In “Damon and Pythias” by Fan Kissen and “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas” by Disney Dreamworks, they both have their fair share of similarities and differences. These two selections share both similarities and differences. “Damon and Pythias” shares several similarities with “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.” In “Damon and Pythias”, it is about when Pythias says this to the king that will cause him to be, executed, which means to be slain by someone, in 2 weeks, “I am not afraid to tell you that the people are suffering under your rule. They want to have a voice in making the laws for themselves. You do not allow them to speak up for themselves.” (pg. 727) In “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas”, the pirate, Sinbad was a well known thief. …show more content…
In “Damon and Pythias”, The two loyal friends, Damon and Pythias, Will do whatever it takes to be able to be free of guilt when death is to come. Damon was taking his friend’s place in the jail and he said, “I have faith in my friend. I know he will return.” (pg. 729) But in “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas”, Sinbad wanted to go to a tropical, which is a place of, typical of, or peculiar to the tropics. , paradise and leave his friend to die. In “Damon and Pythias”, Pythias goes to see his mother before he dies, and he was insisting that his friend Damon shouldn’t take his place in prison. “No, no Damon! You must not do such a foolish thing!” (pg. 728) When it happens, he goes and after he visits his Mother, he tries to leave his Mother’s house to get back to town, but thieves tie him to a tree, which he then feels desperate because he didn’t have much time left to get back to the town to save his friend, and he wants his friend to stay alive. In “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas”, Sinbad’s friend takes his place in prison, so that he can get the Book of Peace back, but when Sinbad leaves to go search for it, he wants to leave his friend to die while he escapes to a tropical island paradise.Therefore, Marina, Proteus's wife, tricks Sinbad to make him think about saving his friend instead of leaving him to
The thrilling book The Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls and the movie by Walt Disney are alike in some ways but drastically different in other ways. There were different characters, endings and beginnings, and even different plot organization.
There are few similarities between the book and the movie. Usually most movies are similar to
Throughout the film there are parts of historical piracy that are shown. In the start of the film, pirate Hector Barbossa is shown as a new privateer for the English. It is revealed that Captain Barbossa is not sailing the seas for the King, but instead
Even though both films are highly reviewed, they both follow the same plot, but then have some major and minor differences. Herbert Ross and Craig Brewer directed an outstanding dancing film, that most American’s like looking at the reviews of the
After Socrates had finished arguing with Gorgias in The Gorgias, he moves in to the next in line: Polus. They discuss the concepts of committing injustice over suffering injustice and the importance of punishment of the felons. Socrates say to Polus, “but in my opinion, Polus, the unjust or doer of unjust actions is miserable in any case- more miserable, however, if he is not punished and does not meet with retribution, and less miserable if he be punished and meets with retribution at the hands of gods and men” (Plato 53-54). Here Socrates declares that to do is worse than to suffer evil and if a man has done evil it is in his best interest to be punished than to be left unpunished. This is because according to his viewpoint doing injustice
Half of the room had their faces painted orange and brown. Half of the room had their faces painted black and yellow. I sat and looked at the other side of the room with total disgust. How could they call themselves Clevelanders as they sat and cheered on the enemy?
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They’re a few similarities and differences between the myth, and the movie Jason and the Argonauts. Some similarities would include Jason wanting to find the golden fleece, him navigating through the rocks, his ship names stays “Argo” in both the myth and the movie. Hera only helps him five times in both the movie and myth. Some differences would be, Jason and his men in the story fought and killed Harpies, but in the movie they just put them into the prison. The clashing rocks scene, In the movie they called magic rocks “Clashing Rocks”, but in the story they called them “Clashing Cliffs” In the story the teeth turned to warriors, but in the movie the teeth turned into the skeletons. And the relationship of Medea and Jason. Medea has the most differences.
Another similarity in the book and movie is that the characters have to go against their morals in order to decide what to do in certain situations. An example of this in the book is when Skip realises he would have to trespass and steal in order for him to keep himself and his friends alive. Or in...
Diodorus and Plutarch portray Alexander with extreme amounts of arrogance because of his extravagant ideas and goals, but in Arrian’s pieces, Alexander is shown as a barbarian because of his inheritance of Persian culture.
The adventures of the three main characters in the movie, Ulysses, Pete and Delmar include many encounters with characters similar to Homer’s Odyssey, such as the trio of Sirens, a Bible-salesman Cyclops, as well as other archetypes from southern folklore and pop culture such as the young blues musician, the Klan, and the infamous bank robber “Baby Face” Nelson. However, the biggest parallel between both pieces might have to be the strik...
Even though these two books may seem very different, they also share many similarities. Though they are not related through their plots, they definitely share some very important themes and resemblance of characters. Through these similarities, two different stories in completely different time frames and locations can be brought together in many instances.
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The drama, “Romeo and Juliet”, shares many similarities to the ancient text, “Pyramus and Thisbe”. Even though these two tales’ origins are far apart in geographical location and time period, they are surprisingly related. This proves the truth of universal themes. Universal themes are ideas that span nations because of their relevance to mankind. True love and death is the universal theme of the two tales. “Romeo and Juliet” can compare to “Pyramus and Thisbe” for three reasons; the lovers come from disagreeing families, the tales are both tragedy, and they are based on misconception and ill-timing.
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