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I can follow... what did she mean when she said this?


At the end she says something along those lines. I can follow, i will follow, something like that. What did she mean? She'd just told Menelaus she could never love him, but she goes with him anyway. Does that mean they got back together? And why not just get with him then instead of saying she could follow, that doesn't make sense.

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Helen is a fallen woman, and as she said she can never love Menelaus. She has no other place to go, and she doesn't have the authority the lead since she is considered a whore. That was my interpretation of the lines.

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Also, when Helen talked to Cassandra earlier, Cassandra said she saw Helen "following" and at the time, Helen didn't know what that meant. I guess she figured out what it meant at the end.. but personally, i thought it would mean she would follow Paris to heaven/her death.

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it means i can never love u because my heart belongs to paris but i will respect u, stand by u

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I think it meant that even though she couldn't love him, she would stand by him. Pretty much what she says really. I mean, what else was she to do? She had nowhere to go, pretty much everyone she knew was dead. She might not love him, but she could still follow him.

I don't think she really blamed him for anything so she was okay with following him.

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for a min. i thought it meant that she'll go snuff it to "follow" Paris (lol then I was thinking about Dante's Inferno, where he meets Paris with Helen in Hell..all suffering and in pain..it kinda made me laugh at the Irony bet. the movie and Dante's books..coz the movie clearly states the Paris is in Heaven..)

but then comes Menlaus and she goes back with him. But still i think that she physically and technically follow Menelaus. But really inside her she'd follow Paris in the end..

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