Units for Hippolytus: These are the original 10 points of the story, taken from the play-
1. Aphrodite secretly curses Phaedra, to fall in love with her step son, Hippolytus, as revenge for his impiety towards her.
2. Phaedra confesses her love for her step son to her Nurse.
3. Nurse confides in Hippolytus, about her mistresses love for him
4. Hippolytus confronts Phaedra
5. Phaedra kills herself, leaving an incriminating note, laying the blame on Hippolytus.
6. Theseus returns home to find his wife dead, along with the note and believes it to be true.
7. Theseus banishes Hippolytus, and curses him with death by Poseidon
8. Theseus realises, with the help of Artemis, that he is wrong
9. Because of Poseidon’s curse, Hippolytus dies anyway.
These are the stripped back version on these units-
1. A person in manipulated into a forbidden love.
2. The person confesses their forbidden love.
3. The confession id betrayed/ leaks
4. The person is forced to face up to the consequences of the leaked information
5. The person kills them self.
6. The blame is shifted, through a suicide note, to the object of forbidden love
7. There is a public outcry/ response over person’s death and action is taken against the object of the forbidden love.
8. The truth comes out/ the manipulation is revealed.
9. Regardless, the object of forbidden love’s fate is sealed.
Other ideas from our discussion after making these units include-
- Audience manipulation/ or there subservience and enjoyment over the manipulation.
- Audience agreeing with something morally wrong
- Subtle game show, new in existence.
- Watching the persons fall when she is manipulated, then her rise after death
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