Phaedra Love For Hippolytus

In Act two, scene five there are powerful revelations detected in this portion. Phaedra is ultimately on a quest to declare her immense love for Hippolytus at all cost. She has this insatiable desire to protest how she feels because she can no longer conceal it. The scene consists of intense emotions and Racine’s writing style conveyed in this scene is to demonstrate how erratic and unstable Phaedra’s emotion has become. This is the scene in where Phaedra can no longer control her emotions. Her emotions become too overpowering. She fantasizes her love for Hippolytus. She is beyond desperate. She transitions from being moderately stable to extremely unstable. Her passion becomes too monstrous turning her emotionally ill and physically. In the scene Racine, capitalizes on Phaedra’s emotions by using strong word choice, metaphor, imagery, and past tenses by using these powerful techniques he can convey Phaedra’s emotions successfully.

There is powerful and strong word choice and metaphors that Racine inserts in various places of the excerpt. One strong word that Phaedra uses is “burn.” The word “burn” operates in the context of showing great passion and love for Hippolytus. There is this undying flame that has never gone out for Hippolytus. The word “burn” serves as a great conduit in her channeling her passion and emotions to Hippolytus. She has this un-quenching desire to make love with Hippolytus. The word “starve,” used in this context, is an indication that she is missing an ultimate piece in her life and that is Hippolytus. She longs for Hippolytus; She is deficient and lacking something and without Hippolytus, she will grow severely weak emotionally and physically. She will die if she cannot get the love, affection, and appr...

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...comes an ultimate tragedy because Hippolytus rejects her love for him. Her passion becomes too monstrous turning her ill emotionally and physically. She has become a slave to her emotions. She becomes an emotional wreck seeking to take her own life. But the love that Phaedra feels for Hippolytus is too immense that her emotions pulsate through her veins like a river. For love is indeed destructive and this is what Oenone admonishes to Phaedra. There is a sense of isolation that comes with the declaration because she knows that what she is doing very atrocious. She is in a constant battle with love and sin. Phaedra vows to take this chance and in the end she committed suicide from this tragedy. Phaedra’s ultimate quest to confess her love for Hippolytus in the event, she uses strong word choice, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism to channel and convey her emotions.