PHEDRE illustrates the attitude of men toward women in the age of reason and political absolutism, in which men represent logic, order, and strength while women represent emotions, weakness, and disorder.

Using evidence from the play, discuss how Racine’s PHEDRE reinforces the stereotype of woman as a destructive force in nature, known as a femme fatale.

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In Jean Racines Phedre he delineates the character a Phedre in the most genuine feeling of how men felt and contemplated women of that time period This state of mind that men had amid the Age of Reaso... View the full answer