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O Brother Where Art Thou And Odysseus Comparison

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Both the Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou? focus on the homecoming of a hero, however both vary in how the character is greeted upon return.Within the Odyssey the hero, Odysseus, returns home to find suitors attempting to woo his wife and gain her hand in marriage. After which, bloodbath ensues and there is a glorious scene in which Odysseus defeats the suitors is described as “a lion moving off from feeding on a farmyard ox, his whole chest and both sides of his muzzle caked with blood”, (Book XXI, lines 500-502). This line shows that Odysseus’s return is glorious, showing him as a soldier who has fought hard to return home. However, in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the hero, Ulysses is not met with such a return. Upon return,
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