Greek Literature and Hollywood

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This paper on Greek Literature and the Hollywood Cinema compares the the Greek novel "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles with the film "Hamlet" starring Mel Gibson and the saga of the "Iliad" with the film "Unforgiven" with Clint Eastwood. It reviews the films and their characters and shows how both films follow a particular theme of a book and accomplish the same goal but in a different situation. Even though the scenario and situations in the novels differ from that in the movie, both protagonists however show similar characteristics and undergo similar events, which force them to act in a resembling fashion.

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"He discovers the committing of the two crime after he hears the Teiresias prophecy, "You are the cursed polluter of this land. The killer you are seeking is yourself. You are living in sinful union with the one you love, living in ignorance of your own undoing" (Oedipus Rex, Sophocles). His wife Jocasta tries to calm him down by telling him that prophecies do not always come true. She tells him about the prophecy once told by oracle to King Laius about his murder, which would be committed by his son. She narrates to him the falseness about the prophecy as it never came true since five robbers killed Laius not his son. From here, Oedipus recalls his past events in which he had murdered a man. With the help of a messenger Oedipus comes to know that he is not the son of Polybus and later the shepherd solves the mystery for him hence, revealing Oedipus to be the son and husband of his mother."

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