Comparing The Killing Of Children In Medea And Bacchae
Another example of the killing of children is the horrific and gruesome events that take place nearing the end of the play, involving the characters Pentheus and Agave. Possessed by Dionysus's powers Agave the sister of Semele slaughters her own son Pentheus along with the Bacchae by mutilating his body and decapitating his head. By the end on the play she has returned back to the palace with her son's head in her arms boosting that she has killed a Lion however to only realise that she has killed her only son. The Bacchae relates to Medea by playing on the Killing of children through a mother committing an unthinkable crime of murdering her own child. As seen throughout these two plays Euripides made the conscious decision to portray women