CLASSIC 45A Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Pentheus, Driven Crazy, Maenad
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Idea is how to open up and embrace the other without resorting to violence. The spectator identifies with the masked figure before him/her (symbolic identification of the self with the other: pertaining to how he"s the god of theater (this is a play) In the play, the actor fuses with the character with whom he represents. Idea is you need to make space in yourself for your character (whether the character is male or female: feeling for the other is transcending ourselves, we inhabit their space and suffer with them. Idea: make room in yourself for others, host them. Thyrsus: opens channels of fluids from the earth. In some ways, other religious figures are struggling between face 1 and 2: don"t know what to call a divinity (on the borderline) Dionysus and doubling in the bacchae: heart of play has duality.
