Who Is Helena In A Midsummer's Night Dream

In the play A Midsummer's night dream, William shakespeare expresses love,blind and Fight through some of the characters in the play. I'm going to be focusing on Helena and how she shows/tells us ( the audience ) about love. The basis of Helena is that she is in love with demetrius but demetrius doesn't want her. Then once demetrius finally wants her she doesn’t want him because he is under a love potion.
In the beginning of the play Helena is obsessed with Demetrius but he is in love with Hermia, buy Hermia is in love with Lysander. This is just a big wheel of loving people they can't have. As the story goes on hermia and lysander run off with each other Demetrius and Helena follow. Helena doesn’t care that he doesn't like her she just keeps on trying and won't stop until he finally gives in. As said in the book Helena and Hermia are just as beautiful as one another. So people don’t understand why he is trying to get Hermia when Helena is just as beautiful.
Helena obsessed over Demitrius emphasizes the impulse of love and its excesses. She is making a fool of herself by chasing after Demetrius, but she cannot because she is madly in love with
This point is emphasized when the two male characters ( lysander and Demetrius ) get poisoned. This wasn't just any ordinary poison it was more like a potion of love. The potion made them love the first creature they saw when they wake up from their slumber. Oberon and his servant puck were suppose to just put the love potion on Demetrius but they made a mistake and put it on lysander. When Lysander woke up, the first creature he saw was Helena. So as Oberon and Puck messed up they went back and tried again and they got it right this time and so Demetrius wakes up and sees Helena. As those to are “in love” with her she does not like it because she wants honesty out of a man and not just the trickery of the