#I’ve grown more sympathetic to pentheus after a few more readings. He was mad and insecure in his own way

[noctilionoidea]

I can never be normal about the bacchae of form any coherent thought on it. That play saved my fucking life. I owe my happiness to the fucking bacchae

#The bacchae #look man. First story you ever see something reflective of yourself thrive and crush what tried to destroy it? #When you just escaped an improperly prescribed medicine insanity spiral after years of suffering #Scared because you don’t know who you can even be at this point because you’re just not normal and unhappy with the future you chose for yo #I literally sat there. Staring at the finale. #I’ve grown more sympathetic to pentheus after a few more readings. He was mad and insecure in his own way #But he didn’t deserve what his fatal flaw brought to his family #because like omg this is the story of a family that’s been broken. This dynasty is doomed to suffer beyond catharsis #And yet. Dionysos and the maenads were like me. And it made me feel alive #dionysus