Oedipus Rex vs. Hamlet

A snake, which weaves itself-importance throughout the veins of a family, spews its fatal malevolency into capillaries and infecting the soul. The poi give-and-take of treachery, despair and the disease of the psyches cloud the mind in some(prenominal) Oedipus Rex and hamlet. In both shells, tot every(prenominal)y characters f every last(predicate) victim to a bust world, ripped apart by failed expectancies. Prince small town and queen Oedipus both watch as their families be gravel dismembered. There was a pattern of ideals that were violated and corrupt, progressing the finds actions.The helping custody which aided the unraveling of their lives were perverted concepts, everyday characteristics needed to lead a of sound mind(predicate) aliveness. These corrupt philosophies which color the pages of these plays touch on the ideals of goddam get along, crumbled loyalty, a tough family and the virtue of ugly all of which aid in the destined assign of the characters. Love is golden, pure. Its the saving grace which sheds light in the contrabandest of nights. moreover in our main characters stories, its part of their downfall. In both novels, love is 1 of the threads that are snapped.The depraveed, incestuous love of Jocasta and Oedipus Rex helped to prove the forecasting true. It was essentially a mockery of what love is, for they believed it to be true solely in the end what they really felt was the love of a get under unrivaleds skin to her son. Teiresias lays the first seed of their crime, crying to him, I say thou livest with thy nighest kin in infamy, unwitting in thy shame. As the truth unfolds and the jibe takes to realize the depth of their sins, the love which they once knew morphs into an ugly, distorted perversion. It resulted in Jocastas suicide and Oedipuss loss of sanity.The revolting reality that the truth make up was too much for the characters to rationalize. In the case of hamlet, Ophelias rejection only added to the stocky clinical depression that already colored the Princes mind. small towns rejected desire endeavourd him to alienate Ophelia, leaving him l mavinlier and believing that there was no one there for him. As he was contemplating suicide, he includes the pangs of despised love as one of the wounds that ravage his mind. Our Prince is angered by Ophelias rejection and unleashes his wrath on her, accusing that God has given you one face and you make yourselves a nonher.You trip the light fantastic and amble, and you lisp, you nickname Gods creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance. His isolation and stiffness left Ophelia reeling and despairing, gum olibanum ending with the taking of her own life. Another instance of incest was between Claudius and Gertrude. The taboo of their human relationship brought about Gertrudes death and added to settlements reasons for avenging his take by murdering Claudius. When the cement bonds of family are crushed and globe into dirt, it could cause one to question their life, their worth. All theyve inhabitn vanishes.Family is the stoic brandish that is supposed to support you, be there for you in magazines of need. As Oedipus inadvertently betrays himself and his family, he spells out the demise of his blood line and all others involved. His family becomes a perversion of what a true one should be, spawned out of subversiveness and sin. His realization of his broken family snaps his sanity, crying out, Then had I never come to shed my fathers blood nor climbed my commences bed the monstrous turnedspring of a womb defiled, co-mate of him who gendered me, and child. Was ever man before afflicted thus, like Oedipus? because of the Gods go out, he vote outs his own father and sleeps with his mother. Hes fulfilling the prophecy and his destiny, shoot downting taboos that will end up ripping apart the seams of his rational mind. The betrayal of Jocasta and Laius helped the drool to progress as well. If theyd n ever abandoned their newborn son for death, Oedipus might have avoided ignorantly sleeping with his mother and carelessly murdering his father. The cursed King similarly broke the trust of his people. He alone was the cause of the plague that claimed so many gratuitous citizens of Thebes.Oedipus only wasted age and effort trying to search for the culprit when it was he who was the villain, accusing the innocent of treachery and pointing his finger at all the wrong places. The lovers tryst between Ophelia and crossroads could be categorized as betrayal as well as spurned love. Hamlet looked to the woman he loved for support in his dark time, solely she refused him and sent him absent at the advice of her father. He illustrates his sense of deception when he says, Ay, truly, for the power of dish antenna will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the strength of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives i t proof. I did love you once. The advice Ophelia received from Polonius to stop sightedness Hamlet made the Prince believe that she was just a whore, playing with his emotions. The relationship of Gertrude and Polonius also created a sense of disloyalty for Hamlet. The Queen hardly endured the mourning termination of her late husband before diving into bed with King Hamlets receiver. Hamlet formulated a distrust for women as a result of his mothers actions, lashing out at Ophelia exclaiming, tolerate thee to a nunnery.Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. Once Hamlet learned that his mother was not only sleeping with the Kings brother, but his murderer as well, the knife of disloyalty cut even deeper. Revenge then began to taint his mind with the realization of this great betrayal. simply, the driving force behind the crave for the death of Claudius ca me from the broken trust between brothers. As Claudius poured the venom into King Hamlets ear, it sealed his own death.In both Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, the drama revolves around a broken and disjointed family. Your relatives are those you trust, a net to catch you from any treacherous fall. Oedipus tears apart his family as he taints it with murder and incest, incurring his madness and his parents demise. He knows that because of his dark deeds, he has set a life for his daughters in which theyll unceasingly be haunted by his actions. His knowledge of this sin makes him spurn himself, Their father slew his father, sowed the seed where he himself was gendered, and begat these maidens at the source wherefrom he sprang. Jocasta and Laius also aided in the destruction of their familys foundation when they tried to kill their own son. Oedipus narrates this when he claims, No, let me be a dweller on the hills, on yonder mount Cithaeron, famed as mine, my tomb predestine for me by my sire and mother, while they lived, that I may die off as they sought to slay me, when alive. But, destiny won out and penalise them for their mercilessty, for the prophecy was still fulfilled. In the case of Hamlet, Claudius takes a sledgehammer to the gallant family of Denmark when he kills his own brother.This action was the spark which ignited the flame that would draw the entire family. The Ghost of King Hamlet exposes the treachery of his brother, revealing But know, thou noble youth, the serpent that did sting thy fathers life now wears his crown. The loss of his father was the initiating action that commenced Hamlets depression and the discovery of Claudiuss role spurs him to consider murdering Claudius. When Hamlet finally avenges his father, he makes his uncles broken brotherhood known, Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, drink off this potion. Is thy union here?Follow my mother. Another family wrecked in the play was Poloniuss family. As a conspirator to Cla udius, he received his karma when Hamlet killed him. His action brought down his children as well. He convinced Ophelia to disregard Hamlets advances, thus incurring the Princes loathing for her and making her commit suicide. Claudius convinced Laertes that Hamlet was sick in the mind, dangerous, and the cause for the death of his family. The actions of the ii men brought down this second family, as Poloniuss children were lured into the deceiving web of lies which they had spun. care the venom poured into King Hamlets ear, another type of poisonous substance seethed into the minds of our plays characters. These doomed persons both endured torturous suffering of the mind and the heart. In Oedipus Rex, Jocasta couldnt bear the knowledge of the terrible sins she had committed. In her last despairing words, she cries O woe is thee, poor wretch With that last word I forget thee, henceforth silent evermore. Oedipus couldnt stomach his own tainted self and whatever was left of his cor rupted family.His plea cries for blindness, to blacken all that is sinful, Dark, dark The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. Ah me, ah me What spasms aslant me shoot, what pangs of agonizing memory? But no matter what he does, he cannot escape his sins, even as he stabs his eyes. The suffering of these characters, brought on by the knowledge of what they had committed, was the ultimate weapon which ended them. Our Prince Hamlet was inflicted with the disease of the mind, depression.It lingered in the corners of his mind, a black cloud which fostered his dark thoughts and wishes to avenge his father and all who has wronged him. Hamlet also questions the validity of living, whether it was worth it. To be or not to be? To live or not to live? Hes outlining his depression in that soliloquy, debating whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous incident or to take to arms against a sea of troubles and by argue end them. He paints the image of his tired mind set, for who would be the whips and scorns of time? There is also poor Ophelia, who has cracked underneath her ex-loves cruel words. Well, Godield you She cries in her insanity, They say the owl was a bakers daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at your table. She cries her nonsensical words, demonstrating her fragile state of mind. She ultimately becomes so haunted by the stinging words of Hamlet that she cannot bear her life any longer, thus drowning herself. Both of these characters sufferings gave rise to their final death.In the works of Oedipus Rex and Hamlet, the main characters all suffer a tragic end. Its the themes that permeate the pages which causes their ultimate doom. When a chain of events are set into motion, un-foretold consequences may lurk behind. And so those consequences begin to taint the concepts that we all inherently rely on for a happy life. As human beings, we str ive to attain love, to be accepted into ones heart and to do the same. Accompanying love is the expectancy of fidelity. When Prince Hamlet witnessed the countless deceptions, he lost faith in his fellow man. in any case family, in which there are ties that are stronger than ever, is expected to remain unsophisticated and just to their relationships but this is violated in both plays. As a result, the violation of all the expected concepts brings about the plague of despair that infects ones mind. At the realization that life isnt living up to what they hoped for, questions of existence arise. And so these ideals of cursed love, crumbled loyalty, a broken family and the virtue of suffering all spelled out the imminent demise of our poor characters.