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Foiling Hamlet

Foiling Hamlet. How Shakespeare uses a literary device…. THE FOIL. Foils. A foil is a character whose qualities or actions emphasize those of the protagonist (or other characters in the story) by providing a strong contrast to them .

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Foiling Hamlet

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  1. Foiling Hamlet How Shakespeare uses a literary device… THE FOIL

  2. Foils • A foil is a character whose qualities or actions emphasize those of the protagonist (or other characters in the story) by providing a strong contrast to them . • By looking at the similarities and differences between two characters, the audience can get a better understanding of the major character.

  3. So, for example: If you were telling a story about a really stingy person, you might want to add a minor character who is very generous. That could make the first guy seem even stingier.

  4. The generous guy would be a foil for the stingy guy. You can have more than one foil for a character.

  5. In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses foils to develop the major characters of his play.

  6. Hamlethas several foils. He’s a complicated guy.

  7. So...Who are Hamlet’s foils? • Which qualities of these characters make them so?

  8. Sources: • http://nweb.pct.edu/homepage/staff/evavra/Enl121/Mp3/S98/S98G81-03.htm • Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick

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