Some Similarities Between The Bhagavad Gita and Hamlet

After first reading The Bhagavad Gita and Hamlet I searched for the reason why we were reading them together, looking for an epiphany if you will, about the correlation between the two works. I am still searching because i haven't found it yet, however i did find some smaller connections between the two stories. Both Hamlet and Arjuna are princes, Hamlet is the son of the King of Denmark and Arjuna is the son of Indra, king of the gods. I think that both Hamlet and Arjuna being princes allows them to symbolize not just one character but instead their entire society. Both characters find themselves in situations which require them to kill family members, both characters are faced with a difficult internal dilemma. if the characters are both representative of something larger than one person than the necessity of murdering a relative seems to be an interesting aspect. I suppose that to me this does not necessarily mean that society is faced with the conflict over murdering a family member, instead I think that being forced to kill someone in your family is shown as one of the worst things someone could be forced to do. Therefore this is more representative of the struggles between doing something you know that you must even though it seems like the worst thing possible.