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* [[Engagement Challenge]]: Well, they're already married, but it still counts. |
* [[Engagement Challenge]]: Well, they're already married, but it still counts. |
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* [[Here We Go Again]]: At the end of the play, the King of France offers Diana her choice of husband as a reward for helping Helena. |
* [[Here We Go Again]]: At the end of the play, the King of France offers Diana her choice of husband as a reward for helping Helena. |
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* [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]]: If Bertram's final line is sincere, Helena's |
* [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]]: If Bertram's final line is sincere, Helena's trickery—in other words, proof that she can be as cunning and devious as himself—leads to him respecting and loving her. |
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* [[Jerkass]]: Bertram. At first, you can understand why he might be angry about the arranged marriage to Helena. He came to court believing that he would finally be able to prove his manhood and get out of his father's shadow, and instead the King bars him from going to war and gives him away as a prize to one of his mother's servants. But he ends up handling the situation very childishly (proving that he's not as grown up as he would like to think he is), and he cruelly takes out his anger on the good-natured Helena, even though it was the King who forced the marriage. And sending your wife a letter ''bragging'' about leaving her, then trying to sleep with another woman, is pretty low. |
* [[Jerkass]]: Bertram. At first, you can understand why he might be angry about the arranged marriage to Helena. He came to court believing that he would finally be able to prove his manhood and get out of his father's shadow, and instead the King bars him from going to war and gives him away as a prize to one of his mother's servants. But he ends up handling the situation very childishly (proving that he's not as grown up as he would like to think he is), and he cruelly takes out his anger on the good-natured Helena, even though it was the King who forced the marriage. And sending your wife a letter ''bragging'' about leaving her, then trying to sleep with another woman, is pretty low. |
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** Notably, this is ''not'' a case of [[Values Dissonance]] |
** Notably, this is ''not'' a case of [[Values Dissonance]]—even ''the other characters in the play'', including the king, point out that he's being a complete tool. |
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* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: Parolles. |
* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: Parolles. |
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* [[Poisonous Friend]]: Adaptations that try to take the plot seriously play up Parolles as this in an attempt to make Bertram less of a [[Jerkass]]. |
* [[Poisonous Friend]]: Adaptations that try to take the plot seriously play up Parolles as this in an attempt to make Bertram less of a [[Jerkass]]. |
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