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| Other Famous Damsels in Distress | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| There are many women in literature and the arts who are known best by their unrequited love. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Step 1) Click here to hear another woman's tale, Eponine's, of unrequited love made famous by the broadway musical Les Miserables which is adapted from the story by Victor Hugo. *No sound? Want to read along with the music? No problem!... Take a look at the lyrics! Step 2)Compare and contrast Helena's struggle to that of Eponine using the lyrics to "On My Own" and Helena's monologue in I, i. |
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| Eponine on her own | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Helena lamenting over Demetrius | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3) After comparing and contrasting the two women and what you can tell from Eponines soliloquy, how are these two women portrayed similarly or contrastingly? ~Think about what difference it makes that these are both women. |
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