Wednesday, December 7, 2016
"The Simpsons," Satire, And "The Odyssey?"
Compare The Odyssey video excerpt from the Simpsons with Homer's epic poem The Odyssey Books 9,10,12,21,22,23.
What does the Simpson's version satirize? What does it make you think
about regarding the poem's characters, theme, relationships, and
episodes? Please respond with specific support (i.e.-quotations) for
your argument. Complete this blog response by 2:30p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9th.
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Compare The Odyssey video excerpt from the Simpsons with Homer's epic poem The Odyssey Books 9,10,12,21,22,23. What does the Simpson's version satirize? What does it make you think about regarding the poem's characters, theme, relationships, and episodes? Please respond with specific support (i.e.-quotations) for your argument.
It is more old fashioned and they are kinda making the story funny,The caracters were not realistic,
The difference between the two are very evident. Obviously, The Simpsons version is more funny and doesn't describe the book as well. It makes fun of a lot of the book, telling it and altering it in a way that is untrue. The book is more descriptive and tells the story a lot better. In the book, the men turn into pigs but Odysseus does not eat them. Also, Odysseus does not just walk in and say "Honey, I'm Home." He also does not just stab everyone...it takes a lot more than that. And Odysseus' son was shown interest, but in the book, nobody was attracted to him.
The video satirizes Poseidon's wrath on Odysseus and shows how he complicates his trip home. The trip to Cerce's home and the home of the sirens are visited and made fun of. It brings up the thought of selfishness and how Odysseus frequently sacrifices his men in order to get home. His wife is longing for his return, and it shows how patient she truly is. Their relationship is questioned though because of this because it seems like she should of moved on. Cerce tricks him into eating his men in a way and he seems less fazed than he should be because of this.
It shows you some of the bigger points of the stories. When the circus turned the men into the pigs and then Odysseus eats them. It shows the greediness of the men. It also brings the sirens into it and then they made it different in the part when they sailed to the sirens island and how they got out of that situation. They also made fun of the gods and how they acted when they dealt with Odysseus. It makes you look at the relationships and how they act in a different way because the video put them into simpler terms.
The Simpson's video pokes fun at the Odyssey by satirizing the events in the books. In the book, the sirens try to lure the men to the island but in the video they decide the sirens are too ugly and turn away. Also the siren song is a catchy pop song instead of what the real song is typically perceived as. Another difference is that Homer doesn't string a bow like in the book. Also this shows the Gods in a way that makes them seem fun and hanging out instead of being serious people. Finally, another way the video makes fun of the book is when they got turned into pigs, "Odysseus" ate his friends raw and like four pigs which is impossible.
The Simpsons animation satires the Gods. It makes the Gods seem more joking around than serious. Also they satirize the sirens, and joke around more about how ugly they are. Also the joke about "taking out the trash", he puts a spear through all the suitors. They take a lot of words from back then, and make it literal, like the Styx River in the Odyssey, and in the animation, there was music playing from the band Styx.
In the Simpsons episode of The Odyssey Books, the Simpsons make fun of Odysseus and his story. For example, Circê’s caldron in the Simpsons is obviously something bad, just as the men in The Odyssey should have know that the wine was bad. But, the men drink it anyways. That leads to the men being pigs and Odysseus eats the pigs. He then asked Circê for directions to Ithaca and followed them to his home. The Simpson’s Odysseus gets home and throws a spear through a bunch of people and Penelopeia falls in love with Odysseus again.
The Simpson’s spinoff of The Odyssey satirizes many things from the original text. They changed many things regarding Circe, the Sirens, Hades, and the Cyclops. In the video, they changed many aspects of the older story, to modern day things that we are used to. However, they kept some things the same. They kept the battle of the suitors and how Poseidon threw them off of their course. It also seemed to poke fun at the original poems, making them seem almost violent and inappropriate. In conclusion, the Simpson’s versions of Homer’s books was much different compared to the source.
Within Homer’s epic poem, the Simpson’s version satirizes homer in very humorous ways. It also views the journey of Odysseus with much more carelessness and less heroic actions. Along with all of the other gods and Odysseus’ journey as well. The reasons for actions in Homer’s version of Odysseus are much different than the actual reasons within the real story. Overall it’s very satirical and very evident. The plot, the characters, the relationships and scenes are all made fun of, and exaggerated in a way that pushes the boundaries. There were enough details throughout Homer’s poem though, that you could understand the points that were trying to be made and the story that they were satirizing.
The cartoon version satirizes when Odysseus come home and Penelope asks him to share his journey he leaves to go to his friend's house. In the cartoon, he cuts out more of the gory sense such as the cyclopes and many other sense
The Simpsons version of The Odyssey summarized the stories main points and changed the story to make it more fun and entertaining. In the Odyssey, Odysseus lost his men to Lotus eaters, and the cyclops but those didn't make an appearance in the Simpsons version. Also they made fun of the Circe's island seen where Homer ate his own men (disguised as pigs) where in the text he turned them back into humans. Homer also didn't have to choose between two paths, and he didn't have to string a bow to defeat the suiters. Overall I like the Simpsons video because it made the story more understandable and light.
The simpsons make fun of the Odyssey by showing the sacrifice not working and that Zeus was grown up and that Apolo didn't grow up because he was drunk and wanted to have fun. They also made fun of the sirens when they were forced to be 'pushed' there, they were ugly and they didn't have wax in there ears and they could resist the sirens. When they went the island of Circe and turned his men into pigs because they drank her 'wine' but it was really poison in the Simpsons. Then in the Simpsons he ate his crew instead of leaving them there, like it was in the book. Also when he came home he killed all the men that was trying to get with his wife, then ignores her.
Comparing “The Odyssey” video from the Simpsons to the actual text, there were numerous ways it was made fun of. One example was when Odysseus and his men didn’t sacrifice the sheep, the God’s got angry and made the men go way off track. The video really exaggerated how far they traveled and it pretty much did it through the whole clip. Another example was when they reach Circe’s island, Odysseus’s men was turned into pigs. Then, from the video, Odysseus ate his men/pigs which doesn’t really make sense to why he did that. But the Simpsons really satirized the book because the actual text showed that Odysseus saved his men rather than ate them. Overall, there were many other examples of how the book was made fun of, but those were just a few.
In the Odyssey excerpt of the Simpsons satirizes the woman on the siren islands, the way through hell, and Circe turning them into pigs. When Homer Simpson and his crew pull up on their ship to the siren islands they see the women who were singing and in the book they were beautiful but in this short film they were extremely ugly according to the men who quickly turned their ship away and sailed very fast. The second thing that this excerpt satirizes is when Homer is on his way home alone he has to go through Hatti, also known as hell, in the book this place was very spooky, creepy and dead while in this movie the skeletons were very much alive. They were singing and dancing when they should have been dead and creepy. The third thing that I noticed that the Simpsons satirizes was when Circe turned the men into pigs. The men were never eaten by Odysseus in the book but in the film Homer didn’t know that those pigs were his friends so he ate them all. These three things are things that the Simpsons excerpt satirized from the book The Odyssey.
The Simpson's version satires that Odysseus was a lazy leader and very ignorant. This makes fun of his truly rough journey and changing it into something rather funny and simple. The Simpson's version was almost the opposite at one point when Odysseus(Homer) and his men didn't sacrifice the sheep, which made the gods mad, making Poseidon change their course. The Odyssey books and The Simpson's version are relatively comparable with Odysseus getting close to his home and then having a huge obstacle block his way; along with, Odysseus being the only one to return home. There are also many differences like Odysseus didn't eat his men, nor did he not sacrifice a sheep, but in fact ate sacred cattle, which had men the gods mad.
In the Simpsons makes fun of Homer because even though in the Odyssey, Odysseus is very smart and can manipulate a lot of people, Homer isn’t as smart nor wise as Odysseus is. It also shows that Odysseus was a very poor leader that made plans last minute. It also makes a very rough journey seem very easy and makes the characters act very overdramatic for an easy journey. Also, the God got angry and set the men off track which was very unrealistic and didn’t actually happen in the book. They also made the siren’s voice attract the men but when they got closer they look very “unattractive” which made them go away. This made fun of the women and it didn’t happen in the book.
The Simpson’s version makes fun of the whole adventure of Odysseus journey. Overall I think the version made his journey seem less important or serious then it was. The journey took 10 years and was full of many hardships along the way. The Siren Song ladies in the story were singing and were portrayed as beautiful pulling the men in but in the video clip the women pulled them in by their singing but were hideous and Odysseus immediately after looking at them turned away. Also it made fun of the God’s in the sky watching over Odysseus and how they took care of him at sea. It shows the thought that he was selfish when his men was turned to pigs and he ate them. The men were never eaten by the Odysseus in the book. Even though the Simpson’s version was more humorous and light, it didn’t show the true journey Odysseus and his men went through.
The Simpsons cartoon puts a funny twist on the characters in The Odyssey. In the story, the characters in the book make bad choices not knowing they are bad, but in the Simpsons, the characters make those same choices, but already know the outcome is bad to make the show funny. Another thing that I noticed was in both, the story and the episode, Penelope was worried about her husband and had to find a way to get a new husband. For example in the text, she says, “Hear me, you proud men that seek my hand, you who have laid siege to his house, eating and drinking day after day all this long time while my husband has been absent: and not one word could you say for yourselves, but that you wished to make me your wife.” In the Simpsons, though, Marge and Bart make the contest to find a husband like a dating contest. When Odysseus runs into the room, he disguises himself as a peasant. In the Simpsons, Homer just runs into the room and shows off how much better he is than everyone else, instead of being in disguise and showing it off later.
This episode definitely showed me that Odysseus and his crew are more serious in the book about completing their journey than Homer and his friends were. It also showed that Odysseus cares more about his men in the book than in the episode because Homer blindly ate his friends after they were turned into pigs.
The cartoon puts the Odyssey in a satiric light through many different parts of the play that they make fun of. In the short film, the film write represents the gods as sarcastic beings who quite hilariously bring destruction upon Odysseus' travels. The first difference begins with how Odysseus confronts the Sirens. Instead of having the crew tie him up as he did in the story, Homer/Odysseus sails through the Siren lair without complications and is able to get out by just looking at the hideous creatures. Another difference I noticed was that when Homer/Odysseus returned home he did not do so gallantly, he came home as a pride less man would; as if no time had passed. Also in the book Odysseus did not enter his home immediately and shoot an arrow at all his humble wife's suitors, he negotiated with the townsmen disguised as someone else. In the short film, Odysseus eats the pigs that once were his men on circe's island, yet in the book nothing of the sort happens. The exaggeration of eating the pigs helped visualize the greed and selfish values that Odysseus possessed throughout his heroic career.
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