Vengeance is Mine!

              Dionysus must have been pretty spoiled growing up to go as far as he did when things did not go his way.  In any case, he had Pentheus’ demise all worked out from at least the point when Pentheus puts him in jail.  Even though Dionysus knew that he could easily get out and no harm was done to him, he thought it only just to levy a rather harsh punishment on Pentheus and his family.   This may perhaps to an extreme degree reflect the irrational tempers of mankind, who often desires vengeance upon all those who are at odds with them.  Euripides catches the irrationality of Dionysus rage through taking the passive and rational figure of a mother and causing her to commit crimes that made me want to listen to church conference talks to clear my head.  I hope that everyone who feels like Dionysus gets some psychiatric help.