Foil Hamlet
"That drop of blood that calm proclaimsSince the beginning, Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras had been proclaimed bastardby the deaths of their father by another's hand. Experiencing the same pain of the loss oftheir fathers, each of them wished to seek the recompense of it with the blood of thosewho murdered their fathers. With the experience came a driving force that wouldoverpower their own will. A relationship of holding a vendetta would be one of the manysimilarities as so they would also share many differences. "Let come what comes, only I'll be revenged Most throughly for my father." (4, 5, 153-154)Imposing madness forced upon Laertes, lured him into a path that has lead himastray from the life of happiness and bliss he had known. The death of his father hasimposed an insanity unlike and he has yet to know about. The insanity that Laertes isexperiencing here is much like the insanity Hamlet has been feeling and experiencingthrough out the entire tragedy. At this point, both Hamlet and Laertes were so similar inthere insanity. Such similarities like a strong hatred toward King Claudius and anoverwhelming need to avenge the deaths of their dear fathers.
Fortinbras had an immediatereplication as did Laertes unlike Hamlet. It is the contrasts that set them from each other and make them a foil toeach other. he has my dying voice So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less, Which have solicited- the rest is silence. From the beginning, they were close opposites before the death of KingHamlet. He would feel his world belowhim begin to crumble with the death of his father, but destroyed when he had baredwitness to the shamble of Ophelia's crushed soul. Withthis, Hamlet had found himself that he was being much too merciful upon the very personwho had shown no mercy to his father. Dissimilar to Laertes, Fortinbras had orchestrated an attack on the castle with thearmy he had built up. The scene of a beautiful Ophelia crushed bythe strong wills that has overcame Hamlet. With somany burials and deaths of people, it seemed to be like the earth breathing each body in. The vow heplaced has now damned him to eternal hell, freeing him from the path of ignorant joy ofknowing that his father has and will always be there. As Hamlet perceiving his father'sspirit, Laertes had found that the death must not go unpunished for. "O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables-- meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. " (1, 5, 112-114)A residing difference between Hamlet and Laertes is the immediate reaction tothe epiphany of their driving force. Fortinbras was assembling his forces while Hamlet was waitingfor Claudius to be in a compromisable situation to curse his soul to hell forever. By the end, Hamlet and Laertes completedtheir paths to oblivion which was the hell they were so damned by their vows of murder.
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