Phaedra

Quick CA of Phaedra from Hippolytus by Euripides. Hopefully should help us understand her motives a bit better!

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  • Created by: Leah A
  • Created on: 04-06-14 09:32

Personality

Role

  • Chaste
  • Self pitiful
  • Irrational
  • Juvenile
  • Phaedra is loyal to her husband Theseus. We see this by her preference to be dead than to cheat on him. She commits suicide rather than incest and adultery, which shows she was a desirable woman.
  • Phaedra moans. A lot. She wails about how unlucky she is to be a female, and how unfortunate she is. However, she is only around 14-15, and to have such a horrible curse placed on her would provoke such moaning from a teenage girl.
  • Was it really necessary to blame Hippolytus so harshly for something Aphrodite (Cypris) had done? Phaedra reacts as though it is Hippolytus' doing, and accuses him of ****, in spite of him being extremely 'pure'.

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