Cassandra is raped because the Greeks are stronger than the Trojans, and Philomene is raped because a young man thinks he's entitled to her since he saved her city. Your darkness and your sadness make you all the more beautiful. I have to consent. So, you are afraid. I know fear well.
Fear is consent.
You see the god and you accept. Trembling limbs to my fire. So, you say to yourself, these are just stories. If it did not, the audience would have nothing with which to identify or into which project their feelings. There has to be a point of reference, or it's like watching the drama of an alien society for which you have no cultural knowledge.