Phaedra

Hunter prey relationship in Phaedra. Elaborate

Hunter prey relationship in Phaedra elaborate

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Phaedra begins with a man setting out to hunt, and proceeds to examine various ways in which the notion of hunting might manifest itself within the walls of a city. Phaedra and her nurse seek to seduce Hippolytus, luring him to satisfy Phaedra’s designs; they emerge as predators, he as prey. Phaedra, however, is likewise prey – prey to Cupid, that merciless hunter who targets all living beings with his arrows. At the end of the play, Hippolytus sees his role as hunter reversed, a bull from the sea plummeting toward him and his horses, eyes locked on the target ahead. Seneca portrays the machinations that accompany love as games akin to a forest hunt, replete with traps, snares, feints, and unexpected reversals.