Helena cries out to Demetrius not to abandon her "darkling", or in the dark (Act II, Scene 2, 85). ... Lysander declares "Not Hermia, but Helena I love" (Act II, Scene 2, 112) and Demetrius showers Helena with words of adoration in Act III, Scene 2, Lines 137-144. ... Helena claims that real love has little to do with the eyes and that the gaze of the mind gives love its true shape, but even in making this assertion Helena is forced to rely on sight imagery: "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,/ And therefore is winged Cupid blind" (Act I, Scene 1, 234-235). Helena uses sight ...

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Lysander and Demetrius, Helena and Hermia, each of them switches roles and becomes the other person. ... The nature of this interchangeability is evidenced in Act Three and repeated in Act Four, as Helena says to Hermia: "We, Hermia, like two artificial gods / Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate. ... After all, Lysander and Demetrius have been able to shift their love the Helena without noticing any difference whatsoever. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

On the other hand, Helena is in love with Demetrius. ... He awakes to Helena, who now has two men in love with her. ... Helena and Hermia argue because Helena thinks that Hermia is in on the men's "joke." ... Hermia and Helena were once intimate friends, but Helena is suspicious of Hermia's involvement in the men's "joke." ... The submissive nature of women enables Hermia and Helena to bear their lover's abuse. ...

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Similarity "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet" both show how powerful love can be. Love is a very serious matter during the era Shakespeare existed. You can tell this by, not only seeing that the root of both these plays is falling in love, but also by some of the comments the ch...

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During Elizabethan times, 1550-1625, a great writer's explosive way of writing brought forth a new life to poetry. This outstanding poet, author and playwright, was William Shakespeare. These highly subjective sonnets are wonderful tales full of love, deception, and betrayal. Although it is presumable that Shakespeare did write these sonnets about his own life, some experts are still puzzled by the possibility of the poetry being based in fiction. However, if one man can so exquisitely write fictional stories about love and still include a controversial issue in them, then where do we...

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First and foremost, the two stories are about star crossed lovers, one with a single pair, being Romeo and Juliet, and the other with two pairs, Lysander and Hermia, and then Demetrius and Helena, though Demetrius sought after Hermia love until the love spell with put upon him. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shakespeare displays love and freedom by, "O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! ... With the freedom of emotion and love the forest often had many scenes of love and action such as the one Demetrius says to Helena. ...

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To be or not to be Shakespeare? In my many years of schooling, I have had to write many stories, papers, and essays. One of the hardest things about writing one of these works is coming up with a topic. When you write, you want to be able to convey the true meaning of your work very clearly an...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School