The Role Of Phaedre In Hippolytus

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s, he is a narcissistic male and is self-sufficient. He cannot know Phaedre’s passion and desire to him. Hippolytus is a controversial temperament and he contradicts his operations. He worships Artemis, but does not prestige Artemide. Besides, he is full of chastity and abhors women:
Women! This coin which men detect counterfeit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!
Why, why, Lord Zeus, did you put them in the earth,
in the light of the sun? If you were so determined
apt propagate the race of men, the source of it
ought not have been women…
That husband has the easiest life whose wife
is a mere naught, a easy fool,
uselessly sitting by the fireside.
I detest a smart woman. God forbid
that I should ever have a woman by home
with extra than woman’s wits! (263-264)
However, Hippolytus does no indict Phaedre of her guilt. She has not acted her passion, but is guilty for her thoughts and appetites. Phaedre absences to achieve her goal and she fight for her love-object. Hippolytus says:
Now I will go and quit this house until
Theseus returns from his foreign wanderings,
and I’ll be silent.’ (264)
Phaedre’s love is deterred by a society, in which the social norms restrict such kind of love, and this love opposes interests and norms of the society. Besides, erotic love was below restrictions in entire societies of all times. These are the words of Sigmund Freud,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who tensions that ‘erotic life has in all period capable Taboos, laws and customs impose beyond restrictions,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which affect either men and women. Not all civilizations go equally distant in this; and the economic framework of the society likewise influences the quantity of sexual liberty that remains’ (59).