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Hamlet And Oedipus Rex: The Birth Of Kings
Beginning of Paper
Two plays, "Hamlet", written by William Shakespeare and "Oedipus
Rex", written by Sophocles share a common bond of illusion and innocence.
The protagonists in both plays appear at the beginning only to have changed
so that reality has broken through the illusion with less than desir .... Middle of Paper .... leads to the point at which both have their "eyes" opened
to the reality surrounding their "illusionary" worlds. Hamlet is
approached by the ghost of his dead father who reveals that his own brother,
Hamlet's uncle, murdered him. Oedipus Rex discovers the truth when the
blind prophet, Teiresias accuses him of being the one who murdered King
Laios therefore fulfilling his destiny in which he had sought to avoid. In
the end, the actions taken by both lead to their downfalls in different
ways, death for Hamlet and loss of vision for Oedip ....
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