and my personal analysis of the play. Dionysus, the lead character of the play was the powerful and headstrong son of a mortal woman and the almighty God of the Sky, Zeus. Dionysus possessed multiple powers and forms that he could express as and when in the play. The common men of Thebes called him by the name of ‘Bromios’ which means the roaring one or ‘Lysios’ which means the God of Letting Go. The gift of Dionysus allows humans to get rid of their troubles through wine, their identities
but instead as a young boy who is rather unpredictable and mythological. To trace back the significance of Young Bacchus, would be to go back to Greek mythology. Bacchus, otherwise known as Dionysus, was the god of wine, joy, and fertility. Much like wine and its unreliable effects, so were the emotions of Dionysus. He was awfully unpredictable with his personality and seen as being either entirely too joyous or extremely bitter. These characteristics are the stereotypical character traits for women
Just like many other authors, Cormac McCarthy uses a lot of intertextuality, or allusions in his work. These allusions are connected with many literary classics like Moby Dick and Paradise Lost etc. Many of these allusions are also connected with the Christian tradition in a direct or an indirect way. Some of the most obvious examples of these allusions can be found in both The Road, which attracted a lot of criticism, among other reasons, because of the amount of biblical allusions; and Blood Meridian