We analyzed Shakespeare's use of a triple foil as developed in Act IV. We first studied Hamlet's soliloquy after he encounters Fortinbras' army as evidence of Hamlet's view of Mankind- a brute in the absence of action- and his renewed view toward the need for urgent action. Here Hamlet again commits himself to immediate action. I explained how the characters act as foils or contrasts in that Hamlet and Fortinbras both have consciousness of their mortality but Fortinbras subsumes his fear by bravely confronting death even for minor cause.. Later,we studied how Laertes "rash " and emotional demand for revenge in response to his father's death also contrasts with Hamlet who struggles to subsume his thoughts to action, Last, I explained how Act IV dramatizes chaos which the tragic structure will resolve in Act V.