1. Foil Characters in Shakspeare's Hamlet
... both reacted in a rather violently grieving way when they 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 ... dying in front of him did he consider killing Claudius justifiable) despite the golden opportunities presented to him. On the other hand Laertes does not think twice about when and how he will avenge his father Polonius' death by arranging with Claudius to kill Hamlet, even if that requires "c...
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