Comparing Tragedy In Oedipus And Hamlet's Young Goodman Brown

planning to kill Hamlet by poisoning him during the fencing match, it ends up everyone in that royalty family dying. Hamlet chose his actions for his father. His fate was decided when he found out that Claudius kill king Hamlet and married the queen. It was Claudius who is to be blamed for this tragedy because he wanted to take over as king. “Aristotle focuses his discussion on tragedy, which uses dramatic, rather than narrative, form, and deals with agents who are better than us ourselves. Tragedy serves to arouse the emotions of pity and fear and to effect a katharsis (catharsis) of these emotions. Aristotle divides tragedy into six different parts, ranking them in order from most important to least important as follows: mythos, or plot, character, thought, diction, melody, and spectacle.” (sparknotes.com) The tragedy of Oedipus and Hamlet relates to Aristotle's Poetics because the stories uses pity of the ghost of king hamlet, so Hamlet will feel obligated to seek justice. It uses fear which Oedipus felt when he found out about his prophecy and wanting to avoid it. And the use of catharsis when Hamlet kills Claudius and avenges his father's death. “In the context of the …show more content…
“It was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man did he become from the night of that fearful dream.” The dream he had reveals that he doesn't trust anyone in his town including his wife Faith. This story relates to Hamlet because he finds out that about the tragedy of the death of his father through the ghost which can be similar to how young Goodman Brown sees everyone in his village as evil because of his dream. Puritans taught men to fear his own nature and to suspect that the work of the devil is everywhere, just as the ghost of king Hamlet asking to avenge his death from a