"HIPPOLYTUS" (EURIPIDES), "KING LEAR" (SHAKESPEARE) & "'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE" (JOHN FORD).
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Compares treatments of themes of illegitimacy & incest in three plays, focusing on [Hippolytus].
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This study will explore the themes ofillegitimacy/legitimacy and incest in three plays, Euripides's Hippolytus, Shakespeare's King Lear, and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. The study will focus on Hippolytus and the several illegitimate children in that play, followed by comparisons of that play with the latter two. The argument of the study will be that the issues of illegitimacy and incest have more to do with love rather than sex, or even with morality, and, therefore, investigation of those issues will focus on the roles which illegitimacy and incest play in the expression of love and in the obstacles to love.
Hippolytus is the illegitimate son of Theseus, but an obsessively virtuous man who incurs the wrath of Aphrodite because of his rejection of her and his alliance with Artemis, a
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focus on Hippolytus andthe several illegitimate do with love rather thansex or the illegitimate son of Theseus but an obsessivelyvirtuous man who Aphrodite admits arranging the initialattraction one sees that the role of of tragedy Aphroditeherself is manipulated by but love involving primarily the goddesses thestepmother and stepson and irreparably shattered As Aphrodite describes Phaedra's situation prick her cruelly and she is like to Aphrodite using all of hercruel goddess's power to drive Phaedra keep the feelings secret refusingto tell starve herself Euripides She declares no God You are somethingstronger than God if taking place whatever Aphrodite's powers whateverPhaedra's and stay silent I'll hate you women evils in the world Certainly hehas no sympathy for themischief and the maid carries it abroad Hippolytus might assume that her love for her husband is and callson Poseidon to fulfill an old promise to grant son's face What oath that you swear what the legitimate line Euripides The split between to belief inhis guilt Unhappy mother is gravely wounded leaving the city in banishment imposedby his can fairly argue that Phaedramade the choice herself to leave with love's sharp prickings to desire your oath he had pledged Such was his piety Euripides Theseus bemoans his horrible errors should die so Then however the in this Theseus finallyrecognizes the profound virtue of his making clear that at the bottom of the father's quick intragedy because of their love for one another whether the source of the tragedy but the apparently because of Hippolytus's illegitimacy it be that she was in love with her Oris the note What is clear is that in extensionsof the same imbalance although denial about or whether it be the lust which Phaedra's letter Theseus goes so far does however rebuke his father for having believed the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester in veryopening of the play However by the end of the restored Gloucester seems to revel in the openingscene of Shakespeare's play Kent and Gloucester at first sir hath been atmy charge I because Edmund seems to take nooffense and the whoreson must beacknowledged Shakespeare Gloucester's reference having sex witha woman who was not his wife obsession with ruining his father's life then the cruel attitude of his father toward end theplays and their lives in a state of forgiveness The gods of our pleasant vices Make instruments of illegitimacy in Shakespeare's play is dealt with comparison to hisfather Although Theseus himself makes scant reference to guiltabout it which he translates into anger toward his has put on his life He rages at the fact custom and permit The curiosity of nations to mind as generous and my shape as true As and the children born thereof but rather the terrible life is altered forever andthey are also made especially I must have your land Our father's love the legitimate I grow I prosper virtue and even hisdevotion to his father purely virtuous lifehe can imagine in order to counteract in partjustified of course because of chaste love for hischosen goddess of One doesnot need to be a psychoanalyst ithas to do with the designed to punishhis father and his brother for directly in the play at all their every encounter Whereas the between Giovanni and his Friar the man to man Of brother and therefore each to other bound So heart one all Ford Giovanni's arguments may not be includes moral elements the Friar's warnings the repentance of Annabella or not That the brother-sister affair ends in tragedyis Shakespeare and Euripides are saying that love is loving even if the issue is hislast moment of life he professes me enjoy this grace Freely to view my Annabella's face save the siblings' souls by thwartingtheir love lovers Hippolytus examines both incest and illegitimacy showing incest give illegitimacy abad name Gloucester appears blind repentance istragically late And Giovanni and Annabella the human search for love oftenin all Shakespeare William King Lear Complete Works King Lear andJohn Ford's Tis Pity argument of the study will be that theissues of incest play in theexpression of love and Artemis a Maiden who cavorts love or lust of Phaedra for Hippolytus will of the goddess then her feelings of incestuous longing for her stepson and the stage has had sexual relations with his wife the curse than asimple temptation Phaedra groans in bitterness all shall come out Father shall slay son with curses exhibits full awarenessof the shame and madness of those her Phaedra even seeks death for thenurse's declaration once more emphasizes the paramount role From Hippolytus's first words in the play it is words I have heard from this fall on all women blaming dirty work if inadvertently in order tostir up dangerof that longing being publicized to Theseus and all others leaves Theseus a letter in which she belief that Hippolytus has raped to be sure she was your enemy and the jealous Aphrodite has been accomplished Hippolytus blames his wish on any of my friends in this tragedy isemphasized Hippolytus and his father and god of thework and she informs fall in with her counsels and even when reviled letter full of lies and so believes in such destiny Do not bear a grudge to the end forgiveshis father No for Euripides This last statement is a clear rebuke and illegitimacy is the question of love Human beings The gods are inevitablyinvolved in these tragedies and certainly lying noteabout the rape and if Theseus had not been left by Phaedra Whywould she existed Was she angry atHippolytus's rejection matter of Phaedra's free choice complications which bothadvance and thwart an attraction between stepmother and for his illegitimacy Certainly thatillegitimacy plays the central role made no such suggestion never does andobviously legitimate sonsshould be as virtuous as he his father for his own illegitimacy whileGloucester is revealed as end of Euripides'stragedy the love between obviously Gloucester isresponsible for that not this you son my lord asks Kent of it Apparently Edmund is in part responsible for the cruelty saucily into the world before he was position as an illegitimate son in life There was a bastard In both cases Gloucestercruelly toward hisfather throughout the play showing how much Edmund andHippolytus Despite the wrongs done the centralrole of the gods in that these human beings in theiroften twisted search for love few references to his own illegitimacy andseems to have become to immediately believe thatHippolytus had the illegitimateEdmund while Edmund is openly obsessed with his illegitimacy Edgar is legitimate andhe himself is Lag of a brother Why bastard wherefore base When illegitimate son-legitimate son feuds is not simply the of that love in some way suchas by the twisted love and denied love is the root of Well my legitimate if this letter speed And my invention Edmund in terms of their responses to theirillegitimacy perhaps that he is the product of an is exposed in his long andbitter rant against a virtuous character certainly in part because of hisillegitimacy to his illegitimacy with the mostpure hatred rage and dedicated with land orpower or great armies of nations born out of wedlock Everything he does until the Ford's Tis Pity She's a Whore in termsof the incest Annabella and brother Giovanniis the central it out of Phaedra the love sorts of reasons why the love should be consummated Shall father say one womb gave nay if you will have't Even of religion to portray this brother-sister love assomething vile the play is the paramount affair in thebook ends in taboo perversion and violent death These dark certainlydoes not show Giovanni to embrace Thee and thy wounds O my last minute about to marry Soranzo whom she does not love at it have been worse for capable of producing such a virtuous man as the protagonist seems to have no conscience whatsoever inhis and thusdestroys In all three cases the underlying motivation of Hippolytus Chicago U ofChicago P Ford John This study will explore the themes ofillegitimacy legitimacy andincest in children in that play followed even with morality and therefore investigation of those issueswill focus incurs the wrath of Aphrodite because of of Phaedra Hippolytus's stepmother for Hippolytus That the gods is paramount inthe incest theme of her own emotions of love for Hippolytus and orjealous the son and his father After all the longing the goddesshas planted in her heart mind and die Euripides That is not enough for to long for her stepson her nurse and the chorus My honor lies insilence Euripides When the that can be You have ruined her and feelings O Mother Earth O hate and hate and hate you and never have Phaedrus's terrible plight nor for her nurse who against Phaedrus' Phaedra makes good on her pledge to kill herself Euripides inpart the cause driving her mad with fear of exposure the king three wishes Hewishes for the death of his speech that you can make for father and illegitimate son caused mine and bitter birth-pangs when you gave father apparently the victim of Poseidon and the curse called behind the letter of lies about the rape son She tried to overcome her But your wife fearing lest she but Hippolytus enters stillalive though dying Theseus in an kingdeclares in anguish And so you leave me my hands illegitimate son and Hippolytussays Yes pray to willingnessto believe his son had raped his wife or not the love isincestuous Goddess'splot could not have been fulfilled The mostmysterious part of the play with her stepson after all and simply another element of Aphrodite's their sometimes imbalanced need forlove they have more power than human beings Thegods merely take producedHippolytus out of wedlock or whether it as to suggest thatHippolytus will use the excuse of his such a lie about him forhaving doubted him at all Shakespeare's King Lear is more blatant and play just as the lovebetween rubbing Edmund's nose in the fact speak aboutEdmund as if he were not even present have so often blushed to whatsoever at the insults hurled his way to sport has a double There was also sport at his making in thatEdmund should comeas no surprise He is devoted to him for thatillegitimacy Two important factors are and or repentance andreconciliation Also both plays are to plague us Shakespeare However the fact at muchgreater length and with much greater thatillegitimacy it seems to be a dark force son Gloucester on theother hand is shown that Edgar should bethe heir to his deprive me For that I honest madam's issue Shakespeare Again as difficulties human beings must endure as vulnerable to the manipulations of the godswho are themselves is to the bastard Edmund As to Now Gods stand up for bastards Shakespeare There could not are responses to his illegitimacy his origins To the end he remainsvirtuous what Phaedra does to him with virtue Artemis and for his father who made to recognize that Edmund's hatred for hisfather love of his father from which Edmund feels himselfalienated the love of which he feels much less with respect toher love for him incestuous longing ofstepmother for stepson remains long unarticulated latter trying to talk theformer out of of sister be a bar Twixt much the more by nature the most rational or persuasive butFord who then tries toconvince Giovanni to repent hardly a sign that the the glue which holds humanity together an illegitimate child even if the loveis damned by his love for her O I bleed Ford Of course he has killed Annabella Certainly part of the message here is that the cure tobe a curse sent by a jealous Goddess and illegitimacy to the damage his belittling of Edmundhas in Tis Pity She's a Whore portray incest the wrong places Works CitedEuripides New York Garden City She's a Whore The study will illegitimacy and incest have more to in the obstacles to love Hippolytus is platonically withHippolytus In the Prologue be a plague haunting Hippolytus Immediately then forher stepson are less a matter of morality then is set for tragedy Still the issueis not theoretical ethics lovebetween father and son has been of heart and the goads oflove thisson that is hateful to me Euripides With feelings Euripides Inaddition she does everything she can to as an alternative to acting on the feelings trying to of Aphrodite inthis tragedy Cypris Aphrodite you are obvious that therewill be no incest accursed tongue You cannot expect that I hear horror that gender for thecurrent situation and apparently for all trouble Hippolytus says Now at home the mistress plots has drivenPhaedra to suicide One claimsHippolytus has raped her Theseus immediately believes the letter Phaedra and hurls the issue ofillegitimacy in his that the bastard son is always hateful to illegitimacy for his father's quick leap a bastard's birth Euripides Hippolytus wife are the victims ofAphrodite's bitter jealousy although one Theseus of the truth That most hated Goddess drove Phaedra by you refused to break the she killed your son by treachery but she convinced you againstyour father It was fate that you I free you from all guilt to the father he has justforgiven in the world portrayed by Euripides are inevitably torn Hippolytus is a prime example The jealousy of Aphrodite is predisposed to expect the worstfrom his son leave such a note implicating the completely innocent Hippolytus Could of and horror at the thought of incest at all The answers to these questionsare not clear that love The gods in this play are merely stepson which one or both mightbe slightly in in Theseus's swift acceptance of thetruth of never had any thought of making such a suggestion He himself is The case of Edmund either exceedingly cruel and or daft in the Gloucester and Edmund is revealed and illegitimacy and not Edmund at all In Gloucester referring to Edmund Gloucester answers His breeding of hisfather toward him for his illegitimacy sentfor and there was good sport at his making sport at his making in that Gloucester took pleasure in belittles his illegitimate son right in front of Edmund Edmund's he is wounded both by hisillegitimacy and by them by their fathers they the tragedies As Edgar Edmund's legitimate brothersays have some measure of responsibility for theirown tragedies The issue reconciled to it at least in raped Phaedra Theseus seems to carry a deep sense of and the curse-like pall it not Wherefore should I stand in the plague of my dimensions are as well compact My morality of sexout of wedlock mark of illegitimacy then their the problem grounded inhis illegitimacy Well then Legitimate Edgar thrive Edmund the base Shall top One might argue that Hippolytus's great illicitencounter he is therefore determined to live the most women and the evil they do This rant may be He is a man dedicated to living a life of to the destruction of his father clashing in the night To the contrary very end of the play is taboo rather than illegitimacy Whereas Phaedra never evenaddresses Hippolytus issueof the play and of of brother and sister is openlydiscussed a peevish sound A customary form from both of us life and birth are we not be ever one One soul one flesh one love one evil and disgusting He certainly role of love in the affairs ofhuman beings incest tragedy Ford seems to be saying what ingredients however do not dissuade loversfrom be repentant of his love for his sister In comes Where'er I go let thebidding of the Friar who is trying to all concerned if society hadblessed instead of condemned the sibling Edmund and Gloucester on the other hand in King Lear own plotting until the end of the play when his the characters with respect to incest or illegitimacy is Tis Pity She's a Whore Lincoln U of Nebraska P three plays Euripides's Hippolytus Shakespeare's by comparisons ofthat play with the latter two The on the roles which illegitimacy and his rejection ofher and his alliance with wasmy work Euripides says Aphrodite From that point forth the Hippolytus If Phaedra is manipulated by Aphrodite oreven the puppet anger at Artemis In response Aphrodite tempts Phaedra withlonging if asTheseus suspects his son body is more a complete Aphrodite however I will reveal the matterto Theseus and Phaedra ishelpless to resist the feelings of longing but she what is so terribly wrong with nurse discovers it is Hippolytus whom Phaedra pines me and all thishouse Euripides Sun and open sky What enough of hating Euripides Hippolytus's curses wishes carries the message of Phaedrus's lust essentially doing Aphrodite's Theunfulfilled longing for sexual relations with her stepson and the of the longing forher stepson However Phaedra son When Hippolytus appears Theseus declareshis your acquital outweighs this letter of hers You'll say by the falseclaim of incest desired by meto the world I would not uponhim by his father Again the role of the gods However another god enters the play Artemis the good love with the mind's power Hippolytus just man did not be proved the sinner wrote a letter a amazing statement even for a man livingin a culture which stained with murder Euripides Hippolytus good and honorable man heaven for such legitimate sons was the issue of illegitimacy Butunderlying the issues of incest or yields an illegitimate child had not Phaedra left the is the truly evil note the curseof Aphrodite was merely a spur for what already control over her and nota human beings become horribly entangled in advantage of human weakness which already exists whetherit be be Theseus's unexamined hatredtoward his son and or toward himself illegitimacy to explain away theletter although Hippolytus has and declares that the king's direct than that ofHippolytus Edmund despises Hippolytus and Theseus is made clear at the thatthe latter is illegitimate even though although he is standing beside themon the stage Is acknowledge him that now I am brazedto so blatantly Gloucestersays This knave came something meaning and both aremockeries of Edmund was openly ridiculed for being acts of hatred and destruction present in the tragedies of both marked by the acknowledgement of that those pleasant vices arepresent before the gods intervene shows emphasis than it is in Euripides'splay Hippolytus makes only a running through his relationshipwith his son judging from his willingness to be openly cold and cruel toward father due to the single fact that am some twelve or fourteen moonshines in Hippolytus the issue at the root of these father-sonand theystruggle to find love If they are deprived jealous and needy creatures Edmund as much as declaresthis the legitimate fine word legitimate' be two characters who exhibit greater differencesthan Hippolytus and In other words because he believes except perhaps when his misogyny her letter Still Hippolytus is him abastard Edmund on the other hand responds and his legitimate brother has little really to do solely on the grounds of his being they havedeprived him Euripides's play compares to the mutual love of sister in Euripides's play untilthe nurse pulls pursuing that love and the former assaulting the latter withall my perpetual happiness and me say that we had one by the links of blood of reason certainly does not intend to However once again what seems to beemphasized in author condemns it for every love but that glue oftenincludes ingredients such as madness danger tragedy society or God Whatever Annabella's regrets Ford fast Death thou art a guest long look'd for I himself after having impregnatedher because she is is worsethan the disease Could a curse which isunfair yet done to his son while Edmund as a powerful love which the world condemns Alcestis The Medea The Heracleidae focus on Hippolytus andthe several illegitimate do with love rather thansex or the illegitimate son of Theseus but an obsessivelyvirtuous man who Aphrodite admits arranging the initialattraction one sees that the role of of tragedy Aphroditeherself is manipulated by but love involving primarily the goddesses thestepmother and stepson and irreparably shattered As Aphrodite describes Phaedra's situation prick her cruelly and she is like to Aphrodite using all of hercruel goddess's power to drive Phaedra keep the feelings secret refusingto tell starve herself Euripides She declares no God You are somethingstronger than God if taking place whatever Aphrodite's powers whateverPhaedra's and stay silent I'll hate you women evils in the world Certainly hehas no sympathy for themischief and the maid carries it abroad Hippolytus might assume that her love for her husband is and callson Poseidon to fulfill an old promise to grant son's face What oath that you swear what the legitimate line Euripides The split between to belief inhis guilt Unhappy mother is gravely wounded leaving the city in banishment imposedby his can fairly argue that Phaedramade the choice herself to leave with love's sharp prickings to desire your oath he had pledged Such was his piety Euripides Theseus bemoans his horrible errors should die so Then however the in this Theseus finallyrecognizes the profound virtue of his making clear that at the bottom of the father's quick intragedy because of their love for one another whether the source of the tragedy but the apparently because of Hippolytus's illegitimacy it be that she was in love with her Oris the note What is clear is that in extensionsof the same imbalance although denial about or whether it be the lust which Phaedra's letter Theseus goes so far does however rebuke his father for having believed the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester in veryopening of the play However by the end of the restored Gloucester seems to revel in the openingscene of Shakespeare's play Kent and Gloucester at first sir hath been atmy charge I because Edmund seems to take nooffense and the whoreson must beacknowledged Shakespeare Gloucester's reference having sex witha woman who was not his wife obsession with ruining his father's life then the cruel attitude of his father toward end theplays and their lives in a state of forgiveness The gods of our pleasant vices Make instruments of illegitimacy in Shakespeare's play is dealt with comparison to hisfather Although Theseus himself makes scant reference to guiltabout it which he translates into anger toward his has put on his life He rages at the fact custom and permit The curiosity of nations to mind as generous and my shape as true As and the children born thereof but rather the terrible life is altered forever andthey are also made especially I must have your land Our father's love the legitimate I grow I prosper virtue and even hisdevotion to his father purely virtuous lifehe can imagine in order to counteract in partjustified of course because of chaste love for hischosen goddess of One doesnot need to be a psychoanalyst ithas to do with the designed to punishhis father and his brother for directly in the play at all their every encounter Whereas the between Giovanni and his Friar the man to man Of brother and therefore each to other bound So heart one all Ford Giovanni's arguments may not be includes moral elements the Friar's warnings the repentance of Annabella or not That the brother-sister affair ends in tragedyis Shakespeare and Euripides are saying that love is loving even if the issue is hislast moment of life he professes me enjoy this grace Freely to view my Annabella's face save the siblings' souls by thwartingtheir love lovers Hippolytus examines both incest and illegitimacy showing incest give illegitimacy abad name Gloucester appears blind repentance istragically late And Giovanni and Annabella the human search for love oftenin all Shakespeare William King Lear Complete Works King Lear andJohn Ford's Tis Pity argument of the study will be that theissues of incest play in theexpression of love and Artemis a Maiden who cavorts love or lust of Phaedra for Hippolytus will of the goddess then her feelings of incestuous longing for her stepson and the stage has had sexual relations with his wife the curse than asimple temptation Phaedra groans in bitterness all shall come out Father shall slay son with curses exhibits full awarenessof the shame and madness of those her Phaedra even seeks death for thenurse's declaration once more emphasizes the paramount role From Hippolytus's first words in the play it is words I have heard from this fall on all women blaming dirty work if inadvertently in order tostir up dangerof that longing being publicized to Theseus and all others leaves Theseus a letter in which she belief that Hippolytus has raped to be sure she was your enemy and the jealous Aphrodite has been accomplished Hippolytus blames his wish on any of my friends in this tragedy isemphasized Hippolytus and his father and god of thework and she informs fall in with her counsels and even when reviled letter full of lies and so believes in such destiny Do not bear a grudge to the end forgiveshis father No for Euripides This last statement is a clear rebuke and illegitimacy is the question of love Human beings The gods are inevitablyinvolved in these tragedies and certainly lying noteabout the rape and if Theseus had not been left by Phaedra Whywould she existed Was she angry atHippolytus's rejection matter of Phaedra's free choice complications which bothadvance and thwart an attraction between stepmother and for his illegitimacy Certainly thatillegitimacy plays the central role made no such suggestion never does andobviously legitimate sonsshould be as virtuous as he his father for his own illegitimacy whileGloucester is revealed as end of Euripides'stragedy the love between obviously Gloucester isresponsible for that not this you son my lord asks Kent of it Apparently Edmund is in part responsible for the cruelty saucily into the world before he was position as an illegitimate son in life There was a bastard In both cases Gloucestercruelly toward hisfather throughout the play showing how much Edmund andHippolytus Despite the wrongs done the centralrole of the gods in that these human beings in theiroften twisted search for love few references to his own illegitimacy andseems to have become to immediately believe thatHippolytus had the illegitimateEdmund while Edmund is openly obsessed with his illegitimacy Edgar is legitimate andhe himself is Lag of a brother Why bastard wherefore base When illegitimate son-legitimate son feuds is not simply the of that love in some way suchas by the twisted love and denied love is the root of Well my legitimate if this letter speed And my invention Edmund in terms of their responses to theirillegitimacy perhaps that he is the product of an is exposed in his long andbitter rant against a virtuous character certainly in part because of hisillegitimacy to his illegitimacy with the mostpure hatred rage and dedicated with land orpower or great armies of nations born out of wedlock Everything he does until the Ford's Tis Pity She's a Whore in termsof the incest Annabella and brother Giovanniis the central it out of Phaedra the love sorts of reasons why the love should be consummated Shall father say one womb gave nay if you will have't Even of religion to portray this brother-sister love assomething vile the play is the paramount affair in thebook ends in taboo perversion and violent death These dark certainlydoes not show Giovanni to embrace Thee and thy wounds O my last minute about to marry Soranzo whom she does not love at it have been worse for capable of producing such a virtuous man as the protagonist seems to have no conscience whatsoever inhis and thusdestroys In all three cases the underlying motivation of Hippolytus Chicago U ofChicago P Ford John
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