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Good start

You're off to a good start, but remember that the idea of a foil is not just that they have things in common, but that seeing them side-by-side makes us aware of things (presumably about Hamlet, since he's our main interest) that we wouldn't notice without the comparison. So, for example, we might think that Hamlet is not handling his father's death very well until we see that Ophelia, in a similar situation, handles it much worse, so Hamlet begins to look a little better. Think of other ways the comparison shows us things about Hamlet.

Posted by Hamlet on March 22, 1997 at 12:50:46
 In Reply to "FOIL with Hamlet and Ophelia" posted by Tiffany on March 21, 1997 at 21:05:20


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