" This way I will cause him greater torment than anything. And you others, go through the town and track down the womanish stranger, who infects our women with his new-fangled disease and pollutes their beds. Once he is caught, bind him and bring him here to face the penalty of being stoned to death, after seeing a painful end to his revelling in Thebes."
(Bacchae, line 350-356)
The reader can see that Pentheus is a man and we can see is human side, including his desires. I will not say that he is attracted to Dionysus but I do feel that he is somewhat connected to him. I feel like he does not want feeling and desire out because that would bring chaos, so he tries no destry it, and because he has feeling toward dionysus he wants to get rid of him too
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