ambiguous and vague plays

After watching Widowers' Houses, a critic, finding the play too confused and vague, commented that he couldn't make head or tails about Shaw's intentions than he could about a tomcat's. Likewise, I find Euripedes' intentions vague in The Bacchae. Does Euri promote a rational (occidental) way of thinking or an emotional (oriental) one? Teiresias, usually the voice of common sense and wisdom stands on the side of Dionysus the god of wine, but Pentheus opposes this stance. Pentheus is punished in the end by meeting a horrible death, by having his head decapitated, a thing becoming and typical of Greek tragedy and present-day Moslem terrorist groups. Agave, Pentheus' mother, a devout Dionysian, celebrates the festivities of Dionysus. Agave, nonethless, is equally punished when she discovers that the head she had stuck on the spear she was carrying was not the head of a cub but her own son's. Only King Lear when realising his folly in giving up the kingdom to his two daughters that he asks "Can anyone tell me who I am", and Don Quixote, when in the end, looks at himself in the mirrors the knights held to his face do we come across such a moment of recognition which Joyce called epiphany

Plato rejects altogether wine and its god in his Republic because he considered wine to be an oriental, therefore, a barbarian invention and practice, a practice, like poetry, whose substance is wholly irrational, a thing totally anti-Platonic

It is curious that Mohammed, too, dismisses wine and poetry