ws many cases of black humor. For example, when Pentheus is wearing woman’s dress with his hemline all askew.

The Bacchae opens with Dionysus grieving over his mother’s death. Hera outraged by Zeus’s infidelity kills Semele, Dionysus’s

mus who has killed her beloved son. Heart broken Cadmus is force to tell her that it was her and her sisters. Agave now sees that Dionysus has brought the city to ruins. The play ends with Dionysus appearing and banishing Cadmus and his family from Thebes. Cadmus and his wife, Harmony, were changed into serpents left to roam to earth. As for Agave and her sisters they were exiled. Agave leaves Thebes to go and find her sisters in the mountains where they still roam in ecstasy.

mother, with a lightning bolt while she is pregnant with Dionysus. Hera, however, did not know that Zeus hid Dionysus in the false womb of his thigh. Dionysus was therefore born again. Once he was grown he came to Thebes after he “set all Asia dancing” and proved himself to be a god. He made the women cry of ecstasy and clothed their flesh in the “skins of fawns”. In their hands he put the thyrsus, a spear clothed in ivy. They wore this in memory of his mother. Dionysus has a hatred for his mother’s sisters because they said that a mortal bedded Semele. They said that Zeus “put her to death” for claiming that she was pregnant with his child. For this Dionysus drove them mad into the wild mountains, which is now their home. He dressed them in the trapping of his mysteries. Dionysus wants all of Thebes to know that he is a god and the son of Z!

he was possessed by Dionysus. She reached down and ripped off his arm at his shoulder. The rest of the pack then pounced on him tearing him apart. He body now laid scattered all around, but his mother was holding his head. She thought that it was the head of a lion. Agave then raced towards Thebes with her prize. She is proud of herself because she believes that she has caught and killed a cub of a lion with her bare hands. Calling to her father, Cadmus, she tells him that he can be proud of her because she, a woman, hunted and killed with her bare hands. Agave still not realizing what she has done is praying that her son will someday be able to hunt like his mother. Cadmus realizing that if she ever knows what she had done then she will be beside herself with grief. Slowly Agave’s mind starts to clear as the spirit of Dionysus leaves her. She then looks in her arms and realizes that she is not holding a head of a lion but the head of her son. Confused she asks Cad!

Next he is to wear a robe that drapes to his feet and a headdress. The stranger then calls to the women that the “fish” is ready. Pentheus is going to loose his life. First Dionysus will separate him for his mind and then he will dress him the dress that he will wear to the Underworld. Pentheus will then be killed by the hand of his mother who will not realize what she has done until it is too late. The stranger calls to Pentheus to come out so that he can see him in a women’s dress. Pentheus, curious as to what he looks like, asks the stranger which on of Cadmus’s daughters ho most resembles. The stranger humors him by telling him that he looks like both of them. Pentheus’s mind is now starting to go because he is acting like his is really a Bacchae. The stranger talks freely to Pentheus telling him that perhaps he will catch the Bacchae in their beds if he is not first caught by one of them. At this point Pentheus has now completely lost his mind. The stranger, w!

Pentheus’s messenger, who went up to mountain with him, returns to Thebes to spread the news that Pentheus is dead. He says that first they stopped in a grassy hollow where they sat very quietly. In a green hollow the Bacchae sat their hands at work. Pentheus, however, could not see the Bacchae sitting there, so he told the stranger that he would climb a tall-necked pine to get a better view. The stranger then grabbed to topmost branches of the pine and forced it to the ground and placed Pentheus on it. He then gently placed to tree upright again. Almost instantly the Bacchae noticed him sitting atop the tree

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