Phaedra: Greek Tragedy of Jean Rancine

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This paper looks at the Greek poem Phaedra and the challenging role of the anti heroine Phaedra as she battles with her inner emotions of an illicit affair. The paper looks at Phaedra herself and asks whether she is wholly evil or rather just a pawn of the Gods.

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"The Greek hero is a much loved and favored topic of many an author be they classicist, romantic or modern. Many a Greek hero has been idolized by these writers, for example Homer had his Achilles and Odysseus, and Virgil had his Aeneas. However, there is another aspect of the Greek hero or rather in the following case the heroine."

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