课程学习 · 2022年11月23日

仲夏夜之梦假如我是Helena给Nedar写信

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哈姆雷特的仲夏夜之梦,假如我是Helena,给Nedar(是helena的父母)写信,告诉他发生了什么,并说明对爱情的看法,选修课作业,好不容易写的。
Suppose you are Helena in William Shakespeare’s comedy "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". Write a letter of 1000 words to your parent Nedar, recounting what has happened to you and telling about your reflections on love.

Dear my parents Nedar,

How’s it going? I hope all is well. Recently it happens a lot. I, your daughter Helena, had been through an incredible experience like a dream and I gained my beloved Demetrius finally. I’m writing to tell you what had happened to me and express my reflections towards love.

From the beginning, I admired Demetrius for his intelligence. Before meeting Hermia, Demetrius was in love with me, saying he was mine. But after meeting Hermia, Demetrius fell deeply in love with her. Her beauty, her soft voice, her shinning eyes, all of which seemed to have a magic power over Demetrius’ heart. The more I loved him, the more he hated me, while the more she hated him, the closer he became to her. https://www.yedi.online From then on, I fell into unrequited love and fruitless pursuit.

Hermia was my best friend growing up. We used to be very friendly, spending our innocent childhood together. Her father arranged for him to marry Demetrius, but she fell in love with Lysander instead. She chose to elope with Lysander on a moonlit night. I learned the news, and determined to sacrifice friendship for love, so I told Demetrius of Hermia’s elopement with Lysander.

I followed Demetrius into the forest. Demetrius yelled at me and told me to leave, threatening to kill me or else. He would leave me in the dark forest, but I would follow him. I would rather die at the hands of my beloved Demetrius, following him all the time, never being afraid.

Suddenly I saw Lysander lying asleep on the ground. I was afraid that he was injured or dead, so I woke him up. But when Lysander woke up, he began to say love to me, turning Hermia into nothing. He said that his reason had made him love me more. He called me a dove, and Hermia a raven. Is it not mocking and insulting me? Lysander persisted in proclaiming his love for me, while I was bored and disgusted by the "banter." Then Demetrius woke up, shouting out to me, "Goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!" He started showing me crazy love, too.

Actually, they all love Hermia, not me, but they praise me crazily. Isn’t that a weird thing to do? They were all mocking me, making fun of me! They had me cornered with sneers, just looking for a laugh. Hermia was in cahoots with them. They set up this scene to make fun of me. They winked and made jokes and made me the butt of jokes. How annoying! They continued to perform. Hermia called me cheater and a thief of love, while I am quiet and timid, and have no ability to quarrel. I was tired of scolding with Hermia and didn’t want to be friends with this hateful woman any more. Demetrius and Lysander began to fight fiercely to get me. I’m so tired of these people! I went to sleep sadly, waiting the sun to rise. I hoped to spend this long night quickly and return to Athens at once.

To my surprise, when I woke up, however, I found Lysander had fallen in love with Hermia again, and Demetrius loved me. What a happy ending! Maybe that’s what love is, and that’s what it’s supposed to be. We professed our love at Theseus and chose to marry. It just felt so unreal to me. I had found Demetrius like a jewel, mine own and not mine own. I really didn’t know if it was real or not, and whether I was really awake. Love comes too suddenly.

These are what happened to me. I’ll talk about my reflections on love below.

Firstly, I believe that love should be faithful. I adore Demetrius’s wit, so I ignore all the baseness of him and deeply fascinated by him. I feel that all the baseness of weakness becomes insignificant in love, but becomes real and nice. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the heart. Love is very pure, even if Demetrius does not love me or even beat me, it will only make me love him more.
Secondly, in my eyes, love is above everything, even if using my life for exchange is worth it. I’d love to pay everything to be Hermia in order to be loved by Demetrius. In my eyes, Demetrius is my whole world. In the forest, Demetrius said he would kill me if I continued to follow him, but I insisted on following him anyway, because I’d rather to die at the hands of the one I loved by my heart to make hell turn into a heavenly palace. In my eyes, love is heaven.
Thirdly, love is persistent and brave. I insist on pursuing a person who does not love me. Not I am stupid, but with deep love and infatuated. I understand that in today’s world, as a woman, I should be assigned by my parents and courted by a man, not court a man. Yet I defy conventional wisdom for love and hope that my dear parents, Nedar, could understand me. At this point, I believe you will agree to my choice, to my beloved Demetrius.
Fourthly, there are many setbacks, sneers, and insults in the course of love, whether from those I love or those I hate. I suffer a lot that I should not have born, but for the sake of love, I think silently enduring is also worth it.
Finally, I also believe that love is such a complicated, magical, and inexplicable thing. The one that I can’t get may suddenly become the one who loves me deeply only after waking up. I don’t know what happened, maybe this is the magic of love. However, all I could do for love is to always love my favorite Demetrius deeply. Never change, there is hope.

These are the amazing experience I’ve had and my thoughts about love. Thank you for what you’ve given me and I hope my dear parents could understand me.

Yours sincerely,
Daughter Helena