Foils in HamletHamlet by William Shakespeare is a well-known play. Shakespeare uses sheets in Hamlet to further create and explain Hamlet's character. Foils are created in a play to help the audience better understand a main character by giving the character someone to talk to and compare the main character to. [Using the definition as a thesis was not a good idea in this article. The assignment was not stated in the first paragraph, that is, the paper had to be about how foils influence the meaning of this play.] Foils are minor characters created in a play to help the audience better understand a main character by giving them someone to talk to and discuss. Ophelia can be considered a foil for Hamlet because she helps us see the different attitudes Hamlet has towards certain things. Hamlet, after finding out that his father has been murdered, begins to act crazy and give Ophelia mixed signals about his love for her. Ophelia believes that Hamlet loves her but, due to her father's desires, she constantly rejects him and denies feeling the same. Ophelia finally reports and denies that she loves him, but Hamlet states that "I loved you once." He also stated that "You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot thus inoculate our old stock but we will enjoy it. I did not love you." "Go to a convent." These lines from the play state [SV -1] that Hamlet pretended to be delirious and pretended to love Ophelia because of what Claudius had done to his father. Not only does the "Take Thee to a Nunnery" scene show how Hamlet feels towards Ophelia, but it also shows Hamlet's feelings towards marriage and women. Hamlet tells Ophelia to go to a convent because she shouldn't want to be a "breeder of sinners" and because there shouldn't be any more marriages. Hamlet no longer wants marriage because that would mean more children and according to Hamlet the only children born from marriage are sinners. Ophelia is also considered a foil to Hamlet because of the difference in how each grieves the death of their father. The difference between the way Hamlet and Ophelia grieved is that Ophelia's grief was actually for her father, while Hamlet's grief was for his mother..