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Why on earth do men think we’re smart and cunning and capable of anything and everything?” To the modern reader, Aristophanes disempowers women because the comedy suggests that the only power women hold is their sexual identity when they present themselves as the idealized women. Although Lysistrata is a woman, she devises a plan that exploits women as sexual objects, “I’ve discovered that the salvation of the whole of Greece depends upon us, upon our tits and clits!” Her plan insinuates that the only way for women to help in government is by promoting their sexuality, not their creativity, intellect, leadership, etc. While Lysistrata explains the wool metaphor, she switches from talking about women to what men should do to properly run Athens.

War and peace, a struggle still plagues society after 2,400 years makes Lysistrata relevant to the audiences today. New Zealand director

Lysistrata changes the traditional, demeaning roles of females. During ancient Greece, the women for the most part were submissive and obedient in society. The women often endured many hardships within their marriage and social life. The women in the play are uncertain and reluctant to Lysistrata’s plan but they eventually agree to the plan. The

Up until this point in the essay, I have talked a lot about how Lysistrata is very innacurate about how Greek women were shown how to behave in Greek society during the classical era. However, this play does have some situations of actual truth to it about how both women were viewed in Greek society and the Greek society as a whole.

Lysistrata is an extremely powerful and influential woman in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. She is the fearless

People in similar circumstances may react in totally different ways, leading to different outcomes. While the main characters in both stories are from the same economic class, Lysistrata and Nora deal with their problem differently. The protagonist Nora Torvald from “A Doll’s House”, a new comedic play, lives semi-wealthy life compared to the other female characters but leads a difficult life because of society has dictated her role as Torvalds’s marriage partner. Lysistrata from Aristophanes play struggles against the women’s part in the Peloponnesian War but fights against concepts of their society. The similarities and differences in both stories can be seen through these issues: the sacrificial role of women and the personality of both protagonists.

Yet, are there any depiction of women’s political ideas? Simply, Lysistrata answers the commissioner who asks her how she is going to bring a peace to Greece by telling him that it is analogous to weaving, “[s]ay the yarn gets tangled: we thread it this way and that through the skein, up and down, until it’s free. And it’s like that with war. We’ll send out envoys up and down, this way and that, all over Greece, until it’s

“Lysistrata” is a tale which is centered around an Athenian woman named Lysistrata and her comrades who have taken control of the Acropolis in Athens. Lysistrata explains to the old men how the women have seized the Acropolis to keep men from using the money to make war and to keep dishonest officials from stealing the money. The opening scene of “Lysistrata” enacts the stereotypical and traditional characterization of women in Greece and also distances Lysistrata from this overused expression, housewife character. The audience is met with a woman, Lysistrata, who is furious with the other women from her country because they have not come to discuss war with her. The basic premise of the play is, Lysistrata coming up with a plan to put an

Fascinatingly, two dramas can be so diverse all because of one aspect they both contain but differ in. Written during the 5th century in ancient Athens. Antigone and Lysistrata both are two important, popular plays that contain a main character that was female. Although they can both be seen as very similar, they do differ in many ways. The most important difference between Antigone and Lysistrata is that Antigone has a community that does not approve of the main character’s plans and although they feel sympathy for her, they take the opposing side, while Lysistrata has a society of people that come together to help the main character achieve her goal. This difference is important because the community’s actions play a tremendous role in the overall outcome of the play and the way the original viewers, who were only men, felt when the play finished. The conclusions and the feelings brought forth by the drama indicate the style it was written in, tragedy or comedy. An ending with a death, leaving an audience feeling sorry creates a tragedy, as an accomplishment from something completely unrealistic would create a comedy. Antigone’s community does not involve themselves with her decisions which leaves her to fight by herself. Furthermore, this influences her tragic fate and leads the male Athenians watching to feel sorry for Antigone but unresponsive of her personal choices. In Lysistrata, the community joins Lysistrata and accomplishes to stop a war that was going on during

Aristophanes is offering the audience a look into a re-imagining of socio-sexual dynamics, and looking forward in the spirit of peace and cooperation in order to counter pro-war sentiment. The war was devastating for the Athenians and it seems that Aristophanes wished for the end of hostilities between the states, a wish that was impossible at the time of his writing of this play. This play concerns the right and just way to settle disputes, and the author uses the younger women as an example of the type of thinking the men of Athens should avoid, while the older women are imbued with a resolve and organization that is more indicative of the positive qualities the men should exude. The Athenian women knows their families have a much better chance for survival when justice prevails.The play opens with lines that lampoon the idea of female authority, “Smart enough that the salvation of Greece lies in the women's hands!” (Reader 173, l. 29) The titular character insists the domestic sphere's women have the power to influence political and military decisions and outcomes is prominently figured; Lysistrata notes, “Whether the Peloponnesians become extinct...and all the Boiotians annihilated...but if the women gather here...(Boiotian and Peloponnesian) together we'll be able to rescue Greece! (ll. 32-36) The young wives are set opposite

Lysistrata, written by playwright Aristophanes creates a play with an acute political satire and a comedic mayhem about one woman’s remarkable mission to end the Peloponnesian War. In all, woman, Lysistrata, ends the war is by convincing all wives to withhold all sexual privileges from their husbands. Thus forcing their husbands to end the war with peace. In this comedic play many themes are highlighted throughout the scenes. One theme in particular spoke of the Peloponnesian War and how this war between Athens and Sparta was a senseless waste of lives, money and energy. As one of the women, Myrrhine, tells Lysistrata that she doesn’t know why her husband is at war or no clue what he’s doing; Lysistrata says,

The characters presented the most impressive visual component. Lysistrata was portrayed perfectly as a down-to-earth woman who has had enough of war and is willing to lead a revolution to end it. Most of the rest of the women are portrayed as being frothy little things, more interested in clothing, shopping and sex, interests which Lysistrata feels that she can employ to bring about the change in the men’s attitudes. The costumes on the main characters evoked the image of the time, and helped to define the characters. Both the members of the female chorus and the male chorus are dressed in white, to keep them separate in our minds from the main

Aristophanes’s play Lysistrata is about a sex strike and describes women working around their inferior status in society to fulfill their primary duty to their country by putting other duties to the side to persuade men to end the war. This illustrates the duties of both women and men with an emphasis on the duties of the woman while also detailing a few key differences between genders. While these duties and differences are described throughout the entirety of the play, the interactions of Lysistrata, Myrrhine, and Kinesias in scene five illustrate them with clearer detail. This implies that while women may be inferior citizens in a society, they have loyalties and responsibilities, and they prove to be intellectual, rational equals to male citizens.

Amidst a tumultuous climate of political unrest and twenty-one long years into the Peloponnesian War, Lysistrata was first performed in Athens in 411 BCE. Written by Aristophanes, this anti-war comedy tells the tale of one woman 's strategic undertaking to make peace. Lysistrata, translated as “releaser of war” or “army disbander,” harnesses the power of the Greek women by persuading them to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of driving the men toward peaceful negotiation. This text not only serves as insight into the roles and relationships between genders, but also as both a cutting political satire.

Lysistrata has challenged male authority in a bold way. This is a complete turnaround from the place in which Greek women were said to hold in their society. In this case, women stereotypes are proven wrong as women are shown as the opposite of being submissive and flaccid, the opposite is true as women are shown to be defiant.