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Shakespeare, William. ”(Sophocles 245-47)

Hamlet found himself placed in a very similar position as Oedipus. Oedipus’ temper caused him to murder his father, blinded him his truth, and resulted in his self-mutilation. Realizing the gods were right all along, he decides to inflict more pain onto himself to show his remorse and sorrow. Inaction became Hamlet’s tragic flaw; he could have killed Claudius many a time and ascertain the throne, avenging his father’s death. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Sophocles. “

In the end, Oedipus and Hamlet became the classic tragic hero, for all of the trouble they caused themselves and other people.

Both Hamlet and Oedipus suffered tragic flaws that lead to their mutual demises. Instead, Hamlet spent month after month planning and re-planning his scheme to expose Claudius at “just the right time and place. ”

The two tragic flaws compare, because of the amazing fallout they each had. “But that the dread of something after death, the undiscover’d country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action. The tragic flaws of both characters also lead to the audience’s pity for them, and to their ultimate “heroic” status. Without their flaws neither Oedipus nor Hamlet would have been the tragic hero of ill-repute that they have become to be in modern times.