“That drop of blood that calm proclaims me bastard” (4, 5, 130-131) Since the beginning, Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras had been proclaimed bastard by the deaths of their father by another’s hand. Experiencing the same pain of the loss of their fathers, each of them wished to seek the recompense of it with the blood of those who murdered their fathers. With the experience came a driving force that would overpower their own will. A relationship …showed first 75 words of 1427 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1427 total…found himself in Fortinbras. The death of Polonius had offset a second foil to Hamlet and Fortinbras with the catalyst of the insanity of Ophelia. The oncoming of Laertes into the chamber made him the foil to the men. By the end, Hamlet and Laertes completed their paths to oblivion which was the hell they were so damned by their vows of murder. The very same vows that had made them a foil to Fortinbras.