Abstract
The area of this study is the play “Phèdre”, the master-
piece of the author Jean Racine.
The objective of the study is to analyze this play, then
the method we have applied is the analytic method.
The study composed of three chapters: chapter one is
an introductory chapter in which we talk about the author’s
life, the author’s works, the theatre in the seventeenth
century, the Racine’s tragedy, the characteristics of
Racine’s hero and finally the summary of the play.
Chapter two concerns the analysis of the themes: the
main theme (the fatal love) and the minor themes (jealousy,
the fatherly love, the reciprocal love and the death).
Chapter three concerns the analysis of the characters, the
major characters (Phèdre, Thésée and Hippolyte) and the
minor characters (Oenone and Aricie).
And finally the conclusion in which we have come to
some points as the results of the study. .