I've already started noticing some connections between the two tragedies. One of the largest similarities is the concept of deception. In this case, it's not necessarily attempting to deceiev someone, but it is witholding informaton from them or lying to them. LIke Hjalmers in Wild Duck, seeing his father at the party in the first Act and then in this one, trying to lie to his father about him being unaware his father was there. This is similar to Oedipus in the shepard, trying to withold information from Oedipus, Creon, Jocasta, etc.
In constrast however, so far I had noticed many motifs that differ from the other tragedies. LIke Oedipus, the motif of blindness was shown throughout the entire story, but in Wild Duck, we haven't yet seen anything hinting at blindness. Also, my tracking topic had to do with "The Word of the Gods", and I haven't seen any relation to this in Wild Duck, most likely due to to the authors' differentiating views on religion and gods.
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