Essay on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata :: Lysistrata

The Lysistrata   Aristophanes was a "craft" hangdy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes usual style was to be too satirical, and suggesting the forthlandish. He shows little mercy when mocking Socrates and his "new-fangled ideas" which were most likely designed to destroy the cohesiveness of federation and lead to anarchy, in his play The Clouds.   The most absurd and humorous of Aristophanes comedies ar those in which the main graphic symbols, the heroes of the story, ar women. Smart women. One of the most storied of Aristophanes comedies depicting powerfully effectual women is the Lysistrata, named after the female lead character of the play. It portrays Athenian Lysistrata and the women of Athens teaming up with the women of Sparta to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War.   To ca-ca the men agree to a peace treaty, the women seized the Acropolis, where Athens financial mi litia are kept, and prevented the men from squandering them further on the war. They then beat acantha an attack on their position by the old men who generate remained in Athens while the younger men are out on campaign. When their husbands return from battle, the women refuse to have sex with them. This sex strike, which is portray in a series of exaggerated and blatant sexual innuendoes, finally convinces the men of Athens and Sparta to agree to a peace treaty.   The Lysistrata shows women acting courageously and even aggressively against men who seem resolved on downfall the city-state by prolonging a pointless war and excessively expending reserves stored in the Acropolis. This in turn added to the destruction of their family life by staying external from home for long stretches while on military campaign. The men would come home when they could, sexually relieve themselves, and then leave again to ride out a senseless war.   The women challenge the manly ro le model to touch the traditional way of life of the community. When the women become challenged themselves, they take on the masculine characteristics and attitudes and defeat the men physically, mentally but most of all strategically. Proving that incomplete side benefits from it, just that one side loses more than the other side.   Its scant(p) to see why fourth century B.