Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The odyssey and the harry potter books are based on the classic heros journey. Homers odyssey, from the edited h2g2, the unconventional guide to life. Rowling wrote and personalized literally hundreds of characters that all have incredible merit. The blood smeared heros refusal to gloat over the slain in book 22 l. Natalie mcdonald is an unknown character from the books. But still, 12,000 lines is a lot of lines, and were busy people. To be fair, at least 8,000 of those are spent describing odysseuss sweet, sweet abs and extremely chiseled thighs. The harry potter series has captivated millions of fans worldwide. Ever wanted a quick look into the lives of the famous and infamous harry potter book adult characters. Last time on blogging the odyssey, penelope decided to let the. Without further ado, here is a countdown of the top ten female characters from harry potter. Discover unique things to do, places to eat, and sights to see in the best destinations around the world with bring me.
It is definitely a fair point homeric characters themselves seem vague about what. Harry potter gives off that lovely old fashioned english feeling. Play sporcle s virtual live trivia to have fun, connect with people, and get your trivia on. Someone had under etymology odysseus is probably derived from the odyssey, they got that backwards the preceding unsigned comment was added by 216. If you havent done so already, you may want to create an account. Most people cant identify 22 of these harry potter. Harry potter this category is for questions about harry potter. This is a list of characters in the harry potter series. They are all characters who have appeared in a harry potter related book by j. K rowling wrote the first book of the harry potter series, which has since grown into a massive empire. The removal of the disguise is the climax of the story.
Book 22 the battle exposition after taking off his disguise, odysseus kills antinous and the other suitors with the help of telemachus, his servants, and athena. Many other characters also make an entrance, including but most definitely not limited to the most noble and ancient house of black. Harry potter started out as a series of books by jk rowling, but went on to be a movie franchise, theme park, video games, and an. They are all fictional characters that have appeared in one or more harry potterrelated book. How can you relate odysseus the odyssey to harry potter. Rowling brought us the world of harry potter and endowed it with an. Ign said that harry potter was their favourite harry potter character, calling him a sympathetic figure and saying in response to his fights against voldemort that everybody loves an underdog story of. We dont have time to be reading the longwinded story of. Harry potter ronald weasley hermione granger albus dumbledore voldemort rubeus hagrid minerva mcgonagall severus snape professor quirrell. The iliad and the odyssey are two of the oldest works of western literatureyet these ancient myths still offer powerful lessons for our times.
Agamemnon envies achilles and ajax their deaths in. Heroism in the harry potter series 1st edition katrin. Harry potter coming from the ever so famous harry potter series by j. If a virtual private party is more your thing, go here for details. See how much you and your class remembers from to kill a mockingbird, dive into the magical world of harry potter or have fun with the unforgettable characters created by roald dahl. Every harry potter book gives you different pieces of advice as you grow up with the characters. Odysseus the central figure in the epic, he employs guile as well as courage to return to ithaca, defeat the suitors, and resume his proper place as king penelope wife of odysseus and mother of their son, telemachus, she is shrewd and faithful in fending off the suitors telemachus son of odysseus and penelope, the prince struggles to gain his own maturity. In this lesson, we will first recap book 20 of the odyssey. A man by the name of joseph campbell studied these phenomena and documented his findings in his book, the hero with a thousand faces. As the ghosts arrive, achilles, agamemnon, and ajax discuss their own deaths. And when you get really engrosed into that plot and the thoughts of the characters you really start to put clues together. If the iliad is the worlds greatest war epic, then the odyssey is literatures grandest evocation of everymans journey though life.
The character was described in harry potter and the sorcerers stone as having a bossy sort of voice, lots of bushy brown hair and rather large front teeth, which, for the most part, fits with. Film when a series as well known and well loved as the harry potter books get made into films, it is fairly predictable that they are never going to manage to be wholly accurate conversions. They describe the struggle between good and evil and the ultimate triumph of the good through the courage and ingenuity of the human spirit, and the power of human love. The first book came out in 1997, the first movie came out in 2001, and yet, two decades later, harry potters fans are as dedicated as always.
Raise your hand if youd rather get a novel than candy this halloween. The odyssey is the story of one mans journey home, and something youll almost certainly have to read for school. The character vault is a fascinating book that details the characters from the films. They are modern fairy tales with predominant spiritual themes. Book 22 with weapons from the storeroom, telemachus fights by his fathers side.
Most harry potter lists have the same ten characters or so. Summary and analysis book 22 slaughter in the hall summary tearing off his beggar rags, odysseus boldly catapults himself onto the halls threshold, utters a brief prayer to apollo, and fires an arrow straight through a new target. Similarities between the odyssey and harry potter for my. Rowling, and odysseus coming from the odyssey by homer. Different books help you escape to different realities. But he is tempted by the hallows and discovering all three of them. Like, the magic, old english, boarding school thing is really nice and magical, for want of a better word. Together we are building an encyclopedia and a wiki community based around harry potter. Beloved childrens books kahoots from harry potter to to kill a mockingbird celebrate our most beloved childrens books with some awesome kahoots. The king kicks the table and scatters the food on the floor, and the food mingles with antinouss blood.
Love harry potter and had to read the odyssey for a book to know when taking ap exam liked it too though. We will then go on to a summary of book 22, where odysseus and telemachus slaughter the suitors. Books 1424in the odyssey homer has created a poem to stir the depths of an. We will begin this lesson with a brief recap of book 21 of the odyssey.
Everyone fails to string odysseuss bow, except odysseus, who then wins the contest with his. Even though these characters have magic, each one teaches us how to become respectable, kind, and decent human beings. Harry potter and the philosophers stone all culminates in this meeting voldemort for the very first time. The series of harry potter is arguably one of the most influential stories of our time. Everyone fails to string odysseuss bow, except odysseus, who then wins the contest with his first shot.
I have just read all the harry potter books and i love jilly cooper, and many more. Odysseuss reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his tenyear voyage home to ithaca after the trojan war is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the odyssey, odysseus is lured away from his home in the quest for glory. A comparison and contrast overall, i believe that the odyssey is a greater novel then harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban because although harry potter is a better hero than odysseus, the odyssey has greater epic and literary quality. Everyone is included harry, ron, hermoine, snape, dumbledore, voldemort, etc. Odysseus harry potter wiki fandom powered by wikia. Though so much time and change separates the birth of. For example, similarities can be found between odysseus, from the odyssey by homer, and j. This is a list of characters in the harry potter books. Its a very popular template for stories of that kind. Harry potter and odysseus, perhaps the most famous heroes of their times.
Similarities between the odyssey and harry potter for my wizards. Harry potter characters read the harry potter books. As i was reading the odyssey, i was constantly reminded of harry potter. The main characters get 45 pages each, while minor characters usually get a single 2page spread. You can edit and create articles on harry potter wiki right now. B ludo bagman head of the department of magical games and sports within the ministry of magic. The odyssey as told in a series of texts the sparknotes blog.
If you removed all of the descriptions from the many characters in the book, of how handsome and brilliant odysseus is, youd be left with something closer to a. If you removed all of the descriptions from the many characters in the book, of how handsome and brilliant odysseus is, youd be left with something. Katie bell gryffindor quidditch chaser one year above harry potter. Beloved childrens books kahoots from harry potter to.
This one here is called little aias, and the other is called big aias, or telamonian aias his dad was a dude name telamon. In fact, just like the characters in their beloved series. In harry potter, harry follows his mentor dumbledore to get rid of the horocruxes. Bathilda bagshot author of a history of magic, and the great aunt of gellert grindelwald. The 7 most underrated harry potter characters odyssey. Like many concepts in the book world, series is a somewhat fluid and contested notion. Harry potter was also ranked number thirtysix on empires 2008 list of 100 greatest movie characters of all time. Join a live hosted trivia game for your favorite pub trivia experience done virtually. The 10 truly best female harry potter characters odyssey. The fighting of book 22 is the only pitched battle in the odyssey, and while it cannot help but recall the iliad, which abounds in bloodshed, the description remains thoroughly odyssean. Harry potter and what the characters taught us odyssey. Check out this link regarding the heros journey and then you can parallel the two stories accordingly.
Odysseus shoots antinous through the throat just as the suitor is about to take a sip of wine. They both have a reputation as a hero and they are both going after someone to take revenge. Taking up the various conceptions of heroism that are conjured in the harry potter series, this collection examines the ways fictional heroism in the twentyfirst century challenges the idealized forms of a somewhat simplistic masculinity associated with genres like the epic, romance and classic adventure story. Hannah abbott hufflepuff student in harry potter s year. I think odysseus and harry potter are similar in many ways.
The same would go for any kind of character and a poet would have these. This isnt voldemorts true form, and it certainly is not the last well see. However, natalie was a real person specifically a 9yearold canadian girl who loved harry potter and had spent most of her young life battling leukemia. What if the characters of harry potter looked like they did in the books. One of the most common and greatest escapes is the harry potter series. These seven books have outsold almost every other fiction series in human history, made rowling into one of the worlds bestselling authors.
For a book series about the chosen boy, rowling included some kickass female characters who should get their own time in the limelight. Rating is available when the video has been rented. For help, questions, and contact information, you should see help. Series was designed to cover groups of books generally understood as such see wikipedia. To many, whether they simply loved the movies or know all the books by heart, the magical world of hogwarts is a second home. She started hogwarts in goblet of fire and was sorted into gryffindor house, the house of the courageous, valiant, and chivalrous. For one thing, it maintains the comic and domestic flavor that many critics find characteristic of the odyssey. A week after the battle of hogwarts, harry, ron and siblings, hermione, neville, and draco are sent back in time to the marauders era to read seven books about harry potter with all of hogwarts. In this book he highlights the idea that all heroes are built up of the same basic components. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone characters shmoop. Litcharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in the odyssey, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
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