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Examples Of Demetrius In A Midsummer Night's Dream
In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena foreshadows that “love is blind” through her and Demetrius’s contrasting views of each other. An example of that would be when they’re in the forest, Demetrius cannot see how kind Helena is to him. Even when he responds to her with hateful words, yet she replies by saying, “I am your spaniel. And, Demetrius,/ The more you beat me, I will fawn on you” (2.1.203-204). First of all, this quote shows how Demetrius is so “blind” that he is unable to see how good, affectionate and kind at heart Helena is, even when he is very impolite and insulting towards her. Even so, Demetrius is about to leave Helena in the woods alone, she does not realize how repelled he is by her even when he declares, “ Or if
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