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Horatio, Fortinbras, Claudius, and Laertes are characters that Shakespeare includes in Hamlet as obvious foils for Hamlet.

A foil is a character who sets off another person by being a contrast to that person.  For a character to be a foil to Hamlet, he or she must have aspects in common with him in order for any differences to become more obvious.

Both characters Laertes and Fortinbras have a number of aspects in common with Hamlet; however. they respond to their circumstances in markedly different ways.

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