Hippolytus
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- Created on: 16-04-17 19:58
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- Hippolytus
- Themes
- Piety
- Lack of piety towards Aphrodite, excessive towards Artemis.
- Aphrodite: "says I am the vilest of the Gods... holding her the greatest of the gods."
- Lack of piety towards Aphrodite, excessive towards Artemis.
- Revenge
- Theseus' revenge of Hippolytus' supposed **** of Phaedra.
- Phaedra's suicide note framing Hippolytus after he shamed her.
- Aphrodite's plot to kill Hippolytus because he doesn't give her the proper honours.
- Power of the Gods
- Phaedra under Eros' spell. Theseus fated to use his 3 wishes.
- Artemis: "For Cypris wished this to happen to satisfy her passion."
- Phaedra under Eros' spell. Theseus fated to use his 3 wishes.
- Lust and Chastity
- Hippolytus values his purity so much that he resent's Aphrodite; leads to his death. Phaedra's lust equally destructive.
- Hippolytus: "Since I am pure, I greet her from a distance."
- Hippolytus values his purity so much that he resent's Aphrodite; leads to his death. Phaedra's lust equally destructive.
- Silence
- Hippolytus is forced in to silence because of his oath to the Nurse, Phaedra forced by shame, Nurse breaks silence.
- Nurse: " do not dishonour your oath."
- Hippolytus keeps his oath of silence, and doesn't take up the Nurse's offer.
- Nurse: " do not dishonour your oath."
- Hippolytus is forced in to silence because of his oath to the Nurse, Phaedra forced by shame, Nurse breaks silence.
- Betrayal
- Phaedra's lust breaks marriage vows, Nurse breaks vow of silence, Phaedra sets Hippolytus up, Theseus thinks he has betrayed him.
- Phaedra (to the Nurse): "Vilest of women, you who destroyed your friends, what have you done to me!"
- Hippolytus keeps his oath of silence, and doesn't take up the Nurse's offer.
- Phaedra's lust breaks marriage vows, Nurse breaks vow of silence, Phaedra sets Hippolytus up, Theseus thinks he has betrayed him.
- Piety
- Comparison
- Hippolytus: "If you wanted to propagate the human race, you should not have brought this about through women."
- In Medea, Jason says: "The human race should produce children from some other source"
- In Antigone, Creon quickly sentence Antogone to death but then realises he was wrong and is full of remorse. Like Theseus killing Hippolytus.
- Oedipus shares the theme of responsibility and lack f free will, he is fated to d what he does just like Phaedra and Theseus.
- In Hippolytus there is a theme of silence as Hippolytus won't break his oath, however, in Oedipus there is a theme of everything being out in public.
- Creon: "If you want my report in the presence of these people..I'm ready now, or we might go inside."
- Hippolytus: "If you wanted to propagate the human race, you should not have brought this about through women."
- The Chorus
- They are Hippolytus' servants (HS) and Women of Trozen (WoT).
- Parados: (WoT)- Talk about and wonder source of Phaedra's illness.
- Stasimon !: myths showing Eros' and Aphrodite's power. (WoT)
- Stasimon 2: Foreshadow the death of Phaedra and talk of fleeing (WoT).
- Stasimon 3: grieve Hippolytus' change of fortune, death and talk of his hunting skills. ( WoT and HS).
- The Plot
- Prologue- Aphrodite speaks telling of Hippolytus' disrespect and her plans from revenge. Servant warns Hippolytus to respect all gods.
- "for his offences against me I shall in the course of this day take revenge on Hippolytus."
- Episode 1- The nurse asks Phaedra what is making her ill, tills her, nurse suggests anti-love potion.
- Phaedra: " My hands are pure, but a pollution stains my mind."
- Episode 2- The nurse tells Hippolytus of Phaedra's lust for him, he is disgusted but respects his oath.
- Phaedra: "Yes, and it is clear- her calls her ' bawd of viciousness', 'betrayer of her master's bed."
- Episode 3- Phaedra's suicide revealed, Theseus finds suicide note, wishes for Poseidon to kill Hippolytus.
- Theseus: " She is dead. Do you think that this will save you? Vilest of men, it is this more than anything else that convicts you."
- Exodus- Hippolytus' fatal injury announced, he is brought to Theseus, Artemis come to tell Theseus the truth.
- Artemis: "you have sacrilegiously killed your son, by the lying words of your wife persuaded t believe what was not visible?"
- Prologue- Aphrodite speaks telling of Hippolytus' disrespect and her plans from revenge. Servant warns Hippolytus to respect all gods.
- Characters
- Theseus- King of Athens, in voluntary exile living in Trozen with his wife Phaedra. Hippolytus' father.
- Phaedra-Wife of Theseus and Queen of Athens.
- Wife of Theseus and Queen of Athens. Cursed by Aphrodite to lust for Hippolytus, frames him for **** and commits suicide to preserve her honour.
- Hippolytus- Illegitimate son of Theseus and Amazonian Hippolyta. worships Artemis but not Aphrodite.
- Told by the nurse of Phaedra's feelings, gets accused of **** in Phaedra's suicide note and is the exiled and killed by Theseus.
- Themes
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