man suffering and the courage of a hero who resists the inevitable. Pathos, or melodrama, is acceptance submissively or without comprehension of misfortune. These ideas were found in Aristotles Poetics, the work from which our appraisal of tragedy was found. Aristotle, also notes the tragic flaw in the hero (Patai 5). This defect of character and inability to understand a situation creates his resistance, and makes him to accept his fate. The audience identifies with the hero and feels pity or fear, but the catharsis of these feelings leaves the audience exalted.Greeks included Dionysus in art form too. He usually depicted as a bearded youth, wearing a crown of vines with grapes. Often he holds the thyrsus (a wand fertility symbol) and a cup of wine. He is accompanied by Maenads. These female devotees, pictured with tambourines and swirling drapery, express physical abandonment. He is also associated with a goat like deities (Satyrs, Silenus, Pan) who play pipes for the Bacchic rituals.Dionysus became one of the most important gods in everyday life. He became associated with several key concepts. One was rebirth after death. Here his dismemberment by the Tirant and return to life is symbolically echoed in tending vines, where the vines must be pruned back sharply, and then become dormant in winter for them to bear fruit. The other is the idea that under the influence of wine, one could feel possessed by a greater power. Unlike the other gods, Dionysus was not only outside his believers, but also within them. At these times a man might be greater then himself and do works he otherwise could not (Bonnefoy 31).We can compare the festivals that was made in honor of Dionysus to our Easter.The festival for Dionysus is in the Spring, when the leaves begin to reappear on the vine. It become one of the most important events of the year. It is focus became the theater (Jung 30). Most of the great Greek plays were initially written to be perform...
