Into the Woods, Watership Down, and the Odyssey are all alike in some way, mostly according to the monomyth. Some of the similarities are obvious, and some are not so obvious.
They’re all answering a call of some sort: Odysseus is going to fight in the war, Friver and Hazel are going to find a new home, Little Red Riding Hood is going to see her grandmother, the baker is trying to lift a curse, and Jack is trying to sell a cow to get some food. And if they’re answering a call, they’re all going to face a journey. Odysseus’ is the whole story pretty much, so is Friver and Hazels. Little Red Riding Hood has to deal with the wolf and trying not to stray from her path, the baker has to find the cow as white as milk, the cloak as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, and the slipper as pure as gold. Jack is trying to get food for his mother and himself, and trying to buy back his only friend — the cow.
“For every hero there stands a villan. For if there is good, there also must be evil.” (Star Wars – The Legacy Revealed Part 6 – Opening sentence) In Into the Woods, Watership Down, and the Odyssey, there is a villan for every hero. In Into the Woods Little Red Riding hood has the wolf, the baker has the witch, and Jack has the Giants. In Watership Down there are humans, and cult rabbits for Friver and Hazel and the rest of the new warren. In the Odyssey, Posiden is the villan for Odysseus.
If you look for similiarites, you’re going to find some in all fairytales — because of the monomyth. Some may be obvious, and some you may have to think and think and rack your brain about, but they’re there.
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