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Similarities Between The Odyssey And The Princess Bride

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Odysseus, an epic hero in the epic poem The Odyssey, is similar and different to the movie The Princess Bride. The Odyssey, an epic novel, describes Odysseus’ decade long travel to get home to Ithaca. The Princess Bride is a movie about Wesley’s fight for his true love Buttercup. In the epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer and the movie The Princess Bride directed by Rob Beiner, the heroes are similar yet different. Both heroes, Odysseus and Wesley are humans with exceptional skills in fighting and strategy. They are also both very determined to find and save their true loves. However, While Odysseus receives help from mythical beings such as Gods, Wesley does not. To begin with, both texts have human epic heroes that don’t have supernatural powers, …show more content…

While both epic heroes are humans, Westly has to fight supernatural creatures such as oversized rodents, where Odysseus Receives help from mythical creatures such as Athena, who throws the suitor’s javelins wide. When Westly and Buttercupare in the fire swamp, they discuss the dangers of the swamp. Then, a rodent of unusual size attacks “Westly’s shoulder with his razor teeth and blood begins immediately to flow” (Reiner 61). This quote reveals how Westly has to fend off supernatural creatures to protect his true love Buttercup. This is contrasted in the epic poem The Odyssey, when Athena, a supernatural being, helps Odysseus by throwing his enemy’s spears wide. Also, westly does from torture, whereas Odysseus never dies in the poem, but it held captive onCalypso’s island and doesn’t die. Westly dies from the machine at his low point. When Fezzik and Inigo go to look for Westly, “Fezzik leans over him, listening for a heart beat. Then he looks at Inigo, shakes his head” (Reiner 88). This evidence demonstrates how the epic heroes in the epic poem The Odyssey and the movie The Princess Bride are different at their low points. This information illustrates specific examples of when Westly reaches his low point, and contrasts that to when Odysseus reached his low point on Calypso’s

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