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In the play Hamlet, William Shakespeare uses the characters of Laertes and Horatio as foils to the tragic figure of Hamlet. Because Hamlet's character is in contrast to them, he becomes more vivid for the reader. In the lawless and poisonous "unweeded garden" , th ....

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.... King addresses King Claudius to a "vile king" , takes out his sword and points it threateningly at the King, demanding of him where his father's corpse is. Also he immediately declares that nothing can stop his "will, not all the world" and will "husband them so well" . He is ready to take revenge at any cost. I dare damnation: to this point I stand, That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged Most thoroughly for my father. In the scene of Ophelia's grave, Laertes' love to Ophelia is expressed when Laertes leaps into the grave and says Hold off the earth a while, Till I have caught her once more ....