The classic tragedy, Oedipus tells the story of the King of Thebes, Oedipus who foolishly tries to challenge fate and evade prophecy, which proclaimed that he would murder his father and marry his mother. ... Oedipus: A second time that slander! ... Oedipus: Alas! ... Hamlet is a story about a prince (Hamlet JR.) who is told by a Ghost (Hamlet Sr.) that his uncle (Claudius) had killed his father and married his mother. ... Henriek Ibsen's play Ghosts depicts the story of a mother whom is preventing her son to arise his father's existence in him. ...

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