Oedipus Rex & Hamlet

Oedipus and Hamlet are two different people in two different stories. Each story is different in both plot and theme. One theme is about fate and how a person cannot change fate. The other is about revenge and how it can change a man forever. Although they are different people with different lives they have a lot in common. Both Oedipus and Hamlet lived their lives in similar ways. They make some comparable decisions in …

…Home you’ll come, in tears, cut off from the site of it all…” (Oedipus Line 1633) In the end both characters may be different people but they have so much in common. These are only a few of the things that they have in common. The one greatest thing that they have in common is the fact that the both paid a high price just because they had insight in to the future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**