Honors English 9 Jenkins Focus: The Odyssey Today’s Target: I can distinguish between an epic & other literary genres. I can do this by recognizing & analyzing the epic hero, the epic journey, epithets, & epic similes. Agenda: Hero Journal Entry Epic PowerPoint Notes The Odyssey Homework: Essay Exams Due Friday!!
Hero Journal Entry In your opinion, what makes someone a hero? List 5 heroes in your journal-both fictional and real. Discuss Now, create a definition for a hero.
Watch the following trailer Is this man a hero? Why? Why not? What qualities does he possess that seem essential to the definition of a hero? Also, is he not one? Why? Be specific.
Today’s focus- the epic & the epic hero Can’t have one without the other…….
The Epic An epic is a long poem that tells a story. 2. Has to have a hero!!
1. The epic pattern ….. long, narrative poem presents adventures adventures are united through central character of heroic proportions
The classical or literary epic Is work of single author Hero is figure of heroic stature Setting is vast in scope Supernatural forces at work Poet begins in media res (in the middle of action) Includes epic similes
2. An Epic Hero must be…. a. identified with native, Greek tradition. -embodies values of society. b. nobly born (often with divine parent). c. surrounded by a sense of doom or magnificent destiny. d. intensely proud and masculine e. glories in hand to-hand combat. f. motivated by a desire to be more than other men. g. Greatest hero must die.
How Were Epics Told ? Out loud By people who could not read or write Everyone would gather to hear the stories told Told over a couple of days They were passed on orally
Author is…Homer (not the guy from the Simpsons) A blind minstrel (story teller) Rhapsodes: singers of tales, historian, entertainer, and myth maker.
Homer’s Epics: Homer’s war stories: The Iliad and The Odyssey Stories set in Greece His 1st epic: The Iliad-tells the story of a war fought outside of Troy. His 2nd epic: The Odyssey (our story) tells of journey coming home from war.
The Iliad The Odyssey Is the model for the epic of war. Is the model for the epic of the long journey.
Theme of the Journey in Books and Movies Today: Incredible Journey Moby Dick The Hobbit Wizard of Oz Star Wars Lion King Forrest Gump
Odysseus Protagonist and HERO of The Odyssey He fought in the Trojan War Now this story, The Odyssey, is about him coming home. He has a wife, Penelope. He loves her and wants to return to her and his son, Telemachus (baby when war started). There are several traps and snares to impede his journey home
The traps and snares that impede his journey home: Angry Gods (Poseidon) Mythical Monsters – Cyclops, Scylla, Charybdis Women (goddesses, temptresses, the Harpies) and his own personal demons (his desire for war and the kill/hunt-hard to give up and hard to return from= post war disillusionment or PTSD
Where is Odysseus? When The Odyssey starts, he is stranded on an island with a beautiful woman!!
Homeric / Heroic Similes You will see these in The Odyssey Similes that compare heroic events to everyday things.
As you read….what you are looking for today: Instructions: Read 1206- 1209 by yourself (10 mins). Discuss above questions with partner, as you jot notes in your journal. (10). Be ready to discuss Is it a poem? How do you know? Does it tell a story? What is the story? Does it have a hero? Who is it? How does the author set it up for us that this IS the HERO? Does it include epic similes where? Give line numbers for these.
Final Clip /Exit Pass View Clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBc_PdW1xkg 1. How does Clint Eastwood clearly use the epic form/pattern to tell this tale? 2. What did you learn today about the epic form that you see used here in this ad for movie? 3. What about the epic hero? What did Eastwood and this actor do to ensure we would see Sniper as epic hero?