The Bacchae

Throughout Euripides’ tragedy The Bacchae, there are many themes and symbols that allude to a deeper and more philosophical meaning to the play. This play is extremely complex, in an attempt to break it down symbolically, it can be argued why the symbolism and themes presented are philosophically important. Wisdom and recklessness, the unknown and the exotic, the foreign and the divine, the battle between the sexes, and civilization versus nature and hunting are some …

…at some point in their lives, in order to keep their sanity. Pentheus represents a tragic case of what happens to a man when he rejects beauty and happiness. There is a distinct battle between the forces of saying how one should or should not live. We must learn from Dionysus, because there are many people in the world today who choose to live as Pentheus did, and their lives too, are short-lived. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**