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Foil gives writers the opportunity to highlight certain aspects of a main character’s personality by setting them against another character with a contrasting personality, motivations, or set of values. This contrast captures the reader’s attention and enhances the meaning of a literary work.
2 Αυγ 2022 · A foil character is someone who contrasts the traits and actions of another character, often the protagonist. By contrasting two different characters, the author seeks to emphasize the strengths, weaknesses, philosophies, and/or themes that each character represents.
27 Αυγ 2023 · A foil character is a fictional character that serves to expose something intrinsic in another character. Oftentimes, the thing that is exposed is a character folly, like cowardice or greed.
1 Σεπ 2021 · In literature, a foil character is someone whose qualities contrast and accentuate the protagonist's most important personality traits. The term originates from an old jeweler's technique of backing gems with foil to make them shine brighter.
2 Νοε 2023 · A literary foil is a character who contrasts with the main character in order to highlight the main character’s attributes. The purpose of the foil is to give the protagonists more color, depth, and nuance.
Foil in the literary sense stems from foil-backed gems, which were lined with metallic material to increase light reflection, deepen color, and enhance brilliance. Character foils serve similar purposes—they highlight, emphasize, and enrich characters, plots, symbols, and other narrative elements.
In literature, a foil is a character that has characteristics that oppose another character, usually the protagonist. The foil character may be completely opposite to the protagonist, or very similar with one key difference.
