Bakkhai :: Classics

Bakkhai- Pentheus did not die within the house simply his cadaver atomic number 18 takeninside at the end- Bacchic bounce is the imitation of nymphs, Pans, sileni andsatyrs a form of mimesis- Dance as an aid to the spectators and in writing(p) clarificationcomplex metres of danced choral lyric vs. simple rhythms of sunglyrics, suggesting this complexity with its resolutions, contractionsand shifting rhythms, was first ghastlye possible by the interpretative tycoon of dance- After Pentheus has departed for the mountains, the mood of thepersecuted Lydian Bacchants is one of vengeance//strophe-refrain-antistrophe-refrain-epode- hold back calls for Justice to kill Pentheus, and the epode calls uponDionysus to manifest himself in his true form strophe visualizes face on Mount Citihaeron, while antistrophe is a credo of the refrain- supreme metre is dochmiac (short long long short long), a metreassociated with intense excitement- Strophe and antistrophe can be described in four soundments movewithin A from Pentheus to the vision of Agave, and within her fromPentheus to the vision of the chorus correspondences are mimeticallyprecise1. Lines 1-5 Strophe evokes the hounds of Madness running to theBacchants in the mountain and biting Pentheus Pentheus in female garbstarts to spy. Antistrophe evokes Pentheus going to the Bacchants onthe mountain with a mad resolve, the madman attempts the impossible.The movement depicts running, the Bacchic orgy, and Pentheussmadness.2. Lines 6-8 Strophe represents Pentheus being seen by Agave.Antistrophe is syntactically obscure but is concerned with the idea ofdivine punishment. The movement represents a human being watched bysomeone stronger than a human, and the emphasis shifts from watched towatcher.3. Lines 7-9 Strophe represents in direct speech the shout of Agavethat someone has came. Antistrophe represents creed of the chorus Ireject rationality. I enjoy in the hunt. Other, greater, clearerthings This is a reality de clamation about something seen, and thegestural action is deictic.4. Lines 10-12 Strophe, Agave pronounces this is no human but is of alion or a Gorgon. In antistrophe, the chorus cerebrate that they willreject an unjust way of life and reverence the gods. The focus shiftsfrom what is seem in the vision common humanity is contrasted withthe divine or demonic- There is no way that an audience could grasp the mean symmetrywithout the medium of dance, which generalizes the concrete narrativeof the strophe and concretizes the abstract lang of the antistrophe in site to draw action and thought togetherIdea of illusion internal/outside* Tragic process puts blatant pressure on the go about of themasculine self in order to bring out that insistent pressure on