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114: 20: 105:. Prince Hal says that when he starts behaving better, the change will impress people: "And like bright metal on a sullen ground/ My reformation, glittering o'er my fault/ Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes/ Than that which hath no foil to set it off." 171:, Edward Murdstone's marriage to David's mother Clara, contrasts with David's future marriage to Dora Spenlow, presented with a different outcome if David had endeavored to subdue his wife's caprices, as did Edward Murdstone with Clara's. 2198: 301:, and have received extensive combat training, Paul is compassionate and wishes to avoid war while Feyd is portrayed as interested solely in the acquisition of power. 1559: 1888: 68:
A foil usually either differs dramatically or is an extreme comparison that is made to contrast a difference between two things.
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places these uses of literary foils into three categories, which Tamara A. P. Metze explains as: those that emphasize the
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to elaborate the differences between the two men. In Act V Scene 2, Prince Hamlet tells Laertes that he will
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and the Death Eaters wholeheartedly, whereas Draco struggles with his allegiances through the whole series.
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In some cases, a subplot can be used as a foil to the main plot. This is especially true in the case of
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is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the
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and his "creature"—are literary foils to each other, functioning to compare one to the other.
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comes from the old practice of backing gems with foil to make them shine more brightly.
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reveals the foil between Hamlet and Laertes that was developed throughout the play.
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George and Lennie are foils to each other in John Steinbeck's 1937 novella
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Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories: Anglo-Italian Transactions
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enables both characters "to experience the essential adventures of
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Character who contrasts with another character of a narrative work
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Shakespeare refers directly to the origin of the term "foil" in
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Fictional characters by role in the narrative structure
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serve as character foils for one another, as well as
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Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
Gustave Doré
narrative
protagonist
antagonist
metafiction
story within a story
Thomas F. Gieryn
Henry IV, Part 1

Dr. Frankenstein
his monster
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
Dr. Frankenstein
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Cassius
Mark Antony
Romeo and Juliet

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