The playwright wants to illustrate fear to the audience because they fear the anger of Dryas and so he was put into prison for that reason, but maybe sadness as well because of the reason he was send to jail.
According to Hoffman and Bateson, "<em>empowerment</em> is the reverse of ‘doing things by the book.’ <em>Enfranchisement</em> carries this logic even further by first <em>empowering</em> individuals and then coupling this with a reward system that recognizes people for their performance."