Sentence:  Blanche Stroeve was in the cruel grip of appetite. Perhaps she hated Strickland still, but she hungered for him, and everything that had made up her life till then became of no account. She ceased to be a woman, complex, kind and petulant, considerate and thoughtless; she was a <WSD>Maenad</WSD>. She was desire. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling.