1. Foil Characters in Shakspeare's Hamlet
... 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 ... think of the after-life and death and takes a long time to plan the murder of Claudius (only after he saw his mother 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 ... soliloquy), except when ...
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