The Hero Cycle: Parallels between Jack Sparrow and Odysseus Media Through Time The Hero Cycle: Parallels between Jack Sparrow and Odysseus
Call to Action Odysseus Is forced to fight in the Trojan War Jack Sparrow Will Turner asks him for help to save Elizabeth Swann, and he needs a new ship http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hn6FHh7NOA&feature=related
Getting a crew and a ship for departure Preparation Odysseus Experience fighting in the Trojan War and outwitting the Trojans Jack Sparrow Getting a crew and a ship for departure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGWYNgjvddc
Odysseus Gets a crew and endears himself to Athena Allies Odysseus Gets a crew and endears himself to Athena Jack Sparrow Gets a crew and befriends Will Turner
Guardians of the Threshold Odysseus Beginning the voyage home Jack Sparrow Jack begins the journey to Isla de Muerta
Crossing the Threshold Odysseus The ship is blown off- course by the winds Jack Sparrow Jack and his crew reach the island
Road of Trials Odysseus Jack Sparrow Defeats the Cyclops, escapes the Lotus-eaters, Laistrygonians, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Sirens, and tricks Circe Jack Sparrow Escapes the island on which he was marooned, tricks both Norrington and Barbossa
Saving Experience Odysseus Enters the Underworld and learns how to reach home Jack Sparrow Kills Barbossa
Transforming Changes Odysseus Reaches Calypso’s island and cannot return home Jack Sparrow Shows that he genuinely cares for Will Turner when Jack saves him
The Return Odysseus Slaughters Penelope’s suitors Jack Sparrow Escapes his hanging
Sharing the Gift Odysseus Settles the conflict with the suitors, is reunited with Penelope, rules well over Ithaca Jack Sparrow Shows the governor and Commodore Norrington that a pirate can be a good man