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Essay Archive - Hamlet and Oedipus Rex: The Birth of Kings
Hamlet and Oedipus Rex: The Birth of Kings
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 desirable
results for either. In these two plays, two kings must leave their
innocence behind as the truth leads them first, to enlightenment and then
to their downfall. This is a battle between the light and the darkness,
the light being the truth and the darkness being the lie. Throughout the
tw....
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