1. Foil Characters in Shakspeare's Hamlet
... saw Ophelia's corpse in the grave. One major difference, though, is that the audience was never really sure of the trueness of Hamlet's feelings for Ophelia until the end of the play when he said "I lov'd Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum" (V, i, ... 277-279), where as Laertes' love for Ophelia was always there since the very beginning of the play when he was advising her against believing Hamlet's love, albeit in a domineering way, just like Hamlet's attitude with his mother, the ... think of the after-life and death and takes a...
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