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Hamlet Dramatic Foil in a play is where a person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast. Shakespeare uses this tactic is all of his plays to analyze characters. In the play “Hamlet” the character Hamlet is plagued by the death of his father and angered by the marriage of his uncle to his mother. Shakespeare uses dramatic foil to analyze the character of Hamlet. Hamlet is saddened by the Death of his dear father. When he finds out by a visit of the ghost of his father that his Uncle Claudius murdered him. His character is conflict between these two feelings and Shakespeare uses this conflict to create the dramatic foil. Hamlet decides that he will co