![]() ![]() He just doesn’t know if she went willingly or forcefully. Upon returning home from his grandfather’s funeral, he finds his palace ransacked and his wife gone. Meanwhile, Menelaos is forced to leave his kingdom and leave Helen to entertain the guests. His flattery makes her alive again, and she finds herself liking the attention. Helen is enchanted by the handsome Prince Paris of Troy. When Menelaos welcomes friendship between two kingdoms-his and the one of Troy-it changes everything. Without much conversation between them, she hardly knows her husband, but now that she’s pregnant, he shows a lot of tenderness and she hopes it’s a new beginning for them. ![]() As much as she appreciates her husband’s gentleness, she is frustrated with him not expressing his feelings. Helen, legendary for her beauty, gets betrothed to Menelaos, Agamemnon’s brother. All this results in a feeling of betrayal, and fear she will likely never see her family again, since a married women does not travel and is the steward of her husband’s household. ![]()
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