Oedipus and Hamlet, are both exposed to incestuous marriage, and experience madness. In the two plays, Oedipus and Hamlet are unconsciously exposed to incest. After Oedipus unknowingly kills the former king, he enters the City of Thebes after solving the Sphinx's riddle and freeing the citizens of her morbid tax, the people choose him to be their new king. ... Both Oedipus and Hamlet experience a kind of madness. ... But tragically, Hamlet really does go mad just like Oedipus. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Oedipus and Hamlet, are both exposed to incestuous marriage, and experience madness. In the two plays, Oedipus and Hamlet are unconsciously exposed to incest. After Oedipus unknowingly kills the former king, he enters the City of Thebes after solving the Sphinx's riddle and freeing the citizens of her morbid tax, the people choose him to be their new king. ... Both Oedipus and Hamlet experience a kind of madness. ... But tragically, Hamlet really does go mad just like Oedipus. ...

• Word Count: 495
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

They never tell Oedipus that he is not their own. ... He then finds a castle that is being terrorized by a sphinx and answers the riddle it asks. ... However, while searching for the truth Oedipus discovers that he is the murderer and the son of his wife. In the end, Oedipus finds his mother hanged herself, so in the midst of all this Oedipus gouges his eyes out and banished himself from the castle. ... As for Oedipus, knowing the truth may not be all its cracked up to be. ...

• Word Count: 606
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• Grade Level: High School

They never tell Oedipus that he is not their own. ... He then finds a castle that is being terrorized by a sphinx and answers the riddle it asks. ... However, while searching for the truth Oedipus discovers that he is the murderer and the son of his wife. In the end, Oedipus finds his wife/mother hanged herself, so in the midst of all this Oedipus gouges his eyes out and banished himself from the castle. ... As for Oedipus, knowing the truth may not be all it is cracked up to be. ...

• Word Count: 587
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• Grade Level: High School

In "Oedipus Rex", Oedipus was also the character that was looked to as the savior and was asked to find the murderer of King Liaus. ... In "Oedipus Rex", the antagonist is actually Oedipus himself. ... Claudius and Oedipus are highly comparable. ... Oedipus was so obsessed with power ever since he solved the sphinx's riddle, that when the town came to him to find Laius's murderer he was thrilled. ... In "Oedipus Rex" the audience knows that even though Oedipus is trying to escape his fate, it is going to come true. ...

• Word Count: 1038
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• Grade Level: High School