In both stories the main conflict deals with a dispute of the worst kind, a dispute within the family. In each story the problem is different, but in each of the stories the main character tends to responds in the same general fashion. In the story Hamlet his dilemma is that his uncle, who is now the king, has killed his father and married his now deceased brothers' wife. Hamlet vows that he will avenge the death of his father when he says "O villain, villain, smiling, damn villain...adieu, adieu remember me I h

In both stories the main characters learn of their fate to come only with the help of unnatural means. Hamlet learns his information from a ghost that tells him of what really happened and who the killer was. This is what starts his quest for revenge against his fathers' killer. Oedipus learns about his fate to come only with the help of an oracle that reveals his horrible fate to come. Nothing there

In Oedipus the King, his problem that he learns of from the oracle declares that in the future he is to marry his mother and kill his father. Like Hamlet, Oedipus also makes a vow that over comes pretty much all of his life. This vow to never let this oracle come true drives him away and never quite leaves his mine.

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 th

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