1. Foil Characters in Shakspeare's Hamlet
... 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 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 ... different. Hamlet, upon knowing the truth from the ghost, weeps and vows to take revenge, then proceeds to think of the after-life and death and takes a long time to plan the murder of Claudius (only afte...
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