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\nIn A Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena uses wordplay and heraldry to symbolize the deep connection between herself and Hermia, likening them to \"two seeming bodies but one heart,\" indicating their close friendship. She references heraldry,...\nIn A Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena uses wordplay and heraldry to symbolize the deep connection between herself and Hermia, likening them to \"two seeming bodies but one heart,\" indicating their close friendship. She references heraldry, the system of emblems in Elizabethan society, comparing them to coats of arms that unite them within the same noble family. This imagery culminates in a clever pun where Helena equates their unified crest not just with a heart (emotionally) but with a \"hart\" (a male deer), a common emblem on coats of arms, demonstrating Shakespeare's ability to convey complex ideas through dense imagery and wordplay.\n
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2022
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word play, family, arms, lines, linguistics, etymology, a midsummer night's dream
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heraldry, shakespearean phrases, shakespeare studies, noble family, heart, emblems, helena, figures, coat, athena, explanation, ralph, line, hermia, coats, alluding, battle, feature, crest, shakespeare
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