1. Character Analysis Project A midsummer night's dream
By: Kimberly Juarez and Jade Jones

2. Responsibilities
Kimberly: Thoughts(Want,Feeling), Effects(Instigating), Actions(body)
Jade: Thoughts(thinking), Effects(Reacting/infer voice), Costume and props
Both: Speech/compared thoughts

3. Helena character analysis
Opening Statement
Helena character analysis
Envious
Blinded by love
Validation from Hermia
Conflicted/ skeptical
placate

4. When we first meet the character...
“Call you me fair? That ‘fair” again unsay. Demetrius loves you fair: O happy fair! Your eyes are lode-stars, and your tongue’s sweet air More tunable than lark to shepherd’s ear When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear. Sickness is catching: O, were favour so! Your words 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 be being bated, The rest I’d give to be to your translated. O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius’ heart.”
Hermia and Lysander solidify plans of running away and Helena comes in envious of Hermia’s beauty.
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5. When we first meet the character…(cont.)
L1. Are your calling me beautiful? Don’t say that.
L2. Demetrius actually sees something in you.
L3. Your have beautiful eyes and a sweet toned voice.
L4. Your beauty is captivating.
L5. Everything that you do makes him fall in love and that is what I will do.
L6. Even with Demetrius out of the equation, I would give a lot to be like you .
L7. Show me your ways in how you make Demetrius love you.

6. When we first meet the character…(cont.)
Want:Validation
Thinking:What is it about Hermia?
Feeling:Envious/Jealous

7. Helena’s original subtext
Envious
ressurance
Desperate
unrequited love
Passionate
self assured

8. Continued Reacting:Demetrius’s love for Hermia
Instigating: Helena wants Hermia’s confession of her beauty. Validation
Infer voice: Admiring, Humble
Stress words:O’,love,Fair,lode-stars, more, sickness, ear, voice, tongue, sweet, mine, give, you

9. Actions and Looks Body language: gestures toward hermia
Brief eye contact
medium voice ( high to lower)
head tilted slightly so side downward
furrowed eyebrows

10. Continued Actions and looks
slightly widened eyes
lips pursed
physically composed
Props:
Compact mirror

11. first concluding statement
Jealousy to envy
Accusatory
Low self-esteem
self-worth
self-dignity

12. Further on in the play, the character evolves...
Helena shifts from envious to conflicted
She might not want to believe the mockery but she is no longer completely blinded by love.

13. Textual evidence
O spite! O hell! I see, you are all bent To set against me for your merriment. If you were civil, and knew courtesy, You would not do me thus much injury. Can you not hate me, as I know you do, But you must join in souls to mock me too? If you were men, as men you are in show, You would not use a gentle lady so: To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts, When I am sure you hate me with your hearts. You both are rivals, and love Hermia: And now both rivals to mock Helena. A trim exploit, a manly enterprise, To conjure tears up in a poor maid’s eyes With your derision! None of noble sort Would so offend a virgin, and extort A poor soul’s patience, all to make you sport.

14. Paraphrase L1. I see you are all doing this for your own fun
L2. If you were both noble you wouldn't hurt me like this.
L3. You not only hate me but you act on that hate by making fun of me.
L4. You are not real men and if you were, you wouldn’t do this to any woman.
L5. The worst is the fact that you give me compliments when I know you hate me.
L5. You two hate each other and love Hermia and now you’re doing the same to me as a joke.
L6. A smart plan, to bring about tears in my eyes for your own amusement.
L7. No good man would ever play a girl like that, all for entertainment.

15. Thoughts Want: Demetrius change of heart to be real
Thinking: unreal, cruel joke
Feelings: Conflicted, unsure, hopeful, upset, defeated

16. Continued Reacting: Demetrius and Lysander’s Professions of love
Instigating: logical explanation, show that they love her.
Infer Voice: distrustful, disbelief, upset, confliction
Stress words: If, Men, Now, Swear, My, Love, Derision, Souls, Merriment

17. Actions and looks Body Language: Expressive hand gestures toward
Demetrius and Lysander.
Hands on head at the beginning
as she comes to a realization.
Tapping head as if to say “How did
I just realize this?”

18. Concluding statement part 2
Envious to conflicted
Expectations: Choose Demetrius and ignore Lysander

19. Finally, the character winds up
Conflicted to determined
Textual Evidence:
Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me. I evermore did love you, Hermia, Did ever keep your counsels, never wronged you; Save that, in love unto Demetrius, I told him of your stealth unto this wood. He followed you; for love, I followed him. But he hath chid me hence, and threatened me To strike me, spurn me; nay, to kill me too. And now, so you will let me quiet go, You see how simple and how fond I am

20. Brief summary/Paraphrase
Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena. Helena is convincing Hermia that she has nothing to do with this and that she wants to move on.
L1. Dear friend, don’t be mad at me.
L2. I still love your and have never done you wrong.
L3. The only time was when I told Demetrius of your plan to run away with Lysander.
L4. He went after your and I after him. And he reprimanded me and threatened me.
L5. I accept the wrong I have caused and wish to move past this and I hope your know that my apology is sincere.

21. Thoughts Want: placate Hermia Thinking: leave the situation
Feeling: persuasive, determined

22. Effects Reacting: Helena’s blame Instigating: Hermia to calm down
infer voice: soothing, submissive,logical
Stressed words: Did, Not, Bitter, Love, Chid, Threatened, Folly, Let me

23. Actions and looks Body Language: Direct eye contact upraised eyebrows
hand motions slightly in front
stance near to demetrius and farthest from Hermia
Gestures towards surrounding

24. Final Concluding Statement
Beginning subtext: Middle subtext: Final Subtext:
Envious
Conflicted
Determined

25. Conclusion continued -less attention - defining love -entertainment
-new boundaries
-moralities of love

26. 80s Shakespeare
80s shakespeare