Hermia And Helena In A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare

CHARACTER TRAIT 1 PARAGRAPH
Whatever Helena sees or hears always has something to do with herself in her eyes, that’s how the world is like a mirror to her. Helena proves herself to be self absorbed more than once throughout the play. During her soliliquy; in act one, scene one; Helena explains what she plans to do with the new information that has come to light. This information being that Hermia and Lysander were going to run away together. Her plan is to “...go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight” (1.i 246). Meaning, she was going to tell Demetrius that Hermia and Lysander were fleeing Athens. She hopes that some how Demetrius will chase after them in the woods. When he finally catches them he’d either be so heartbroken that he’s turn to Helena;
Helena and Hermia’s relationship is a key part of the play and important to forming Helena’s character. Hermia and Helena are having a heated disscussion about Demetrius. Helena wants him to love her and Hermia wants him to leave her alone. In hopes of making Helena feel better she tells her something very important to her, a very big secret. Hermia explains to Helena, “Lysander and myself will fly this place” (1.i 203). Hermia was trying to be a good friend to Helena. She trusted her with her biggest secret, a secret that could determine the rest of her life. Helena understands how important it is to Hermia, but she chooses to tell Demetrius of these plans anyways. She doesn’t care about Hermia the same way Hermia does her. A good symbol to describe this relationship would be a knife. A knife is a good symbol for this because Helena is stabbing Hermia in the back, knowingly. She is getting Hermia to trust her then as soon as she gets what she needs she uses it against Hermia. She stabs her right in the back without any hesitation. A knife is a good symbol to use for Helena and Hermia’s relationship, which is a very important