Fratricide is founded as the result of a fratricide, when the twins Romulus and Remus quarrel over who has the favor of the gods and over each other's plans to build Rome, and Romulus becomes Rome's first king and namesake after killing his brother. In the Hindu epic Mahābhārata, Karna was killed by Arjuna who didn't know that Karna was his eldest brother. Though not exactly fratricide the otherwise meticulously pious Arjuna's actions - where he pitilessly and against the rules of honorable warfare slayed an unarmed Karna - are nevertheless considered utterly deplorable and heinous. However, the context of the
Fratricide Punished "Ur-Hamlet," a kind of primordial source text which some scholars have suggested was used by Shakespeare in creating his "Hamlet". The existence of the "Ur-Hamlet" is debated in itself. Lastly, Duthie argues that the long gap between the assumed time of the text's creation and its discovery is wholly unaccounted for, leaving room for any number of changes. Zachary Lesser, discussing the impact of Q1 "Hamlet" on the popular reception of Q2 and F1, demonstrates the way that both Q1 and "Fratricide Punished" have been used to support arguments from multiple camps across decades of time, a testament to the