that was what i was thinking of doing as well - to be safe. Plutarch offers some great conflict to shakespeare, but i also thought that other mediums that relate to assasination (for example) are relevant. But yeah, i agree it's super ambiguous and our teacher's response was just to 'define what...
i did pretty much that storyline last year, but we were doing change (although i could probably adapt it to belonging i think). it started with the little baby thing revelling in the darkness and 'king of the world' type thing then went through the process of being born. used a lot of contrast...