Since the beginning of time, the battle between good and evil has been the epic prediction of man's hardened sense of self. Whether it's in the theater of war fought on open battlefields, or whether it's just the little angel or demon sitting on your shoulder telling you right and wrong. The battle between angels and demons is constant and never ends until death, when one meets their ultimate destiny. Hamlet and Oedipus suffer from their own individual flaws which propel them towards their unhappy fate. Hamlet's father is murdered by his brother Claudius, while Oedipus kills his own father. The countries of Hamlet and Oedipus are in turmoil. Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, took over the kingdom of Denmark after murdering his own brother, the aged King Hamlet, and for Oedipus, the only way to rid Thebes of its downward 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 on a path to destruction. Let's start with what I define as...