First off, I have to say that going through the steps to create a blog are unneccessarily STRESSFUL!! It took me forever to figure out how to start a blog and then having to come up with an "original" url drove me crazy! Sorry for the little rant and now back to World Lit. I do have to say that reading the Bacchae was very fun for me the second time around. I do not know what it was but the humore seemed more apparent than last time. My favorite part is the dialogue between The Stranger and Pentheus. The scene comes off like so many movie scene where someone is tricked into doing something he thinks is his own idea but in reality he was falling into someone else's trap. He was so blinded by his own pride that he did not stop to think of the possiblility that he could be getting set up. My favorite lines are from line 925 to about 934 because it is after he is dressed as a woman and his feminine qualities come out. During these lines I imagine him primping himself in the mirror as he asks how does he look. Also when he says that his hair is messed up because he was dancing like the woman was hilarious to me because before the thought of him doing anything close to that would seem absurd, but I guess, like Dionysus said, Pentheus gained more courage as a woman than as a man. And for the record, I know everybody else in class felt bad for him, I can't really say that I did. I mean I am sure that it sucks to get ripped up (and by your mother no less) but I only felt a little sorry for him. And comparing him to Jesus, or that one guy who gets his liver eaten everyday, and saying that he died to save mankind is a little off for me because it seemed like he only truly cared for himself and if given the choice I am sure he would have chosen to save his life rather than mankind. That is all for now