compare and contrast the ideas of fate and crime in Oedipus, Tyrannus and Hamlet. How do the playwrights use the ideas of supernatural (of prophesy, of crime) in the world of their plays, What can their treatment of crime and the supernatural tell us about the culture the play emerges from? What, if anything, can it tell us about ourselves and our own world? About our ideas of right and wrong and of personal responsibility.