Pentheus

Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. Many of the Greek dramas have similar concepts, one of being duality. Without duality, the nature of our lives and the environment around us remains unbalanced. Pentheus and Dionysus represent a factor of duality. For example, they both battle against each other to prove their point as leaders. Pentheus has just become the new king of Thebes and would like to gain power of his people. He seeks to rule over with rationality and social order. Whereas Dionysus is the youngest of all

I consider my own mortality quite often. There is a lyric in the musical Hamilton that reads, “I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory. When is it going to get me? In my sleep, several feet ahead of me?” I remember first hearing this lyric and feeling that it was the only words outside of my own thoughts I had connected with in a long while. Over the past few years, I have been forced to reckon with my own mortality more than I believe useful. I have witnessed much death throughout these

Euripides’ play, The Bacchae, brings into perspective the Greek god, Dionysus. The play focuses on Dionysus wanting to establish his divinity in the city of Thebes, “Therefore I shall prove to him [Pentheus] and everyone in Thebes that I am god indeed” (47-49). As it can be seen here, Dionysus seeks to substantiate his divinity in the city that originally rejected him right from the get-go. He demonstrates this divinity through a very unique pathway, that pathway being vengeance. This course of vengeance

When comparing the “Thrymskvitha” text with the “Pentheus” text, one is able to take note of similarities in the circumstances of each passage, as well as similarities between the “characters” involved. If one is familiar with the “Thrymskvitha”, then they know that Loki, the god of mischief, steals Mjolnir, the hammer which belongs to the god of thunder, Thor, and gives it to Thrym, the Jotunn king. The giant king, in turn, wants Freyja, the goddess of love, to give him her hand in marriage. Freyja

The two plays Everyman by an Anonymous play write and The Bacchae by Euripides both have main characters that have selfish desires that involve the public joining them in their own journey to fulfill their own greed. In The Bacchae Dionysus is the protagonist, a selfish demigod who wishes to enact his revenge for the slandering of his and his Mother’s name. In Everyman the play revolves around a character named Everyman, who represents the everyday men and women, and his or her selfish wish for someone

Hippolytus vs. Pentheus When arguing the statement, the character of Pentheus in the Bacchae is portrayed as earning his fate, whereas the character of Hippolytus in the Hippolytus is portrayed as an innocent victim of the god, I must both, agree and disagree with it. I would definitely agree with it on a shallow point of view, but would have to disagree with it upon dissecting both the stories. The stories tell of Hippolytus being killed for something he did not do, while Pentheus was killed

sexual love, is actually the god he says he is. This is Pentheus’ demise. Dionysus chooses to castigate the willful young king by driving the women of the city into a bloodthirsty turmoil, including Pentheus’ own mother. In an intense and violent scene, she leads the other women in ripping him limb from limb, too deranged to see that it is her own son being killed. However, the story that leads up to this is full of encounters that show where Pentheus went wrong. To avoid a tragic demise according to Euripides

Oedipus and Pentheus are both tragic Greek characters who help create their own endings. Through their character's flaws and blindness to what is going on around each of them, the story develops. The only consistent character in both plays who is able to understand past and present dangers is Teiresias, the blind prophet. Oedipus thinks his human powers can match anything put in front of him. He forces other characters to tell him things, which again creates his tragic ending. (O790) Oedipus

History and Literature 1 Dr. Susan Applebaum Can Pentheus be considered as a tragic hero in The Bacchae? To simply state it, The Bacchae is a crazy play. It is a funny yet gruesome tragedy written by Euripides that tells the myth of how Dionysus, god of wine, came to Thebes to revenge the city for no longer worshipping him. He then in disguise, meets Pentheus the king and after several arguments, Dionysus tricks Pentheus into his death. Pentheus in The Bacchae is technically a tragic hero, but

Dionysus and Pentheus personalities clash. Pentheus refuses to acknowledge that Dionysus is a god, which is made clear in the first passage “he’s dead, burnt to cinder by lighting”. This passage also shows the audience what Pentheus thinks about people who express their natural desires openly through Bacchae worship “Sir I am ashamed to see two men or your age with so little sense of decency”. By using language such as “ashamed” and “decency” he is showing his distaste for such behavior. Pentheus sees Dionysus