A Midsummer Night's Dream

Helena

what does this character's appearance (i.e. manner of dress) tell us about him/her?

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Helena is seen as tall, slim with fair skin. At one point Hermia accuses Helena of using her height to steal Lysander away from her:

‘Puppet!’ why so? Ay, that way goes the game.

Now I perceive that she hath made compare(300)

Between our statures; she hath urged her height;

And with her personage, her tall personage,

Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.

And are you grown so high in his esteem

Because I am so dwarfish and so low?

Helena is seen as tall, slim with fair skin. At one point Hermia accuses Helena of using her height to steal Lysander away from her:

‘Puppet!’ why so? Ay, that way goes the game.

Now I perceive that she hath made compare(300)

Between our statures; she hath urged her height;

And with her personage, her tall personage,

Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.

And are you grown so high in his esteem

Because I am so dwarfish and so low?