The eponymous protagonist of Phèdre emerges as a true tragic heroine by exercising her own free will to commit wrong instead of being a mere victim of fate. Criticism focusing on injustice has tended to shine light on Thésée, denying Phèdre royal sovereignty just as French Salic law did to queens. By shifting the spotlight from Thésée to Phèdre, and from the idea of judgment as a means of redressing injustice to injustice resulting from the challenges of governance and self–governance in royal leaders, we will see that Phèdre's gender has tended to obscure the important connection between injustice and the exercise of monarchical power. The gender of the eponymous heroine of the play operates as a cover: by associating wrongdoing with a female monarch, a literal impossibility in France, Racine is able to delve into particularly controversial aspects of unjust governance as experienced in his day and age.

佛得角的同名主角通过行使自己的自由意志犯错而不是成为命运的母亲，她成为真正的悲剧女主角。对不公正现象的批评倾向于照亮These修斯，否认了弗德勒王室的主权，就像法国萨利克法对皇后所做的那样。通过将目光从蒂塞（Thésée）转移到费德（Phèdre），以及将判断作为纠正不公正的手段的观念转变为王室领导人的治理和自我治理的挑战所导致的不公正，我们将看到，费德的性别倾向于掩盖了不公正与君主权力行使之间的重要联系。剧中同名女主角的性别作为掩饰：将不法行为与女君主联系在一起，这在法国实际上是不可能的，