Literary Foils In Macbeth And Gulliver's Travels

Literary foils exist throughout British literature. British authors like William Shakespeare, Louis Steverson, and Jonathan Swith have literary foils that define the character. Macbeth, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Gulliver’s Travels contain literary. Throughout British literature, literary foils are in Macbeth, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Gulliver’s Travels such as Macbeth and Macduff, Jekyll and Hyde, and Gulliver and the dwarf. The first literary foil in British literature is between Maceth and Macduff. Macbeth is first accused of the murder of Duncan, which causes conflict between Macbeth and Macduff. A lot of people have concentrated on the themes and the elusive forces that motivated Macbeth and Lady Macbeth on the murder of Duncan.

‘Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word Macduff is fled to England. Macbeth. Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits. The flighty purpose never is o’er took Unless the deed go with it. From this moment The very first things of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts be it thought, and done: the castle of Macduff I will surprise; seize upon Fife; give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate sould That trace hum in his line. No boasting like a fool; This deed I’ll do before this purpose cool: But no more sights!-Where are these gentlemen? Come, being me where they are. (IV)
Macbeth thinks Macduff is a traitor for fleding to England, so he orders his family to be killed. A murderer takes orders from Macbeth to kill everyone in Macbeth’s castle. Ross tells Macduff that Macbeth had Macduff’s family and everyone else in his castle killed. (Shakespeare,

The first conflict between Jekyll and Hyde is when Jekyll could not control when he turned into Hyde. One night Hyde ran headlong into a child for no reason. Jekyll thought that he was taken precaution to furnish safely for Hyde, but two months before Sir Danvers Carew was murdered, a terrifying thing occurred. Jekyll awoke and realized that he was not himself. He thought that he was gone to bed in his own body he was not sure for he realized that he was awakened in the small misshapen body of Hyde. It became clear to Jekyll that he was to triple the dosage of the drug in order to keep Hyde in check. Jekyll did not have a choice because he was not just losing himself. He was losing the power to return to his normal self (Roberts). A second conflict between Jekyll could not control Hyde’s actions. Hyde ran over a little girl, and for the first time he feared for his life. In order to cheer up the little girl’s family, Hyde opened the door to the dissecting room. He went inside, and wrote a check on Jekyll’s account. Jekyll was okay with Hyde’s first incident but when Sir Danver died, Jekyll had enough of Hyde. Sir Danver was a well respected man in England, whom Hyde had murdered by using a cain to club him to death. A maid witnessed Hyde murdering Sir Danver. Utterson asked Jekyll if he had heard about the murder of Sir Danver. Jekyll says that he heard the paper boys’ yelling about it earlier, when