Since time began, the battle between good and evil has been the epic prediction of man's hardened sense of self. Whether in the theater of war fought on open battlefields, or whether it is simply the little angel or demon that sits on your shoulder and tells you right and wrong. The battle between one's angels and demons is constant and never ends until death, when one meets their final fate. Hamlet and Oedipus suffer from their own individual flaws that push them towards their unfortunate fate. Hamlet's father is murdered by his brother Claudius, while Oedipus kills his father. The homelands of Hamlet and Oedipus are in turmoil. Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, conquered the kingdom of Denmark after killing his brother, the old King Hamlet and for Oedipus the only way to free Thebes from its spiral of death and disease was to abolish the individual responsible for the murder of Laius. William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles' Oedipus the King are both tragic stories of two men with tragic flaws that ultimately send them down a path of destruction. Let's start with what I define as...