Hamlet Prince of Denmark, a Shakespearean tragedy, tells the story of a young man, by the name of Hamlet, who gained the knowledge of a terrible incident that his kingdom had suffered. ... In Oedipus of Colonus, Sophocles illustrates these qualities that Antigone possesses. ... Without a female role model to show her how a woman is supposed to act, there is no one to raise her as a woman. ... Therefore, most of the narrator's comments are related to how the characters move on stage, and how the stage itself looks like; "They start to walk about the stage. ... This quote, when read again a...

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Dilly, Dally, Fatal Finale William Shakespeare's dramatic tragedy Hamlet is truly a work of art. ... He wants the murder of the King to be perfect. ... As Edward Wagenknecht puts it, "this is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind." ... He took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven. ... Some critics attribute Hamlets inability to act to an Oedipus complex. ...

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Hamlet is a revenge tragedy of Elizabethan drama, written in about 1602 by William Shakespeare. ... In Act I Scene 5, the Ghost explains to Hamlet, how Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, murdered his father and that he wants Hamlet to avenge his death (I.v.38-90). ... Because of this tendency, psychologists have concluded that Hamlet must have suffered from an Oedipus complex (pinkmonkey.com). According to the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, all males possess this tendency, which is marked by a desire to kill their fathers and marry their mothers; as occurs in the earlier Greek play of Oedip...

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