The Bacchae

In The Bacchae, Euripedes depicts Pentheus as an ignorant, obstinate and arrogant ruler. These personality flaws involved his foolish decision and lay the foundation for his tragic collapse. Pentheus blatantly ignored all warnings and incidents and proved that Dionysus was the true god and his death was reached. After all, his mistake is ruthless, and his punishment is merely a thing. Through the script, the audience could not help, I felt cruel about Pentheus. In his first drama, Pentheus did not pay attention to the warnings given to him by Teiresias and Cadmus.

Bacchae is not only the biggest tragedy of Euripides, it is also considered to be one of the greatest tragedies in any age of modern or ancient times. Bacchae is a unique fact, the chorus is integrated into the plot, and God is not a distant existence, but a drama, in fact a role of the hero. One of the explanations of Shanda is that after the critical life of the Greek gods and their followers, the play expresses the religious belief of Euripides, as if the author repented his sarcasm and wrote an honor play about it. People who do not believe in Dionysus will give a terrible warning

Bacchae and Hippolytus dramas have many similarities and differences in character relationships. The similarity between Bacchae's Pechheus and Dionysus and the relationship between Hippolytus's Hippolytus and Aphrodite is the tragedy that God brought to these characters. These tragedies are caused by lack of respect for God. In either drama there is hostility between divinity and humanity. In both dramas God spoke of the opening line and expressed anger about being worshiped. In Bacchae, Dionsysus cursed his mother's sister because he did not believe his divinity. In Bacchae, Pentheus does not believe in the divinity of Dionsyus. Hippolytus has extra parallel lines. Hippolytus did not worship Aphrodite, it led Aphrodite to curse Hippolytus' stepmother, Fadra. An example of the curse of Hippolytus is Aphrodite. "I will punish Hippolytus today.