Racine’s Phedre is a tragedy. There is also a conflict between reason and passion throughout this play. However, passion wins in this play, which is the opposite of Moliere’s Tartuffe. In Phedre there was a series of confessions that focused around passion. The first confession is when Hippolytus confesses that he’s in love with Arica. He went with passion instead of his reason, because his mother was an Amazon and was chastity, or virginal like, which was Hippolytus reason for not loving any woman. However passion took over. A second confession is when Phedra confesses that she too is in love with Hippolytus. She is in conflict with reason and passion because, her reason is that she knows it’s wrong, it’s an incest taboo. In this period passion was view as a negative thing. Therefore all types of things feelings came out of Phedra because of that. Passion was seen as something that was a sickness, a madness, or illness. However, passion has taken over Phedra and she confesses that she is in love with her step-son. A third confession is when Aricia confesses she’s in love with Hippolytus. Her passion has taken over her. The fourth confe

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