Helena - it feels like a dream?

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Lucy Thomson

Helena

I still can’t believe it, it feels like a dream, a fairytale dream that has just come true. Here I am a wife to Demetrius who just four days ago loathed and despised me but now adores and loves me.

A magical dream I had whilst I was in the woods that Demetrius and Lysander woke and both fell in love with me and not Hermia who Lysander was to marry and who Demetrius was in love with. I felt confused in their sudden change of affection as I believed they both hated the sight of me yet both called me Goddess, nymph, perfect, divine. Something bewitching happened that night, something amazing.

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In my desperation to win Demtrius heart I told him of Hermia and Lysander’s plan to escape Athens and Athenian law to run away together. Demetrius who did not want to lose Hermia went to the woods and so I followed him. He told me of his love for Hermia and not for me he ignored me and left me alone deep in the woods and continued his pursuit for them.

I loved Demetrius and was sick when I didn’t look upon him it was as I was speaking about my feelings for him and how I didn’t compare to ...

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