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Phaedra's Love- Lisa
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thanks for the insights :) I would also like to ask why the priest did a blowjob on Hippolytus? It's seems so out of the blue? And then Hippolytus told him to "go, confess,before you burn." Is it because he knows the priest is a hypocrite, and that he has this sexual preference for men?
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New themes introduced in Phaedra's Love:
- Hippolytus insists on being honest about how he is, warts and all, rather than save himself by compromising.
- His refusal to embrace Christianity on his deathbed 'just in case', pointing out that any omnipotent deity would realise the hypocrisy of this. He prefers to 'die as he lives, in conscious sin'.
Archive 21-9-2001
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Hello, can anyone give me more insights into Phaedra's Love? Am currently studying it for my module. I only know that it's a reworking of Seneca, and it's about obsessive love, hypocrasy, violence. How is it related to Sarah and are there new themes explored in an old text? Thanks
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