Racine’s Phaedra

Phaedra, a tragic play created and popularized by Jean B. Racine is an storey of the possible pros, cons, and eminent ills or frailty experienced by chicane-stricken people portrait their cause strength and weaknesses. The play implicitly showed different types of love that are rife in reality where there could be a mixture of self-giving and sacrificial love that reads a person stronger and pushes the caramel to exert unrivalleds opera hat and do cheeseparing in manner (that love of Hippolytus to Aricia) the self-centered, selfish, and possessive love (the variety of avenging love showed by Phaedra with respect to his traitorous husband, Theseus and her incest love for her stepson, Hippolytus) and last but not the least, the disloyal and unfaithful love of Theseus to his wife, Phaedra. body Racine presented in this play the different attitudes of work force when under the spell of love it is implied as that it makes or breaks a person. At best, love could not only make a person (the lover) to attain ones full potential of doing good due to the inspiration attained from the intent of love but also, at worst, love can lead to hatred and revenge once the expected love is not returned or is abused by pain-crashing disloyalty.Moreover, as loves pros and cons are present by the author in this literary piece, good and evil was also portray by effects and consequences of each kind of love discussed in the aforementioned statement. ratiocination Love thus, follows the principle that You reap what you set out if used as a ordnance to avenge the painful sorrow, it may gain and lead to ones own destruction and further injury (bad karma). at a time love is used and treated as inspiration, it has good results and it motivates (good karma). However, if one feigned against love, high treason would be its same cost.