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Heaven, Hell, and the Divine Despot may descend to earth and have offspring in the Hamlet theme which involves a child's " ambivalent attitude " toward its parents and off of which are spun such variants as Oedipus and Orestes ( Bodkin 1934: 11-15, cited in Williams 1973: 221 ), or all may remain at the divine level, as in the situation with Milton's God and Satan, or Aeschylus's Zeus and Prometheus: