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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My point is this - that we ALL influenced by past events and stories.  And these stories live on forever in great works.  They're known as ALLUSIONS.

Go study, my friend, and you'll start to see connections.  Literature is based on myth, and the bible is literature.

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Um, no. "Allusions" is not the word you want. Allusions are backwards-looking references. You, however, seem to be arguing that Shakespeare couldn't have come up with Hamlet on his own, if he hadn't already been familiar with the Cain and Abel myth. Your theory would make Cain and Abel much more than a mere "allusion" for Shakespeare, and more like a "primary source."

You've taken Campbell's ideas, you've run too far with them, and you've mired yourself in a bog. Whatever your issues with terminology, you're still wrong. Fratricide has scandalized humankind since our ancestors first stood up straight. You don't have to rely on old stories to think fratricide woukd be a good subject for a play. Pretty sure that Campbell would agree that you've stretched the myth thing too far here. Sure, you can fancify your play by using the "literary convention" of sprinkling in "allusions" to the Bible, but that in no way means that Shakespeare wouldn't have known about fratricide without the Bible.[/quote]

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