If Theseus had listen to his son instead of firing his anger like that without giving his son a chance to prove his innocent then Hyppolytus would have been alive. Passion takes over rational desire. As human being, people let out passion and ignore the reasonable actions. However, if people do not let passion rises to the surface and keeps it inside then it will kill them from the inside, as demonstrated by Phaedra.
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel is a literature work in which he portrayed human's passions and reasons though vices and follies. His intention was to show how disappointing the human race is compare to the horse race called Houyhnhnm. Through out Gulliver's 3 years stay in the Houyhnhm land he described to his Houyhnhnm Master what the human race is like. He talked about the passion of wars, money, layers, laws, and powers, and how the human race uses reasons to handle them. He described nations warring against each other through the passion of "ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern", "quarrel between two princes", "enemy is too strong", and "neighbors want the things which we have, or have the things which we want." After hearing about wars the Master concluded that "instead of reason, we were only possessed of some quality fitted to increase our natural vices;" meaning that human fight because they do not have enough reasons. Gulliver went on and described how the passion of money corrupts the inequality of the human race. Money is the root of all evil; it separates those with money and those without money. He described "that the bulk of our people was forced to live miserably by laboring every day for small wages to make a few live plentifully." Even though with money human can buy all the things they need to survive, but to Gulliver, he thinks that "they could never have enough of it to spend or to save." Human's passion for money has caused us take on some irrational and immoral occupations such as "begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, foreswearing, flattering, suborning, forging .
