1. 17th century and Romantics
... 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, ... is chastity. That's its wrong and he's pure. A fifth confession is when Phedre talks about this passion she has for Hippolytus by changing her husband Thesus from killing a monster, the minotaur to Hippolytus, and not having her sister help Thesus, but have it her. Sh...
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