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"Odyssey" and "O Brother Where Art Thou?"., 2002.
A comparison between Homer's epic novel the 'Odyssey' and the adapted screenplay version of the epic film,"O Brother Where Art Thou?", directed and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen .
1,310 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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The following paper draws parallels between Homer?s "Odyssey" and the Coen Brother?s "O Brother Where Art Thou?". In the year 2000, the inventive and provocative filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen reworked the Odyssey in a liberal way, changing scenes, settings and characters. The writer compares the original epic and the original screenplay and discusses dozens of small but meaningful comparisons. For instance, Odysseus and his men descend into Hades where they encounter several ghosts from Odysseus?s past; in the film the boys meet a fellow inmate who they thought was dead. Odysseus from the original epic and Ulysses from the film (played by George Clooney) both have to prove to their wives that they are true: Ulysses must bring Penny the ring to redeem himself. In the Odyssey, Book 23, Penelope declares that ?there are tokens with which we two alone are acquainted,? (Butler trans.). Although it was written millennia ago in ancient Greece, the parables of the Odyssey remain extant for a reason: Its themes are universal and accessible and adaptable for all time. The Coen brothers' movie "O Brother Where Art Thou?" exemplifies Homer?s timelessness, as well as their own versatility.
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"Homer?s Odyssey is more than an epic tale of a man ?who wandered far and wide,? across the sea; it is an archetypal journey with universal and enduring import. It is not difficult to find parallels between Odysseus?s adventures and modern ones, for ultimately the Odyssey transcends its details. Homer erected a narrative structure that lends itself to adaptation and reconstruction. Most notable to modern reinterpretations of Homer?s Odyssey is James Joyce?s Ulysses, which focuses on and develops the relationship between father (Odysseus/Leopold Bloom) and son (Telemachus/Stephen Dedalus). In the year 2000, the inventive and provocative filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen reworked the Odyssey in an equally liberal way, changing scenes, settings, and characters. But whereas Joyce?s version of the Odyssey is microcosmic, its journey more psychological than physical, the Coen brothers? O Brother Where Art Thou? rambles through a decidedly physical and farcical tale. At first glance the film resembles Homer?s epic little: only certain elements are obvious like George Clooney?s character?s name (Ulysses) and the three sirens by the river. A deeper investigation of the film and the original text reveals numerous, if more subtle, references."
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Homer?s "The Odyssey" and Coen's Film, "O Brother Where Art Thou?", 2002.
This paper compares Odysseus from the epic poem, "The Odyssey" by Homer, and Ulysses Everett McGill from the film, "O Brother Where Art Thou?" by the Coen brothers.
1,780 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper explains that Odysseus and Ulysses Everett McGill seem to be two heroes who have little in common at first glance; but, in reality, they are quite a bit alike. The author stresses that the Coen brothers took much of their inspiration directly from Homer; however, they kicked Homer ?up a notch" with their modern look at an age-old story of triumph over evil and love conquering all in the end. The paper concludes that Odysseus, for all his strengths, seems a bit outdated and pass?, while McGill seems to be the type of hero that could make it in just about any century.
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"Throughout the poem, the reader sees Odysseus grow and mature. It is clear he is a sound and great leader, but he also learns to use his wits along with his authority, overcome temptation, and reach his goals by defeating incredible difficulties. The same can be said for Ulysses Everett McGill, the hero of "O Brother Where Art Thou?" McGill also must overcome incredible difficulties to get what he really wants at the end of the movie ? his wife and children back. McGill is a quick learner, like Odysseus he is a great leader, he manages to get his friends a pardon from the governor, and all ends happily, just as it does in "The Odyssey.""
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"O Brother, Where Art Thou?", 2002.
This paper reviews the Coen brothers' film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" that is based on Homer?s Odyssey.
680 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, £ 16.95
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This paper discusses that, in their film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", the Coen brothers built in ironic commentary that underscores the understanding of the story of Odysseus. The author classifies the film as a ?road picture?. The author states that like Homer the always-inventive Coen brothers have taken recognizable allusions to other movies and the surprise of new ones and blended them into a remarkable film.
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"Into this, they weave some very obscure allusions: Waldrop is the surname of Penny?s suitor and of Howard Waldrop who wrote a novel called A Dozen Tough Jobs, in which the central character is a modernized version of Hercules. The title of the movie comes from a 1941 play by Preston Sturgis, called Sullivan?s Travels, in which the protagonist must choose whether to obey the studios and create a facile, feel-good comedy or portray the real sufferings of exploited man."
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Joel Coen?s "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", 2004.
Analysis and review of the film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
1,156 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper presents a film review of Joel Coen's spoof on Homer's classic, "The Odyssey". The film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is summarized, and the characters and their roles are compared to the traditional notion of heroes and heroic actions as seen in "The Odyssey". The paper also points out the underlying social themes of the film and comments on the artistic use of music as an integral part of the film's success.
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"Based loosely on Homer?s Odyssey, including a hero with the same name, O Brother Where Art Thou is a tall tale of three convicts escaping from a chain gang in the Depression-era South. The hero, Ulysses Everett McGill (played by George Clooney), in keeping with the intended spoofiness and hilarity of the film, is the anti-thesis of the traditional hero. There is hardly anything noble about him. Yet, he fancies himself as a man of reason. Staunch allies usually support all heroes and O Brother stays with that tradition. However, the film is faithful to its mission of taking a hilarious look at heroes and adventures and so, McGill?s two partners, Pete (John Turturro) is an argumentative con while Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) is a sweet numbskull. Hardly, the epitome of men out on a serious mission!"
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Film: "O' Brother, Where Art Thou?", 2005.
This paper discusses elements of Homer's "Odysseus", which are found in the Coen brothers' comedic film "O' Brother, Where Art Thou?".
1,165 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 0 sources, £ 27.95
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This paper relates that the plot of the film "O' Brother, Where Art Thou?" evolves around the protagonist Everett and his friends, escaping from a Mississippi gang and going in search of 1.4 million dollars, which Everett claims to have hidden in a valley flooded by the lake, and continues with some very bizarre incidents, characteristic of the Coen brother's work. The author points out that, although the Coen brothers did not directly base their film on Homer's "Odyssey", there are many references to it, such as the three friends stumbling across a blind prophet who predicts their future as the Homer's sirens did. The paper explains another reference: The hero of the film is trying to get back to Ithaca in Mississippi; whereas, in the classic, Odysseus is trying to get back to Ithaca in Greece.
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"Like in the epic, the movie starts of with reference to the rural Mississippi. This, too, is just a fantasy place and not reality like most of the rest of the movie. In the movie, the three heroes on a journey home, come across a political campaign and are shoved into a radio station and are mistaken for radio stars. They also stumble upon a Klan Meeting and are on the way to Everett's wife who is going to marry another guy who does not get himself thrown into jail all the time, and fortunately, (or rather unfortunately), they happen to have seven daughters who she plans to pack off. This makes you wonder how illusionary and fable-like the film sounds."
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"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"--A Film Review, 2007.
This paper reviews the recent film "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" which starred George Clooney.
1,020 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, £ 25.95
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This paper reviews the film about an epic quest entitled "Brother Where art Thou?" which was based on Homer's "The Odyssey." The paper describes the adventures the protagonists faced and the various references the film made to Homer's original work. The reviewer also examines the goal of Ulysses, the main character in the movie, and concludes it is a righteous goal, even if he attempts to achieve it in a dubious manner.
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"The three face many adventures, including many references to Homer's epic poem. They meet a blind oracle who tells them they will have many adventures and face many "ob-stack-ales." They meet sirens, and Cyclops, and many other characters, just as Ulysses discovers the same things in his journey. The film does not seem to have the same outcome as the poem, but in the end, it does, and that is one of the things that makes it so enjoyable. The viewer does not know what is coming until the end, and the journey is complete."
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G. M. Hopkins "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord", 2003.
This paper discusses the sonnet "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 5 sources, £ 16.95
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This paper presents a short biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins, followed by an analysis of his sonnet, "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord". The author notes that none of Hopkins work were published until after his death at age 44 from typhoid fever. The paper relates that he gave up writing for a while after he became a Jesuit priest and destroyed all his earlier work.
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"Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford in England on July... . He was the son of a prosperous and artistic family and studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford in ... . In two years after reading John Henry Newman's ... "
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John Keats' "Bright Star, Would I Were as Thou Art", 2004.
A close analysis of John Keats' "Bright Star, Would I Were as Thou Art".
1,395 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 32.95
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This paper analyzes Keats' poem with respect to the laws of a Shakespearean sonnet and the spirit of the Romantics. The paper examines the wording, motif, style, diction, religious associations and use of personification to analyze and interpret the meaning of the poem.
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"In his poem, "Bright Star, Would I Were as Thou Art"(1819), Keats (John, 1795-1821) allows a close insight into a moment of intimacy between lovers while one is sound asleep and the other--who narrates--wishes to eternally stand guard beside his beloved one. By constructing a definite scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet, Keats exploits the classical elements of such a love sonnet (e.g., courtly love, masculine subjection before a mistress, and so on) to the advantage of, generally, the themes and ideals of his time , such as the mystery in nature, solitude, the meditation of the creative spirit; where personally, Keats 'injects' into the poem the themes more common of his style: the recognition of the claims of passion and emotion in the living and the vulnerability and temporality in human life as overshadowed by death. An even more intimate perception of the poem would eventually reveal the innuendoes related to Keats' own tragic love-life, and not in vain, for it was characteristic of the poets of that period to "invite [their] readers to identify the hero with the writer. ""
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Ulysses Everett McGill and Charlie Wales: Getting it Together?, 2002.
A discussion of the similarities and differences between Ulysses Everett McGill, the main character of the Coen Brothers' film "O Brother Where Art Thou?" and Charlie Wales, the main character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited".
1,640 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This essay compares and contrasts the main characters of the film 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' written and directed by the Coen brothers and the short story 'Babylon Revisited' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, also made into a film. What seems at first an unlikely comparison turns out to be revealing. Ulysses Everett McGill and Charlie Wales are from vastly different backgrounds and social strata yet face similar dilemmas. Wales the wealthy socialite would seem more likely to succeed in his case to retrieve his daughter and get his life together. However, it is the escaped convict McGill, whose Ulysses-like Odyssey is discussed in depth, who succeeds in his quest, while the "recovering" alcoholic Wales is frustrated and delayed.
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"Ulysses Everett McGill, the central character in the film, O Brother Where Art Thou? produced in 2000, and Charlie Wales, the main character in the F. Scott Fizgerald story, ?Babylon Revisited,? published in 1931, and made into a movie in 1954, may at first glance appear to be vastly different, but turn out to share similarities. Ulysses Everett McGill and Charlie Wales are from vastly different classes and backgrounds, yet both live in approximately the same time period, the 1920s/30s, the time of the Great Depression and both are men deprived of wife and family. Neither one is exactly the ordinary man surviving under the duress of the depression. McGill is a crude and lowly escaped convict fleeing through the Bible belt, while the sophisticated Wales, who still seems to have plenty of money and social status despite the crash, is visiting Paris. Both want to get their lives back into some semblance of togetherness. Each seems to be continually sabotaged in his quest. As we watch both men we wonder if the destructive energy comes from outside or is inner generated. The resemblances are many, but the differences are greater, especially when it comes to the end results of their attempts to get it together."
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Homer and Coen Compared, 2002.
A comparison and contrast of "The Odyssey" by Homer and the Film "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" By Joel Coen.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper will compare and contrast the movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" and compare the events of the movie with the Homeric epic "The Odyssey", which it is said to be modeled after. By understanding how they made this movie from the ancient Greek fable, we can learn the nature of the direction it takes and how closely it resembles it. It also shows how the modern twist the movie takes can give us an idea of how it is different in this scope.
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"The Brothers Karamazov" ( Fyodor Dostoevsky ), 1999.
Compares the characters of passionate brother Dmitri and rational atheist brother Ivan.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, £ 32.95
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A plan is detailed for the marketing of skateboards produced in the United States in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Marketing objectives, pro forma financial statements, and resource requirements are addressed.
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A plan is detailed for the marketing of skateboards produced in the United States in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Marketing objectives, pro forma financial statements, and resource requirements are addressed.Because of this contrast, the brothers inevitably clash.
Dmitri, also known as Mitya in the novel, is immediately shown to be a man who lives a wayward life of passion:
He spent an irregular boyhood and youth. . . . He did not finish his studies at the gymnasium, he got into a military school, . . . fought a duel, and was degraded, . . . led a wild life, and spent a good deal of money (6).
Dmitri is, in his critical father's eyes, "frivolous..."
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The Odyssey, 2004.
A review of two modern novels that both deal with the theme of a personal odyssey.
1,657 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper presents a review of two novels, both of which use Homer's ideas in "The Odyssey". The first is Mary Piak Lee's autobiography, "Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America", in which the author travels to America as a child. The second, Lydia Yuri Minatoya?s odyssey within her memoir, "In Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey", is also about finding her place in the world.
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"Mary Piak Lee's autobiography, Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America, is the story of her childhood in career, and her life after she and her parents move to America. Quiet Odyssey begins unassumingly enough as Paik Lee notes, "Korea, a small country attached to the northeast of china had been independent for centuries before 1882." She notes that the Japanese takeover of Korea in the early 1900s "began a long history of aggression against Korea and created the unhappy world in which the Koreas have lived since 1905. It is in the climate of this political upheaval that Paik Lee's journey begins. She enjoys a quite life in Korea, with extended family."
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Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", 2005.
This paper discusses Willa Cather's 'O Pioneers!', her second published novel, about homesteaders in Nebraska in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
2,715 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 0 sources, £ 56.95
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This paper explains that the protagonist in Willa Cather's 'O Pioneers!' is a woman, Swedish by birth, who worked her land up to rich production and brought prosperity to her whole family; for the time the novel was written, this was somewhat out of the ordinary. The author is impressed by the way Cather set the mood in her story by beginning with a Great Plains winter scene as the backdrop to the struggle of the Borgson family, which was going to lose their father no matter what anyone did. The paper stresses that, in the time and place O Pioneers! was written, a father was the one with the power, not the mother, and the attitudes expressed by the brothers also provide a clear denunciation of patriarchy.
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"Perhaps in our time it is difficult to imagine that people would actually just do what they were told by a dying father but that was the world of late Victorian America and I believe that in setting the story as she did, the case can be made that Cather did criticize patriarchy. She made it very plain. If the father had not commanded, the brothers would have been in charge and Alexandra's fine capabilities would have been relegated to the kitchen. As the story progresses it isn't hard to see what would have happened to the family farm if the brothers had been running things. They are not only easily discouraged, but time and again it is shown that they just plain don't have Alexandra's ability to look at a situation and see a creative, positive way to deal with it. She not only keeps the original homestead, but as others in the areas do give up under drought and other challenges, she mortgages the home farm to buy these places as well."
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Identity and Myth in "The Odyssey", 2008.
An exploration of the problem of identity and the role of mythology in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey."
2,967 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 60.95
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This paper explores selected themes in Homer's Odyssey. The writer analyzes the use of disguise in the story to conceal identity, and how Penelope finally identifies Odysseus as her husband in spite of his disguise. The writer examines the role of Athena, who also changes her identity repeatedly, as the mythical power behind Odysseus, and the one who transforms him into an old beggar before his return to Ithaca. The writer discusses the paradoxes that arise from concealing and from changing identities in the story, and concludes that, whether disguised or not, Odysseus is always a powerful presence throughout the story.
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ONE: Among the Most Important Scenes in The Odyssey: Penelope and Odysseus
TWO: Theories of Myth and The Odyssey
THREE: Ways in Which Identity is an Important Theme in The Odyssey
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"This story has within it a lot of imagery and straightforward references about the identity of people, and their changing identities affect the theme of the story. Homer is writing about characters and their identity all though the story; some characters change their identity, some even hide their identity, and it seems as if the symbol of those confusing changes of identity comes down to the poet looking at a common human problem."
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