Topic > Phaedra's love for Hippolytus - 867

In act two, scene five, powerful revelations are revealed in this part. Ultimately Phaedra is on a quest to declare her immense love for Hippolytus at all costs. He has this insatiable desire to protest what he feels because he can't hide it anymore. The scene is made up of intense emotions and Racine's writing style conveyed in this scene serves to demonstrate how erratic and unstable Phaedra's emotions have become. This is the scene where Phaedra can no longer control her emotions. His emotions become too overwhelming. His love for Ippolito is fantastic. She's more than desperate. It goes from being moderately stable to extremely unstable. Her passion becomes too monstrous making her emotionally and physically ill. In the Racine scene, he exploits Phaedra's emotions using strong choice of words, metaphors, images and past tenses. Using these powerful techniques he can successfully convey Phaedra's emotions. There is a choice of powerful and strong words and metaphors that Racine inserts in various places in the scene. the extract. A strong word that Phaedra uses is “burn”. The word “burn” operates in the context of demonstrating great passion and love for Hippolytus. There is this eternal flame that has never gone out for Ippolito. The word “burn” serves as a great conduit in channeling his passion and emotions towards Hippolytus. She has this insatiable desire to make love to Ippolito. The word "starve", used in this context, indicates that she is missing a crucial piece of her life and that is Hippolytus. Desires Hippolytus; She is deficient and missing something and without Ippolito she will become severely weak emotionally and physically. He will die if he fails to get love, affection and... middle of paper... a final tragedy comes as Hippolytus rejects her love for him. Her passion becomes too monstrous making her emotionally and physically ill. She has become a slave to her emotions. He becomes an emotional wreck trying to take his own life. But the love Phaedra feels for Hippolytus is too immense because her emotions pulsate through her veins like a river. Because love is truly destructive and this is what Oenone warns Phaedra. There is a sense of isolation that comes with the statement because he knows that what he is doing is very heinous. He is in a constant battle with love and sin. Phaedra vows to seize this opportunity and ultimately committed suicide due to this tragedy. In Phaedra's final quest to confess her love for Hippolytus in the event, she uses a choice of strong words, imagery, metaphor and symbolism to channel and convey her emotions.