Life is full of surprises, one day you could be the most happiest and most virtuous person on earth, and all of a sudden life can come at you in the most gruesome way possible and make you feel like nothing matters anymore. But what makes a person surpass these circumstances, and better themselves is by how well people manage to overcome these obstacles. Therefore In the tragedy, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the drama demonstrates Hamlet’s and Laertes many similarities as well as their differences within the play. But also how both Hamlet and Laertes are shown by Shakespeare as foils in order to make the play more vivid and appealing but also to demonstrate, the way they both lose their father’s’, as well as Hamlet and Laertes taking revenge for their father 's’ death, and lastly, the relationship of Ophelia toward both Hamlet and Laertes.
Both Hamlet and Laertes have been faced with many hardship throughout the story, yet nothing compares to how they both lost their dear father´s’ to misshaves. In the play Hamlet, Hamlet starts the story without his father, since it was believed that king Hamlet had “Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, “A serpant stung me.”(1.5.35-36). Yet when King Hamlet mentions to Hamlet that he indeed did not end up dying by a “A serpant stung”(1.5.36), but by “The serpant that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown” (1.5.39-40). While Laertes father, Polonius ends up dying halfways through the play, Laertes rushes back from France