Answer the following questions in a literary essay of at least five paragraphs. Remember to incorporate textual evidence in all of your responses.
As you know, Laertes and Fortinbras are two characters in Shakespeare’s play that serve as foils for Hamlet. How does each figure expose or highlight certain traits in Hamlet’s character, and how does each character’s behavior in the play relate to the themes of of advice and duty, action versus inaction, and sanity versus madness?
Why is the idea of playing a role or acting a part so important to Hamlet over the course of the play? How does role-playing affect several major events in the plot and the relationships between various characters?vice and duty, action versus inaction, and sanity versus madness?
