... O"Connor to keep anonymous (Wohlgelernter 3). At least 70 of his short stories related to Irish family life and a majority of those related to his own life experiences. "My Oedipus Complex" was one of those stories. The Greek mythological character Oedipus was the son of Lauis, king of Thebes, and Jocasta. An oracle warned Lauis that if he had a son, his son would kill him. When ... 's ankles with spikes and gave him to a herdsman to leave him on a mountain to die. On the mountain, the horsemen of King Polybus of Corinth found him and brought him to the city where the Queen Periboea adop...

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... of soliloquies, where as before every other line was a soliloquy -- like a soap opera. Hamlet's language likewise undergoes a shift to active verbs only. When Hamlet searches for the letters from Claudius to the King of England, he says, "In the dark, / Groped I to find out them, had my desire, / Fingered their packet, and in fine withdrew / To mine own room again, making so bold, / My ... not want to dull his sense while he is fighting. Gertrude offers to drink for him. The wine turns out to be poisoned and Gertrude dies. Perhaps this is the fuel that actually gives Hamlet the real rag...

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