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I need a short example of Dramatic Foil, in writing... If you could, please tell me why it is Dramatic Foil... I want to understand for school, but cannot quite grasp the concept... PLEASE HELP

Answer 1

Dramatic Foils are characters in literature whose differing characteristics are emphasized by those traits that are opposed in another character. Such foils are easily observed in every day life. All things are intensified when experienced in comparison to an opposite. If one exits a dimly lit room and is exposed to the midday sun, the sunny atmosphere seems even brighter. Likewise, the sunny outdoors makes one become more aware of the poorly lit area they just exited. It is this way that foils can serve to define such qualities.

Answer 2

A Dramatic foil is a minor character who resembles or is in parallel circumstances to the central figure of the production. Foils are similar enough to the main character(s) to provide a useful basis of comparison, but different enough that the comparison is meaningful: they enhance our understanding of the main character's personality traits or actions.

An example of such could be seen in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End". Contrast the two characters, Ms. Elizabeth Swan and Captain Jack Sparrow. While Ms. Swan is doing her best as a normal person to adapt to being in the pirate world, Captain Sparrow truly seems so much bigger and outrageous as he dashes from scene to scene with crazy ideas that seem to get him out of any situation.

Main Character - Captain Jack Sparrow

Dramatic Foil - Ms. Elizabeth Swan

Savvy?

Answer 3

Dramatic foil is a technique that is used to place great understanding upon something being conveyed. It is used in a variety of manners. . .

One way to understand the concept is to think about, how would you know what the best day of your life was if you didn't have any other day to compare it to?

Dramatic Foil allows a comparison to occur by taking characteristics of one character and contrasting them with characteristics of another character. . .

a good example in literature is actually the exact place that foil came from. . .this is Hamlet by Shakespeare. . .Hamlet says, "I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance/ Your skill shall, like a star i'the darkest night, Stick fiery off indeed" Act five Scene 2

Answer 4

A foil is a character who is paired with another character to complement and develop his personality. Think about CSI: Miami. Horatio is the protagonist. Susie, his brother Ray's girlfriend, is a complementary foil because her character's purpose is to show us the depths of H's love for family, and devotion to the principle of family. That helps us to understand who Horatio is. The Mala Nocce guy...the one who killed Ray...he's a dramatic foil too because he helps to show how far Horatio would go to do what he thinks is right.

Read the Wikipedia description of foil...dramatic or comic or complementary are all types of foils, but foil is the main convention.

Hope this helps a little. Also hope you watch CSI: Miami, or my descriptions won't be very useful.

Answer 5

Definition: a dramatic foil is a minor character who resembles or is in parallel circumstances to a central figure in the play.

It would be a character in a story or play that is sorta like one of the main characters, or can relate to their situation, I think.

Hope I helped?
~Kanna

Answer 6

Dramatic foil works are applicable to most literary characters manifesting a switch of one's non-fictional character to fictional character...emphasized and dramatized with opposite situations..........

A very simple character is a farmer struggling for life and has been bound to live all his life in the field..but aims for a brighter tomorrow..so he goes out his way to the city and find a greener of what he thought would be a better opportunity, but as lives in the city , he finds poverty is so rampant that they cant even but the staple food rice which he himself used to plant and feed people...so he comes back to himslef and says that at least as a farmer though it was very difficult tilling the land he had food to eat and no need to struggle for that......see it shows the vulnerability of the character that he was alot luckier when he was toiling in the field but had no deficiency or lack..with that comparison in mind, the character felt and appreciated the best opportunity of his life as a farmer by going through another character's experience.,,, that is to compare when he switched his role as a plain clerk....
very simple explanation.....got it?
Ok?hope it helps................