The poem “The Odyssey” and the movie O, Brother Where Are Thou were about two men and their struggle to get home. They were similar in many ways, yet they were also very different. Some of the similarities are more obvious and some of them are somewhat discrete. It was a very good way of showing what happened to Odysseus in a more modern way.
In “The Odyssey” the main character’s name is Odysseus, which in Roman is Ulysses. Odysseus was on a journey home from the Trojan War. He had a wife named Penelope. He had one child, son named Telemachus. Odysseus had a crew made up of twelve men.
In the movie O, Brother Where Art Thou, the main character’s name was Ulysses Everett McGill, but he went by Everett. He was on a journey for a “treasure” after escaping from jail. His wife was a woman named Penny, short for Penelope. Everett had seven young daughters. He had two friends that escaped from jail with him, Peter and Delmar.
Odysseus encountered many......

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Title: The Odyssey Vs. O, Brother Where Art Though
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