Often overlooked, there is always your antagonist, the potent mastermind in the play who eventually comes to his death when his evil ways are discovered. ... In "Oedipus Rex", the antagonist is actually Oedipus himself. ... Claudius and Oedipus are highly comparable. ... In "Oedipus Rex" the audience knows that even though Oedipus is trying to escape his fate, it is going to come true. ... (pg 1484 L 87) but really is a murderer who has everyone brainwashed, "And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe, but even his mother shall uncharged the practice, and call it an accident". ...

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Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. ... Hamlet truly does suffer from the Oedipus complex. ... There are different concepts on the Oedipus complex. Sigmund Freud was the one who created the idea in 1897, but others have critiqued it. ... Freud points out that Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, has taken over his father's rightful place, and therefore has replaced his father as the man who must die (Jones 1). ...

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Hamlet's Oedipus Complex towards his mother linked with his profound feelings of melancholia are the direct roots of his other problems. What is the Oedipus complex and what is melancholia? To start, here is the definition of the Oedipus Complex. The Oedipus Complex is the positive libidinal feelings of a child toward the parent of the opposite sex and hostile or jealous feelings toward the parent of the same sex that may be a source of adult personality disorder when unresolved. ... His mother and father are dead; his former love Ophelia is dead, and everyone else who ever opposed him...

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First, it is claimed that Hamlet suffered from an Oedipus complex in a slight sense. ... If Hamlet did indeed have the Oedipus complex then it helps explain many of his actions. ... It shows revenge with all of its negative aspects and consequences, seen in the final act when all are dead but Fortinbras, who was the only one not to seek revenge. ...

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It is based on the Historia Danica (1200) by Saxo Grammaticus, a Danish historian who wrote it in Latin. ... Because of this tendency, psychologists have concluded that Hamlet must have suffered from an Oedipus complex (pinkmonkey.com). According to the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, all males possess this tendency, which is marked by a desire to kill their fathers and marry their mothers; as occurs in the earlier Greek play of Oedipus the king. ... This weakness was copied from Thomas Kyd's earlier play Spanish Tragedy; who also wrote a play named Ur-Hamlet (Wikipedia.org). ... In...

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Throughout the play we see many different aspects of Hamlet's personality by observing his actions in exacting his revenge on his uncle, Claudius, who killed his father and incestuously married his mother to take control of the throne. ... As Edward Wagenknecht puts it, "this is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind." ... He took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven. ... Some critics attribute Hamlets inability to act to an Oedipus ...

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Revenge tragedies originally stemmed from the Greeks, who wrote and performed the first plays. After the Greeks came Seneca who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. ... There is also a suggestion of the Oedipus complex, which would obviously have made Hamlet crave revenge even more. ...

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