Helena Essays

it’s not mutual? Helena struggles with romance during A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Relationships, divorces, and breakups all have one thing in common, romance. Helena is madly in love with Demetrius, but the “love” is not mutual. This supports that relationships, divorces, and breakups all have one thing in common, romance. As a person you would think that Helena should move on if Demetrius is going to be like that, but inside of Helena’s mind, there is nobody better than him. Helena expresses this

oneselves. This is what pushes Helena to reclaim Demetrius’ love from Hermia. She shows that like in many situations, there are two sides to love. Firstly, she continues to stay loyal to Demetrius even after facing rejection. She also reminds us of love’s arbitrary nature. Finally, she teaches us that with love, one must be willing to take risks and face the outcomes. While many characters in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, express the virtuous side of love, Helena highlights the reality

name is Helena is compulsive. Firstly, In the play the character Helena is obsessed with Demetrius a character form the play. Helen is so obsessed that she follows Demetrius throughout the woods. He is mad that Helena is following him so she says “For my heart/is true as steel: leave you your power to draw/ and I shall have no power to follow you” (Act 2, Scene 1, line 197-198) This is relates to the argument because Helena is saying to Demetrius that if you love her and appreciate her Helena will not

takes her through interesting adventures with love. One can infer that Helena is hurt by love when she reacts to love in a foolish manner and remains skeptical about it even near the end of the play. The strong effects of love makes Helena a bit foolish and blind in the ways she reacts to it. In scene one of act one, the readers learn that Helena still loves Demetrius even though he loves her friend, Hermia, now. When Helena is first introduced, she demonstrates her jealousy and insecurities by

Demetrius and Helena are an example of this unrequited love. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is about falling in and out of love. The play is a grand tale involving falling in love and powerful magic. In rare cases, the love will be returned, and the couple will end up happy. Demetrius and Helena start out in the play with feelings being only one sided. At first, Demetrius wants to marry Hermia, but she wants Lysander. Later, during a scene in the play, it captures Helena following

kind, and respectable young lady while Helena views herself as a dog to be walked over and often mistakes their praise of her as mockery. Helena calculates her self-worth not positively on how her friends perceive her but negatively by a single biased opinion, as a result Helena is overly critical of herself and sees herself disgusting and ugly. Helena’s perception of herself is directly influenced by the fact that she is blindly in love with Demetrius, Helena lusts after him so passionately that

him to fall in love with Helena. Demetrius goes from loving Helena to hating her, and loving Hermia to loving Helena because of the influence of the love potion. Helena and Hermia used to have a platonic love, but because of Lysander and Demetrius loving Helena, not Hermia, they feel hatred towards each other. Puck 's confusion over who is Demetrius causes Lysander to fall in love with Helena. Oberon trying to fix Puck 's mistake causes Demetrius to love Helena, and Helena to be distressed. Using

takes her through interesting adventures with love. One can infer that Helena is hurt by love when she reacts to love in a foolish manner and remains skeptical about it even at the end of the play. The strong effects of love makes Helena a bit foolish and blind in the ways she reacts to it. In scene one of act one, the readers learn that Helena still loves Demetrius even though he loves her friend, Hermia, now. When Helena is first introduced, she demonstrates her jealousy and insecurities by

Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” shows through the relationship of Helena and Demetrius, a successful way of finding a partner is through self-neglect and self endangerment. To give more context,Helena slept with Demetrius, Demetrius moved on but Helena fell in love with him. Demetrius continued to ignore Helena. This caused Helena to fall in love with Demetrius More and more, but the more Demetrius neglected Helena the more she fell in love with him. Shakesphere’s writing conveys how disregarding

loves her but is loved by Helena, Hermia childhood friend. The rising actions is when Hermia is due to death because she refuses her fathers wish for her to marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander run off together and are followed by Demetrius and Helena. Puck a privy counsellor was ordered by Oberon to place love drops in Demetrius eyes but he makes a mistake and places the drops in both mens eyes. The climax of the story is when Demetrius and Lysander began to fight over Helena when before their fight

Shakespeare is a tale of love and enchantment that captivates the reader's attention. The four lovers, Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius, all embark on a journey through the woods where they find their happily ever after. However, these happy endings are not all naturally formed; Lysander and Hermia’s love is true, whereas Demetrius is enchanted to fall in love with Helena. The four lovers are wed to their correct partner, each couple achieving their desired outcome. The state in which the lovers

irony . An example of this is the magical flower was dropped into lysander's eyes . “ A sweet athenian lady is in love … put the flowers juice on his eyes make sure the next thing he sees is the lady.” (Shakespeare 2.1.240-250) See both Hermia and Helena didn't know that lysander fell in love with helena.While he was actually in love with hermia. Another example of dramatic irony is is when is when Titania the fairy queen the magical flower droplets get put into her eyes .”I’ll put the juice

Demetrius, not Lysander. Lysander and Hermia decide their best option is to run away and live their lives together, not worrying about the world around them. Hermia explains her plan to Helena who then tells Demetrius believing it would make him love her. Demetrius who loves Hermia follows them to wherever they go. Helena is obsessed with Demetrius and goes with him as well. Everything falls apart when a love potion is placed on Demetrius and Lysander’s eyes making them fall in love with the first person

between two characters, Hermia and Helena. However, their friendship love is tested throughout the play by their pursuit of true love which, in the end, ultimately prevails. The power of true love is evident in the play, the depiction of love reveals its true nature as in its pursuit it causes the characters to become irrational. True love in this play stems conflict from the troubles of romance by the actions of the lovers. The friendship between Hermia and Helena is at stake because of the romantic

while seemingly innocent enough, is the result of completely unnatural tampering. The fairies broke a moral boundary by faking the love of the four humans.     The story begins with both suitors, Lysander and Demetrius, loving only one woman, Hermia. Helena, another woman, is enamored with Demetrius, and cannot help but follow him everywhere he goes. When the love of Hermia and Lysander leads them into a magic

through interesting adventures with love. One can infer that love is hurtful by how Helena reacts to love in a foolish manner and remains skeptical about it even near the end of the play. The strong effects of love makes Helena a bit foolish and blind in the ways she reacts to it. In scene one of act one, the readers learn that Helena still loves Demetrius even though he loves her friend, Hermia, now. When Helena is first introduced, she demonstrates her jealousy and insecurities by asking Hermia

their lavish wedding. Lysander and Hermia are in love, and Demetrius is in love with a woman named Hermia. There is a girl named Helena, who is single. In the rising action, Hermia and Lysander are in love, but Egeus wants Hermia to be married to Demetrius instead, so he gets someone named Theseus to push for their marraige. Hermia and Lysander decide to run away, and Helena discoveres this. She was once together with Demetrius, but he left, however she is still in love with him. Because of this she

four day time period, captures the full extent of Shakespeare's intellectual imagination. This play consists of a large range of major characters, such as Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, Helena, Theseus, Egeus, Hippolyta, Puck, etc. After the elopement of two love struck individuals, Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena follow them into the forest and a confusion of who-loves-who ensues. In contracting this affair of love, we are also introduced to the relationship between Theseus and Hippolyta, who

mutual love with a different nobleman, Lysander.  In addition, Hermia 's childhood best friend and Demetrius were in love prior to his sights turning towards Hermia.  This crushed Helena, causing her to lose self-confidence, but still: she yearns for Demetrius 's love.  Hermia and Lysander 's love, Egeus 's harsh rule, and Helena 's unrequited love for Demetrius causes the lovers to leave Athens.   Various factors cause the lovers to run away together.  Hermia and Lysander 's love causes them to leave

Lysander-“The course of true love never did run smooth”- Line 136  This line represents one of the main themes in this act, Love. This line explains that love is hard and with true love many crazy things can happen. Helena-“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is wing’d cupid printed blind”- Line 238-239  This also adds to the theme love. This line basically says that love doesn’t make sense. Love is blind and that the mind, not the eyes, is what falls in love. Quince-“Marry