Tragedis of Oedipus the King and Hamlet

When I study the classical literature, I cannot help thinking of Oedipus the King by Sophocles, even though I don't know much about the classical literature. When I learned about Oedipus the King, the story was quite shoking, and interesting, though it was hard for me to study it when I just got into the college. That's why I keep thinking of it and try to connect it with other literature works.

I would like to write the different tragedies between Oedipus the king and Hamlet briefly. As you know, both Oedipus the King and Hamlet are tragedies.

Oedipus the King by Sophocles is the conventions of Greek Tragedy, which represents the fatalistic point of the world. The Oedipus tries to escape from his settled fatal, but eventually, what he does is what God says. This is irony.

In contrast, Hamlet is the convention of character tragedy. Most of conflicts in Hamlet is due to each character’s character. For example, the reason why Hamlet doesn’t kill the King right after a ghost says is that he is not a decisive and thoughtful person. In Hamlet, you can find that not only Hamlet but other characters have also characteristic tragic factors.

Hamlet

What a tragic tragedy ! everybody dies at the end... and for (almost) nothing. At least in "Romeo and Juliet" their deaths are useful, thanks to them the peace is back to Verona. Despite the fact that Hamlet is a terrible sad tragedy, it's still a good play. Congratulations Shakespeare !

Shakespeare's authenticity

Shakespeare is often recognized as the best english writer of all time. However, many scholars contest his authenticity. According to them, shakespeare couldn't know the royal life so well because he was lived among other social class, hardky ever getting in touch with the royalty.
This theory has never been proved, but there are some authors that are recognized as the most probable real "shakespeare"

-Edward de Vere: a comteporary of shakespeare, was a member of Elizabeth I's court an is recognized is the most probable author to write shakespeare plays since 1930. Scholars compare some of his characters wit shakespeare's, for instance, Polonius (Hamlet) and the Earl's gardian (William Cecil).

-Francis Bancon: the philosopher and writer is one of the potetial candidates to be the real author. However, he had a very occupied life wth his own studies that is in probable that he wold have spare time to produce plays with such quality as Hamlet and Othello.

SHAKESPEARE

This was the first time i met with Shkespeare. Before this i just knew his name like the rest of the world. I read one of his plays. Most probably his masterpiece "Hamlet" . I saw students in movies who complains how hard it is to understand Shakespeare's plays. I partly agree with them. With a different point of view and from some aspects you may have some pleasure while reading and forcing your mind's limits to understand them.It is a new window which open out a different world. I still don't enjoy reading them but at least i know why it is so important for English literature.