Showing posts with label foil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foil. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Shakespeare's Own WWE Smackdown: Laertes vs. Hamlet!

I find, being a list-maker, that blocking out my ideas in a list format is just so much more useful to my own learning and edification. Plus it's easier for others to read.
So, while I was reading the last act of Hamlet, I noticed that Laertes and Hamlet have a lot of similarities in situation, but the results were somewhat different. I have been told before that Laertes is Hamlet's literary foil. So I decided to map it out to see just how that actually works in the play, and especially in the last scene.