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* ValuesResonance: Though Helena's BedTrick described above is uncomfortable to contemporary audiences, she's also a proactive heroine who, unlike characters like Portia and Rosalind, ''doesn't'' disguise herself as a man to take a lead role in the story. Helena is also a skilled doctor and chemist, given that she uses a HealingHerb to cure the King's illness, which has stumped the best medical minds in the realm--this was at a time when the very idea of a woman practicing medicine was an impossibility.
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* ValuesResonance: Though Helena's BedTrick described above is uncomfortable to contemporary audiences, she's also a proactive heroine who, unlike characters like Portia and Rosalind, ''doesn't'' disguise herself as a man to take a lead role in the story. Helena is also a skilled doctor and chemist, given that she uses a HealingHerb to cure the King's illness, which has stumped the best medical minds in the realm--this was at a time when the very idea of a woman practicing medicine was an impossibility. And, while she can be portrayed as being unhealthily fixated on Bertram, all the other characters acknowledge that his treatment of her is utterly awful.
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!!As the play is OlderThanSteam and most twists in Shakespeare's plots are now [[ItWasHisSled widely known]], all spoilers on this page are [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked]].
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** Since Helena's determined affection for a total loser with no redeeming qualities who hates her guts is so inexplicable, there's also some debate on whether to portray her as the nice, sensible if lovestruck girl she mostly seems to be, or as some kind of slightly unhinged LoveFreak or {{Yandere}}. Thinking about it, Helena's fixation on him may have some [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond psychological]] [[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou reasons]].
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** Since Helena's determined affection for a total loser with no redeeming qualities who hates her guts is so inexplicable, there's also some debate on whether to portray her as the nice, sensible if lovestruck girl she mostly seems to be, or as some kind of slightly unhinged LoveFreak or {{Yandere}}. Thinking about it, Helena's fixation on him may have some [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond psychological]] [[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou reasons]]. Other productions instead settle on making her a LoveMartyr who's entirely conscious of Bertram's horrible behavior, but also self-aware enough to know that she'll never love anyone else as much as him; as such, her attempts to win him over are also attempts to correct his flaws and help him mature.
