Essay on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata :: Lysistrata

The Lysistrata   Aristophanes was a "craft" comedy poet in the fourth carbon B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes usual style was to be too satirical, and suggesting the outlandish. He shows little mercy when mocking Socrates and his "new-fangled ideas" which were most(prenominal) likely designed to exterminate the cohesiveness of society and lead to anarchy, in his play The Clouds.   The most ill-advised and humorous of Aristophanes comedies are those in which the main characters, the heroes of the story, are wo hands. Smart women. wiz of the most famous of Aristophanes comedies depicting powerfully effectual women is the Lysistrata, named after the female lead character of the play. It portrays A accordinglyian Lysistrata and the women of Athens teaming up with the women of Sparta to force their husbands to mop up the Peloponnesian War.   To make the men agree to a heartsease treaty, the women seized the Acropolis , where Athens monetary reserves are kept, and prevented the men from squandering them further on the war. They then beat back an attack on their position by the experient men who have remained in Athens while the younger men are out on campaign. When their husbands return from battle, the women refuse to have kindle with them. This sex strike, which is portrayed in a series of exaggerated and clamant sexual innuendoes, finally convinces the men of Athens and Sparta to agree to a peace treaty.   The Lysistrata shows women acting bravely and even aggressively against men who seem obdurate on ruining the city-state by prolonging a pointless war and overly expending reserves stored in the Acropolis. This in turn added to the destruction of their family vivification by staying away from home for long stretches while on host campaign. The men would come home when they could, sexually relieve themselves, and then vary again to continue a senseless war.   The women ch allenge the masculine berth model to preserve the traditional way of life of the community. When the women become challenged themselves, they tackle on the masculine characteristics and attitudes and defeat the men physically, mentally but most of all strategically. Proving that neither side benefits from it, just that one side loses much than the other side.   Its easy to see why fourth century B.