Helena Characterization For Act 2, Scene 2

In act 2, scene 2, of A Midsummer Night's dream, Helena continues to be the same one dimensional character as before. She does not realize that Demetrius will never love her and she still continues to put herself down in order to give her a reason as to why Demetrius chose Hermia over her.
In this scene demetrius directly tells Helena to leave him alone and to stop chasing him but yet she does not. This again proves how obsessed she is and how she will do anything just to be in his presence. The only reason she would allow herself to be verbally abused by Demetrius so much is because she feels she needs to spend as much time as possible with him. This also shows how little self confidence she has because these remarks that he makes to her would hurt any other person, however, she is not fazed by these comments. She brushes them off as if they were the norm, which they are.
In this scene we also get direct evidence of how she views herself. She calls herself as ugly as a bear because beasts that meet her turn around and run away. We already know that this is not true. She is just as beautiful as Hermia, but because her self confidence is so low, she views herself as ugly as a bear. As I've said before, she says this not only because she has low self confidence, but also because it gives her a reason to think that Demetrius chose Hermia for a superficial reason. We see this when she says that because of her looks, it is impossible to rival Hermia in the chase for Demetrius. This again proves that Helena can not accept the fact that Demetrius chose Hermia because she was the better person, not just the most beautiful.
Overall, Helena does not change at all in this scene. Instead this scene shows how lowly she thinks of herself in greater detail. In any messed up love story there always seems to be the crazy obsessed girl who lusts after the man she can never have, and in this story, Helena is that girl.