THE ILLUSTRATION OF A VERSE

HELENA'S SPEECH: THE ILLUSTRATION

Lo, she is one of this confederacy!
Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three
To fashion this false sport, in spite of me.
Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!
Have you conspired, have you with these contrived
To bait me with this foul derision?
Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,
When we have chid the hasty-footed time
For parting us,-- O, is it all forgot?
All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?
We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,
Have with our needles created both one flower,
Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,
Both warbling of one song, both in one key,
As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,
Had been incorporate. So we grow together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
Due but to one and crowned with one crest.
And will you rent our ancient love asunder,
To join with men in scorning your poor friend?
It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:
Our sex, as well as I, may chide (scold) you for it,
Though I alone do feel the injury

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

IS ALL THE COUNSEL THAT WE TWO HAVE SHARED, THE SISTER'S VOWS, 
THE HOURS WE HAVE SPENT, WHEN WE HAVE CHID THE HASTY FOOTED TIME.

ALL SCHOOL-DAYS' FRIENDSHIP, CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE?



LIKE A DOUBLE CHERRY, SEEMING PARTED, BUT YET AN UNION IN PARTION.


TWO LOVELY BERRIES MOULDED ON ONE STEM; SO, WITH TWO SEEMING BODIES, BUT ONE HEART.  



 
THOUGH I ALONE DO FEEL THE INJURY. 

The excerpt from William Shakespeare's play, A Midnight Summer's Dream, clearly shows his clever use of literary devices. 
One of the devices he uses a caesura, which is basically a break in the verse where one phrase ends and another begins. 
This can be represented by a coma or even a tick. It allows the actors to pause in between the lines, 
in order to emphasize the point to the audience. In that verse, Helena is trying to understand why Hermia 
and the rest are acting the way they are towards her. This use of literary devices further emphasizes her point; 
she is annoyed and sad at the same time, with no way to show it other than through her words. 
Shakespeare also uses an extended metaphor, when Helena compares her friendship with Hermia as that of two cherries,
meaning that their once very close friendship is now splitting aprt.
She uses this more than once, once again, trying to prove her point.


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