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This 3 page paper discusses the role that illusion and reality play in the development of the characters of Oedipus and Hamlet. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the plays follow the pattern of a hero struggling against all odds and in the end succumbing to his own code of conduct after managing to bring some good to
others. Throughout the plays appearances are deceiving, illusion seems real and reality seems false. It is the discovery of the truth, that eventually brings both plays to their ultimate and
tragic conclusions. In most of Sophocles plays, he opens with the main characters in a monologue of some sort in which the protagonist reveals the problem presented to him and
what he intends to do about it. In Oedipus, it is quite evident that he is outraged at Lauis death and states that he will track down the perpetrator. This
determination to find the murderer of the man he has replaced as King is interesting and shows the first character trait, which is that of a moral sense of right
and wrong. Evidently, he does not yet know that he is the man who has killed Laius. Thus, the truth is that he is the man responsible for Laius death
and the very man that he searches for..is himself, ironically. "For whoso slew that king might have a mind To strike me too with his assassin hand.
Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite a bit about the character of Oedipus. In this play, Oedipus is
faced with the tragic moral dilemma which is not of his own doing, for the most part. However, because he perceives his wrongdoing as an immoral act (even though it
was perpetuated in ignorance) that he must pay the ultimate price: death. This is a logical conclusion, though an unhappy one, because his moral compass for right and wrong is
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