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Dionysus in the Bacchae - Coggle Diagram
Dionysus in the Bacchae
Main character with having the first line
Prologue, monologue (speaking before, speaking alone)
Immediately sets up his origins and is proud of it (similar to epic hero)
"I, Dionysus, son of Zeus"
Relationship with Pentheus
Immediately establishes rivalry with him
Expects him, enforces his immediate superiority
Invokes possibility with his power as a demigod
Challenges Pentheus' hubris (and hence threatend him)
Enforces the peripeteia
morals and motives
Part of Dionysus coming back to Thebes is because that's his nearest place
believes that mother suffered a "crime"
pity with his motives but is only respected from his role as a God
Condemns Pentheus for upholding Thebes' morals and hence denying Dionysus' existence
heroic quality with motives?
Maenads
All from Thebes
Particuarly focuses on Agave and Autonoe with how they condemned Dionysus' mother
Power to drive women with just mind
Enforces how Gods had power that overpowered maternal love
Coming of age s a god
Seen in the Exodus
causes Pentheus' anagnorisis
Supposed to invoke terror amongst the audience
Peripeteia enforces how Gods will react without lack of worship
Example of losing morals in society
Divine machinery
Modern scholarship
"God who throughout the play promises joy will at end produce suffering and horror"
"Profunfly ruined citys social structure" (Morwood)
Associated with theatre, and goes back to what bacchic rites are about