1. Foil Characters in Shakspeare's Hamlet
... "cut[ting] his throat i' th' church" (IV, vii, 125), as opposed to Hamlet who couldn't get himself to kill Claudius while he was repenting in church. This shows that most of Hamlet's thoughts and lack of action are controlled by and are a result of his high morals and values (as presented in his 'to be or not to be' soliloquy), except when he is in a rage, in which he ... very Laertes-like, which is usually very unlike his character. Likewise, both characters' fatherly figures in the play (Polonius to Laertes and Claudius to Hamlet, who wants Hamlet to see him as his new father) recruit...
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