Both plays the female characters to a kind of spoken suppression, which I will argue, leads to suffering and ultimately to their deaths: Lavinia will be physically tortured and is killed by the hands of her own father (filicide), while Cordelia will be emotionally mistreated, cast out, and killed in an attempt to remove all power from King Lear and his favorite daughter. ... Tamora put emphasis on her new-founded citizenship as Rome's emperor, which removes all ordinary barriers between the enemies and brings the offended close to the offender into a realm of likeness. ... Tamora's ...

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The classic tragedy, Oedipus tells the story of the King of Thebes, Oedipus who foolishly tries to challenge fate and evade prophecy, which proclaimed that he would murder his father and marry his mother. ... Teiresias: Shall I add more to make thee rage the more Oedipus: Add the all you will. ... And all is true! ... Not only are all of the necessary elements of the cathartic moment present in Oedipus, which conforms almost perfectly to the true tragic form as outlined by Aristotle, but also, Oedipus, who is the king of Thebes, is of a high social status compared to the average reader. ... Fo...

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