On Fei Dela "and" Hippolytus "the Adaptation Of The Fairy Tale With A Comparative Study

Based on the prototypes Phaedra and Hippolytus of the ancient Greek mythology, this paper focuses on its adaptation and remodeling in the future generations. At the same motif, the playwrights have emerged with various degrees of variation effects with different times and values in the performance of the theme because of their different understanding.This paper is divided into six parts. Introduction leads to the conclusion that Greek mythology is the precious cultural heritage of world civilization by the well-known British historian Amold J.Toynbee, who has provided with the patterns of world history based on the basic research units on civilization, and it briefs the incestuous story on Phaedra and Hippolytus of Greek mythology. I, II, III, IV, respectively discuss on the most famous four scripts adapted from the myth prototypes, which include Hippolytus by the Greek tragedian Euripides, Phaedra by the French classical dramatist Racine in the 17th century, Phaedra by the Russian poetess Tsvetaeva in the early 20th century, and Phaedra's love by the contemporary female British playwright Sarah Kane. The final part concludes on two points: on the one hand, it compares the differences of the three roles in the process of the remodeling by these four playwrights from the three main characters in the scripts for Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Theseus; On the other hand, from the initial Euripides creates Hippolytus to express his sympathy and understanding on the women in the period of slavery with the patriarchal dominating the world because the playwrights are at the different times, but objectively it's still difficult to extricate themselves from that era climate of men's blasphemous awareness on women. During the classical period, Racine thinks it's too sinister for a noble queen to speak out the defamatory words, but in fact, Phaedra is still described as a highly jealous woman and has the violation of ethics, morality, and loses her minds. However, it obeys the rule of the classical literature on extolling the rationality and castigating the ideology. Up to the era of Tsvetaeva, it's the times of burgeoning to research the psychology. People start to make a great deal of concern on individual deep-seated psychology. Poetess takes advantages of psychological description to show the female's delicate emotions on loneliness, pain, fever, etc., and then she points out the causes of the Phaedra's marriage crisis: the differences of age and emotion between her and Theseus. Poetess shows the compassion and sympathy on Phaedra from the view of human nature. Sarah Kane is placed her story in the context of contemporary life, and focuses on the individual's own pain and confusion because of the loss of faith and traditional moral values in the modern society: whether Phaedra or Hippolytus has been lost in this disorder, violent and veiled value system, and it manifests the playwright's thoughts and awakening about the survival of individual in the modern state.