In the play, A Midsummer night’s dream by William Shakespeare himself presents Helena as a confused woman. Helena visualises herself being ridiculed by two men. Those two men are Lysander and Demetrius. She also recognises the source of the ridiculeness to be teasing of her beauty and emotions. She realise that Hermia has persuaded both Lysander and Demetrius to tease her by using her beauty to convince them. She believes that Hermia now hates her. This humungous tangle is caused by a fairy named as Puck. He is a very mischievous fairy and will do anything of his master’s command. His master’s name is Oberon; he is the King of the fairies in the woods. This dramatic tangle produces a glimpse of calamity and a narrow window of humour of Helena’s confusion. Now we will
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Helena responds to Lysander’s and Demetrius’ with arrogance and anger. An example of the phrases that she uses are ‘Never did mockers waste more idle breath ‘this phrase means ‘ Your just wasting your breath trying to convince me ‘. The impression that the reader gets is that Helena is furious of Lysander and Demetrius’ foul behaviour towards her. She feels very uncomfortable with both Lysander and Demetrius tailing along her. From Helena’s conduct I can confirm that Helena is bursting with irritation. Before this tangle had situated, Helena longed for Demetrius’ hart. Now that she has it, she still doesn’t feel like it is true love.
Helena feels that Hermia is the one behind all of this. She says ‘Injurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid, Have you conspired, have you with these continued to bait me, with this foul derision’. This literally converts to ‘Hermia, you most ungrateful maid, you are a hurtful maid, have you joined with Lysander and
Helena responds to Lysander’s and Demetrius’ with arrogance and anger. An example of the phrases that she uses are ‘Never did mockers waste more idle breath ‘this phrase means ‘ Your just wasting your breath trying to convince me ‘. The impression that the reader gets is that Helena is furious of Lysander and Demetrius’ foul behaviour towards her. She feels very uncomfortable with both Lysander and Demetrius tailing along her. From Helena’s conduct I can confirm that Helena is bursting with irritation. Before this tangle had situated, Helena longed for Demetrius’ hart. Now that she has it, she still doesn’t feel like it is true love.
Helena feels that Hermia is the one behind all of this. She says ‘Injurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid, Have you conspired, have you with these continued to bait me, with this foul derision’. This literally converts to ‘Hermia, you most ungrateful maid, you are a hurtful maid, have you joined with Lysander and