In Euripides' drama, however, the convective state of female servility does not serve as the primary impetus for the Bacchic transgression, as the bacchants are all possessed by Dionysus in his vengeful scheme to vindicate his mother's honor. Accordingly, any act of revolt or resistance undertaken by the Bacchae is automatically qualified and dismissible, since madness mediates the impulse to break away from patriarchal roles in The Bacchae. The trope of possession is often symptomatic of a power disjunction between the possessed and the non-possessed because, as Ross Kraemer has observed, those who are possessed "usually occupy a 'peripheral' place in the social structure, namely, women... The system of possession thus serves to redress some of the grievances of oppressed women in male-dominated societies." Ultimately, however, the "grievances" of the Bacchae remain unredressed because of the presumably discrediting fact of their possession. Hence The Bacchae ultimately stacks the proverbial deck against the bacchants, suggesting that their transgressive triumph is fated to be not only unsuccessful and unsustainable but grounded in fantasy, delusion and madness.