In this it seems to fight the myth, since the myth starts from contradictions and gradually tends to mediate them: tragedy, on the contrary, immobilizes contradictions, refuses mediation, keeps the conflict open; and it is true that whenever Racine takes a myth to convert it into tragedy, it is always in a sense to challenge it, paralyze it, make it a fable Roland Barthes, Sur Racine. "Racinian tragedy is one of the smartest attempts ever made to give failure an aesthetic depth: it is really the art of failure, the beautifully twisted construction of an impossible spectacle.