Please answer at least two questions or bring up your own ideas:
1. What atmosphere does the play create once the curtain falls? What role does the fifth act add to this atmosphere?
2. Aricia is absent since the middle of Act II yet reappears here at the beginning of Act V. What type of character is she in this act? What impression does the coupling of Aricia-Hippolyte give you? What function does she serve as a character?
3. Discuss Theseus's evolution through out play.
4. Why does Phedre commit suicide by poisoning herself? What might this have to do with the symbolism of the labyrinth and Minotaur as well as the themes of love, desire, and sexuality we have discussed?
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