WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speaker is
The speaker in the extract is Helena. This is evident from the context of the extract where the speaker talks about Demetrius' oaths of love to her before he fell in love with Hermia. In the play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Helena is the one who is in love with Demetrius and is hurt by his love for Hermia.
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