... the three main/prominent young men in Hamlet (Fortinbras being the third) are each other's foil characters. This element created by Shakespeare helped the readers better understand the depth and mystery of their characters as they are indirectly compared and contrasted throughout the play. Hence, all striking similarities and sharply contrasted differences are not a mere co-incidence. Hamlet and Laertes are compared to each ... other in terms of their different kind of love for the same person, Ophelia, who is the lover of the former and the sister of the latter: they both ... by and a...

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• Grade Level: Graduate