Pyrrhus Suffering in Andromaque

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[...] Pyrrhus suffers from the fact that he is not loved by Andromache. He is overwhelmed by his passionate love for her, which makes him pathetic and tragic because he is completely bound by it. He tries to convince her to marry him but she refuses, which saddens him. The personification illustrates his lamentation: 'let one of my sighs that my heart sends you'. His despair is highlighted by his multiple plaintive requests such as: 'Must my sighs ask for my life? [...]

[...] The parallelism highlights the pain he feels since he is overwhelmed by his amorous passion and knows that his love is not reciprocated: die if I lose you, but I die if I wait for you' (v972). Pyrrhus can no longer wait and remain in uncertainty. He is reduced to enduring it, until death ensues. Finally, the term 'tears out a heart' is brutal and thus highlights the violence of his suffering 'Andromaque tears out a heart that she despises' (v1298). [...]

[...] He also exchanges avec Hermione for they were engaged to find out more about the marriage to come. Is he responsible for what happens to him?" He is not entirely responsible for what happens to him. Certainly, Pyrrhus made false advances to Hermione while he wanted to marry Andromaque. However, he could not expect her disproportionate reaction. In fact, she came to ask Oreste to kill her. To whom or what does he attribute the cause of his misfortune? He attributes the cause of his misfortune to Andromaque. [...]

[...] The enumeration highlights the lexicon of pity 'groan')." On the other hand, the author makes us share Pyrrhus' suffering by showing a lost man. Pyrrhus expresses his despair throughout the play, lamenting, notably through rhetorical questions he asks Andromache: 'Can I still hope / That you will accept a heart that adores you?' (v294). The previous opposition with hatred evokes pity for him because he is not loved by the woman he loves. Furthermore, the exclamatory and interrogative punctuation illustrates a lost man: 'And can Madame? [...]

[...] The author illustrious throughout the play the suffering of Pyrrhus using the pathetic and tragic register. Of a part, it sensitizes us to its pain by the pathetic register in seeking to move the reader to pity for sto suffering, which is expressed by all the hatred he receives from the other characters. In fact, the lexical field of fury appears as a guiding line of the work: 'hatred' 'wrath' 'perjury' 'insults' 'rage'. Pyrrhus seems to be hated by everyone, especially his own homeland: 'Hated by all Greeks, pressed from all sides' (v291) ; Hatred, contempt, against me all come together / You hate me more than all the Greeks together" (v921-922). [...]