This document provides character summaries for Oedipus, Hamlet, and Willy Loman. It describes each character's social position, personal qualities, weaknesses, goals, and fate. For Oedipus, it notes he was king of Thebes but was blinded and banished for killing his father and marrying his mother. Hamlet was prince of Denmark who avenged his father's murder but ultimately died confronting his uncle Claudius. Willy Loman was a lower/middle class salesman whose dishonesty and devotion to money ultimately led to his death.