Phaedras Declaration of Love to Hippolytus - 605 Words

Phaedras Declaration of Love to Hippolytus Phaedra emotions are ultimately unstable and erratic. She can no longer suppress her huge infatuation for Hippolytus. She finds Hippolytus very lustrous. She is galvanized at the core to release her feelings, because the build-up of these intense emotions would become too onerous for her to cope with. Her confession becomes a conduit in her trying save her son, this is to assure that he will be crown king of Athens. If she don’t declare her love for him then she will forever regret it and feel trap. She has made the executive decision to utter out how she feels regardless of what her mother and the nurse thinks. As she vehemently declares her love for Hippolytus, her confession becomes an ultimate tragedy because Hippolytus rejects her love for him. She becomes an emotional wreck seeking to take her own life. But the love that Phaedra feels for Hippolytus is too immense that her emotions pulsate through her veins like a river. For love is indeed destructive and this is what Oenone admonishes to Phaedra. There is a sense of isolation that comes with the declaration because she knows that what she is doing very atrocious. Her passion becomes too monstrous turning her ill emotionally and physically. She has become a slave to her emotions. She is in a constant battle with love and sin. Phaedra vows to take this chance and in the end she committed suicide from this tragedy. Phaedra’s ultimate quest to confess her love for Hippolytus