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it's because you're always on that god damn bacchic ritual!!

*insane voice* the bacchae is fundamentally about the inability to separate yourself from your body. cadmus and tiresias are old and feeble - although they feel young and strong again through dionysus, they cannot achieve that state of youth again. likewise pentheus, no matter how he dresses or holds himself, is unable to change his body, and unable to hide it when dionysus reveals him as a man to the maenads - his body is the thing that dooms him from the start. dionysus takes on a mortal guise, but at the end of the play he breaks free from the limitations of the human form to reveal himself as a god. the mortal characters have no such freedom. at every turn they are trapped and confined by their bodies.