters personalities. Hector a Trojan warrior sticks out from the rest of the Trojan army because he is a great warrior and some of the gods love him. Hector is a great warrior and leader for the Trojans and he is brave and loyal to the Trojan army. One of Hectors traits is bravery and how he will fight for the Trojan army. Hector overlooks a bad omen
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power as a warrior are what largely sets him apart from others, like Achilles. His intelligence and wit allow him to survive situations that could have gone badly if he had not fully thought out his “game plan.” For example, the use of the Trojan Horse in The Iliad was Odysseus’ idea. And it was a brilliant one. Had he not thought of it, the outcome of the war most likely would have been quite different. Unlike someone like Achilles, Odysseus really is not a “superhuman.” He does not have super physical
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The opening prologue of Homer’s famous Iliad speaks of the quick-tempered Akhilleus, about his inability to solve conflicts peaceably and the consequences he faces because of this. “Anger be now your song, immortal one,/Akhilleus’ anger, doomed and ruinous,/that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss [. . . .]” (Iliad, I:1-3). Throughout the epic, Akhilleus struggles with his own barbaric nature. He also struggles with Troy’s prince Hektor, his opposite in personality. Akhilleus is the embodiment
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The Odyssey was written by homer as an ode detailing the adventures that Odysseus went through until he was able to return to his home in Ithaca. The labors and hardships that Odysseus went through were after the Greek had emerged victorious in their battle at Troy. However, there were some gods who were displeased with a proclamation that Odysseus had made and due to that he was made to wonder in the seas for ten years before he returned to Ithaca (Foley, 10). The recollection of those tribulations
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We all have a personal journey we go through in life, no matter how privileged you may think you are, there will always be a struggle you must face. Odysseus was the king of Ithica, a job that many only could wish they had, he had it all, but he made a mistake. He upset the gods and made his journey home from Troy anything but smooth. His mission was to return home while enduring the many obstacles life threw at him along the way. For me, I had to endure the equally terrifying obstacles at my destination
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Odysseus lived in the late bronze age of the 13th century B.C and he played a major role in the Trojan War. He committed to fighting in the war and being away from his wife for 20 years. Odysseus’s idea of the Trojan horse helped the Greeks defeat Troy. I feel like Odysseus was a hero because of his contribution to the war, his idea of the wooden Trojan horse, and his loyalty in a spiritual and physical sense. Odysseus was a hero because of his contribution to the war. Without him, the Greeks would
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In both the epic, The Odyssey and movie, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, the Odysseus characters act similarly. Both Clooney and Odysseus are the leaders and spokesmen for the group. Meaning, both men have hubris and make all the decisions that affect the group. In the epic, Odysseus’ life starts declining after blinding the cyclops, when he gives away his identity. Odysseus wants the cyclops to know his name so he will seem more heroic to other travelers for blinding him. It was giving away his identity
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Another character who has a fragmented hero’s journey is Odysseus from The Odyssey. Odysseus is the hero in this story despite his flaws, and his hero’s journey is his road back home where “home” is the elixir. His hero’s journey follows the guidelines well, missing steps or ghosting over some. The first steps starting with Ordinary world and ending with crossing the threshold are substituted for Odysseus’s fight in the Trojan war that lasts ten years. Because he was taken from his ordinary world
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