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
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Preparation
Odysseus
Experience fighting in the
Trojan War and
outwitting the Trojans
Jack Sparrow
Getting a crew and a
ship for departure
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Allies
Odysseus
Gets a crew and
endears himself to
Athena
Jack Sparrow
Gets a crew and
befriends Will Turner
Guardians of the Threshold
Odysseus
Jack Sparrow
Beginning the voyage
home
Jack begins the journey
to Isla de Muerta
Crossing the Threshold
Odysseus
Jack Sparrow
The ship is blown offcourse by the winds
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
Escapes the island on
which he was
marooned, tricks both
Norrington and
Barbossa
Saving Experience
Odysseus
Jack Sparrow
Enters the Underworld
and learns how to reach
home
Kills Barbossa
Transforming Changes
Odysseus
Jack Sparrow
Reaches Calypso’s island
and cannot return home
Shows that he genuinely
cares for Will Turner
when Jack saves him
The Return
Odysseus
Jack Sparrow
Slaughters Penelope’s
suitors
Escapes his hanging
Sharing the Gift
Odysseus
Jack Sparrow
Settles the conflict with
the suitors, is reunited
with Penelope, rules well
over Ithaca
Shows the governor and
Commodore
Norrington that a pirate
can be a good man