The conflict between the rational and the irrational is present in every person or situation. In Greek tragedies this conflict is constantly present in the actions and decisions of the characters. Usually, there is always one character who will act rationally compared to the others and try to resolve the conflict. Both The Eumenides and The Bacchae describe the conflict between the rational and the irrational, but the act and the resolution are presented differently. While the Eumenides portray him killing the family by committing matricide and murder, the Bacchae portray him killing the family by committing an unconscious murder driven by the desire for the forbidden. The most powerful characters of the Eumenides, starting with the Furies, everything about them has a meaning. The Furies think of Orestes as a horrible person and are determined to capture him for committing matricide. They do not symbolize peace, but revenge; they represent the application of the law without any further agreement. The Furies demonstrate this at the end of the play, where they comply with a gift from Athena to stop arguing about what the solution was. Apollo is another important character who symbolizes revenge and order. By commanding Orestes to kill his mother or suffer the consequences, Apollo symbolizes the desire for revenge and the order of rights. He believes that avenging the death of the king (Orestes' father) and placing Orestes as the rightful heir to the throne is the right thing to do. Since it is traditional to leave the throne to the son rather than the wife when a king dies, Apollo wants to impose this order. He doesn't let Clytaemestra reign, for a queen who kills her husband and sends...... middle of paper ......th Semele, leading to Dionysus' desire for revenge which resembles Clytaemestra's motivations. He wants his mother's family to pay their debts, thus unconsciously getting the women drunk and later tricking Pentheus into going to see the forbidden. In this tragedy Euripides aspires to demonstrate how even the desire to see the forbidden can deceive the most rational man. Both the rational and the irrational play a role in each person's decision; it is the way in which you decide to act when faced with a situation and demonstrate which side you tend to favor. Whether like Pentheus, a rational man deceived by his “inner Dionysus” commits an irrational act that takes his life, or like Athena, who introduces a neutral process that rationally decides the consequences and severity of the conflict when all that when a a conflict arises and neither side sees it the same way, there should be.