All's Well That Ends Well | Parolles (Character Analysis)
Parolles is Bertram's friend and a hanger-on at court who insults Helena, offends Lafew, encourages the count to flee from his marriage, and is finally tricked into revealing his true colors when Bertram and two French lords capture him and pretend to be enemy soldiers. He is thus a kind of scapegoat and suffers exclusion from the court, but only temporarily; by the end of the play, Lafew has promised not to let him starve.
Even before his downfall, many of the other characters in the play recognize Parolles as a threat to the moral order of society. Helena says that she speaks to...
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