Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And The Odyssey

Trini Vang

Mrs. Stobbe

PAP English 9 - 5th block

9 December 2022

The Odyssey Essay

Compared to other events, a human's life is concise, and one should live without regrets. However, some people tend to waste those years or have them be taken away and never be able to gain them back. The concepts of lost years of life can be found in the Odyssey by Homer through a character having a faithful spouse, a curse from a god, and a theme. The book Odyssey is about a man named Odysseus trying to return home from a long war. He comes across countless of challenges during this trip and meet countless new people while losing others.

Both of Homer and Maupassant protagonist’s partners are faithful to them even though their partners have been lousy. After waiting years and years, Odysseus’s wife gives up, “My husband being long gone, long out of mind.” thinking

evil. When Odysseus returns to Circe’s island, she tells him how there is an “evil” and how it “cannot die” (Homer 12. 79-80). Odysseus adventures into the underworld and, after talking to Telemachus, returns to Circe's island. Once arrived Circe tells Odysseus the dangers that he will run into after he leaves the island with his crew. She talks about sirens, birds with a woman's face on them, and who have beautiful voices. Then she talks about Scylla, who is huge and monstrous. She has twelve legs and six heads. She will have to feed on six of Odysseus's men so they can make it through. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag’s boss thinks that it would be “insane” that someone would “fool the Government” (Bradbury 31). Montag lives in a society where the government controls almost everything, and this government hates books. Montag works as a fireman, and firemen burn books, but Montag wants to read books. So Montag takes home the books and hides them from his