"It is not night"ImageryAct 2,Scene 1Lines 214-226An explanation of the light/dark imagery in Act 2, Scene 1 of myShakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Demetrius You do impeach your modesty too much, To leave the city and commit yourself Into the hands of one that loves you not, To trust the opportunity of night And the ill counsel of a desert place With the rich worth of your virginity. Helena Your virtue is my privilege, for that It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you, in my respect, are all the world. Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me? Demetrius’ shining virtue will protect Helena from the darkness.
