Dionysus In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

On the three walls of the room, there are large-scale figures painted with frescoes, which are believed that depicting the Dionysian ritual. In Greek word, “rite” means “to grow up”. This initiation of Dionysus is the entry to his life. It is a ceremony for insuring a promised afterlife. In the frescoes we can find out that the rites seem to be about preparing the young women to be the mature married women by promoting the psychological improvement. Each part of the frescoes that we see in the Villa of the Mysteries seem to be part of this ritual ceremony of rebirth. They provide us a kind of brief introduction of the rites for the women in Pompeii.