Assignment for the week of: 3-23_09!!

During my blog this week I wanted to discuss how Shakespeare includes characters in the book Hamlet as foils for Hamlet. Some of them are Horatio, Laertes, Claudius, and Laertes. Im going to talk about how they are alike and different espeacially when responding to crises. Horatio’s is very loyal which contrasts with Hamlet because he’s a person who is very changeable and has the quality of being excitable, even though they both share a love of learning, understanding and reason of thought. Claudius’s another character who is willing to disregard all moral law and act decisively to fulfill his fanticies and lust for power which contrasts powerfully with Hamlet’s concern for morality. Fortinbras’s has a great additude of willingness to go to great lengths to avenge his father’s death, even to the point of waging war and any sort of division that may come with it, this on the other hand contrasts sharply with Hamlet’s inactivity, even though both of them are concerned with avenging their fathers. Laertes’ is one who is single-minded, and has a desire to avenge Polonius whos a opposition to Hamlet’s inactivity with regard to his own father’s death.However even though these characters may differ, Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras are all in a position to seek revenge for the murders of their fathers, and their situations are deeply emotional personal and revengeful. Hamlet’s father killed Fortinbras’s father, and Hamlet killed Laertes’ father, exemplifying the fact that Hamlet occupies the same role for Laertes as Claudius does for Hamlet.