Racine’s Phaedra

Phaedra, a tragic play created and popularized by Jean B. Racine is an rate of the possible pros, cons, and eminent ills or frailty experienced by wonder-stricken community depicting their own strength and weaknesses. The play implicitly showed different types of pick out that are prevalent in reality where there could be a gracious of self-giving and sacrificial bask that makes a individual stronger and pushes the fan to exert ones best and do just in life (that love of Hippolytus to Aricia) the self-centered, selfish, and possessive love (the kind of avenging love showed by Phaedra with respect to his unfaithful husband, Theseus and her incest love for her stepson, Hippolytus) and last but not the least, the unpatriotic and unfaithful love of Theseus to his wife, Phaedra.Body Racine presented in this play the different attitudes of custody when under the spell of love it is implied as that it makes or breaks a somebody. At best, love could not only make a person (the love r) to attain ones full potential of doing good payable to the inspiration attained from the object of love but also, at worst, love can lead to hatred and vengeance once the expected love is not returned or is abused by pain-crashing disloyalty.Moreover, as loves pros and cons are demonstrated by the author in this literary piece, good and evil was also portrayed by effects and consequences of each kind of love discussed in the aforementioned statement. Conclusion Love thus, follows the principle that You withdraw what you sow if used as a weapon to avenge the dread(a) sorrow, it may bring and lead to ones own close and further injury (bad karma). Once love is used and treated as inspiration, it has good results and it motivates (good karma). However, if one feigned against love, treachery would be its same cost.