choice it is divine revenge The goddess uses Phaedra as a tool to punish the family Seneca shows that divine revenge can destroy even the innocent and make humans helpless before fate Phaedra s Revenge on Hippolytus After Hippolytus rejects Phaedra with harsh words her wounded pride turns into revenge She feels insulted by his purity and hate He says Away with thy impure touch from my chaste body This rejection fills Phaedra with shame and anger When the Nurse falsely cries that Hippolytus attacked the queen Phaedra stays silent Her silence becomes her revenge She lets the lie destroy him Phaedra s revenge comes from her hurt heart Seneca shows how love can turn into anger and how revenge grows from wounded desire Theseus Revenge on Hippolytus When Theseus returns and hears the Nurse s lie he believes it and curses Hippolytus He calls on Neptune for revenge crying Now fulfill the sad boon O ruler of the sea Let Hippolytus see the bright day no more His words bring his son s death This act is the most direct revenge in the play Theseus does not search for truth His anger and pride control his heart Seneca presents him as a father blinded by emotion His revenge shows how quick judgment and uncontrolled wrath can destroy love family and justice Phaedra s Revenge on Herself At the end Phaedra takes revenge on herself Her guilt becomes unbearable She kills herself to punish her sin Before dying she admits her lie and says the truth about Hippolytus Her death is both revenge and repentance She says This is the only way the one sole escape from evil Through suicide she frees her soul from shame Seneca makes her death a tragic form of moral revenge Her death restores justice but also shows how sin and falsehood finally punish the sinner Moral and Philosophical Revenge Seneca was a Stoic philosopher so his idea of revenge is moral not only emotional He shows that passion and guilt bring their own punishment The Chorus says Fate without order rules the affairs of men It means that moral law controls the universe Every wrong act returns as revenge Phaedra s love Hippolytus pride and Theseus anger all meet their punishment Thus the play s revenge is not just personal it is cosmic Seneca teaches that revenge comes naturally when reason loses control and passion rules In termination we can say that Phaedra is not only a tragedy of love but also of revenge Venus s curse Phaedra s silence and Theseus s fury all bring destruction The divine personal and moral revenge together form the tragic end Seneca uses revenge to show the fall of reason and the victory of passion Thus Phaedra becomes a powerful revenge tragedy filled with guilt anger punishment and moral lessons