HELENA
Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.
Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!
Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,
Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;
My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,
The rest I'd give to be to you translated.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art
You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.
Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!
Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,
Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;
My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,
The rest I'd give to be to you translated.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art
You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.
This is when we first meet Helena when she speaks about her heartbreak. Helena loves Demetrius even though he is to marry Hermia. She seems jealous in the fact that Hermia has both lovers and Demetrius does not love her back. Helena wishes she could be just as fair as Hermia. I found this part most insightful. We have all felt jealous and torn in love, one time or another. This is when you would do anything to be loved by the one you love, although he is in love with another women.
I did find it interserting on how Helena feels. But, as A Midsummer Night's Dream continues on Helena tries to fight aganist the love of Demetrius. I feel that Helena just likes to chase Demetrius.
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