Dionysus Transformed-Essay on trasformation of Dionysus from Euripides "The Bacchae"

It is understood and recorded that in nature and the real world many people, animals, and objects undergo tremendous transformations shaping their outcome in life as well as the views of others. These transformations are prompted by many things such as environmental changes, physical changes, or emotional changes. Other times, the transformation is a result of oppression or threats to one's character or persona. In the play The Bacchae, written by Euripides, Dionysus is the …

…Bacchic religion. His rituals and everything he stood for were ridiculed, therefore causing him to manipulate, enrage, and brainwash the women of Thebes and their ruler, Pentheus. Dionysus' savagery had a purpose, however horrible. The transformations humans undergo in the world today are somewhat similar, prompted by many unfortunate events and circumstances. It is these transformations, good or bad, that truly shape a person and the way others see them. <Tab/>