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. ... Claudius kills poisons the king and marries the kings wife to become king. In "Oedipus Rex", the antagonist is actually Oedipus himself. ... In "Hamlet", King Claudius starts the trend by poisoning King Hamlet so that he can become king. ... And Claudius is also obsessed with power because he poisoned King Hamlet and then married his brother's widowed wife just to be king. ...

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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. ... Similarly, Hamlet's uncle, Claudius who also kill's the former king, by pouring poison "in the Porches" of his ears while he lay asleep in the garden (1.5.63). ... Both Oedipus and Hamlet experience a kind of madness. Oedipus, after realizing he killed the former king and married his mother, went crazy: Wildly he ran to each of us, asking for his spear and for his wife: no ...

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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. Oedipus, after realizing he killed the former king and married his mother, went crazy: Wildly he ran to each of us, asking for his spear and for his wife: no wife where he might find the double mother-field, his and his children's/ He saw, was stricken,...

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In Oedipus the king, a child is born to a royal couple, this king and queen want to know how their child will be in the future. ... They never tell Oedipus that he is not their own. ... In the end, the city is threatened by a plague that the oracle said will cease when the city gets rid of the one who murdered the king, Oedipus announces that the murderer will be punished. ... 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. ... He may have become king but because truth was so important to ...

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In Oedipus the king, a child is born to a royal couple, this king and queen want to know how their child will be in the future. ... They never tell Oedipus that he is not their own. ... In the end, the city is threatened by a plague that the oracle said will cease when the city gets rid of the one who murdered the king, Oedipus announces that the murderer will be punished. ... 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. ... He may have become king but because truth was so important to ...

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The ghost of Hamlet's father, the old King, introduces the first ideas of vengeance into Hamlet's mind. The ghost tells Hamlet that he was wrongfully killed at the hands of his traitorous brother, the present King Claudius. ... Hamlet stops himself from approaching Claudius when he remembers that Claudius killed old hamlet without giving the king an opportunity to confess his sins. ... First, it is claimed that Hamlet suffered from an Oedipus complex in a slight sense. ... If Hamlet did indeed have the Oedipus complex then it helps explain many of his actions. ...

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KING Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? ... KING At supper? ... KING Alas, alas. ... KING What dost thou mean by this? ... Hamlet, like modern characters in literature, is conscious of himself and his contradictions; he is not a pawn in a tragic irony, as Bloom points out: Unlike Oedipus or Lear, Hamlet never seems victimized by dramatic irony. ...

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In Hamlet, Claudius has disrupted the Greater Chain of Being and subsequently, King Hamlet's Ghost has corrupted Hamlet's Renaissance mindset and morals in demanding he avenge his father's death. ... The murder of Old King Hamlet has caused Claudius' mindset to become corrupted in order to control Denmark for himself. ... Shakespeare uses sexual imagery to signify Hamlet as a literary example of a child, who never overcame his Oedipus complex. ... At the beginning of the play, Claudius is appearing to be a good king in order to reinstate stability to Denmark after the dea...

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(He stole the letters that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were taking to the King of England, which instructed the king to kill Hamlet. ... When Hamlet searches for the letters from Claudius to the King of England, he says, "In the dark, / Groped I to find out them, had my desire, / Fingered their packet, and in fine withdrew / To mine own room again, making so bold, / My fears forgetting manners, to unseal / Their grand commission". ... Maybe it is all part of Hamlet's Oedipus complex. ...

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Hamlet has been accused of having an Oedipus complex since Sigmund Freud first introduced the concept. ... He compares his recent murder of Polonius to her incest: "A bloody deed-almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king, and marry with his brother...

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In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone. ...

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In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone. ...

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