Lysistrata Characters: Lysistrata - Lysistrata is an Athenian woman who is sick and tired of war and the treatment of women in Athens. Lysistrata gathers the women of Sparta and Athens together to solve these social ills and finds success and power in her quest. Lysistrata is the least feminine of the women from either Athens or Sparta‚ and her masculinity helps her gain respect among the men. Cleonice- is the next-door neighbor of Lysistrata and is the first to show up at Lysistrata’s meeting
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described as a desire to change that situation. In the play Lysistrata‚ women have absolutely no political rights. There is a war going on and one woman wants to put and end to it. It is my opinion the character Lysistrata can be viewed as a modern day feminist. She takes charge in the self-titled play and claims that war shall be the concern of Women! It is too important a matter to be left to men‚ for women are it s real victims. Lysistrata wants to end the long war for it is taking a toll against
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The different portrayals of female characters Antigone and Lysistrata illustrate the fundamental nature of the proper Athenian woman. Sophocles’ Antigone allows the reader to see that outrage over social injustices does not give women the excuse to rebel against authority‚ while Aristophanes’ Lysistrata reveals that challenging authority in the polis becomes acceptable only when it’s faced with destruction through war. Sophocles and Aristophanes use different means to illustrate the same idea; the
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Lysistrata “There is no beast as shameless as a woman” Aristophanes was a craft comedy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes’ usual style was to be satirical‚ and suggesting the eccentric. The most absurd and humorous of Aristophanes’ comedies are those in which the main characters‚ the heroes of the story‚ are women. Smart women. One of the most famous of Aristophanes’ comedies portraying powerfully capable
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Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata provides the audience with a comedic relief to one of the more pervading themes of war and peace‚ while also highlighting the empowerment of women. The setting of this play takes place during a time when war was customary and fighting between countrymen was familiar. Aristophanes wrote the play during the Peloponnesian War when Athens and Sparta were engaging in continuous battles that weakened supplies and destroyed cities. Athens unfortunately was suffering a great
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predominant issue that can be seen throughout history and in literature. In the comedic Greek play‚ “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes‚ both women and men are characterized by stereotypical thoughts; that men are the providers who have authority‚ and women are wild‚ impractical caretakers of the household. There is one though‚ who defies some the stereotypical thoughts of women‚ and that is Lysistrata‚ a strong‚ cunning‚ intellectual women who devises a plan to end on ongoing war that has left all the
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Lysistrata is a play about female agency in 5th century BCE Greece. What makes the sources of its humor different from those in The Acharnians or The Clouds? What comic truth does it try to convey that makes it different? Is the woman’s revolution it depicts permanent or temporary? Lysistrata is Aristophanes’ peace play‚ Compared with Acharnians and clouds‚ the protagonist of this play is a woman. Angry with the way men have devastated Greece through their love for the war‚ she arranges a group
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The story‚ Lysistrata by Aristophanes has been a major influence on many literatures because of the ludicrous comedy and ton of sex puns. The movie‚ Chi-Raq used many elements from the original play to create a modern version of the story. Even though both stories were created in different ways‚ there are also similar because of the many references that were still original content. There are many interesting similarities that are different in both works. One of the similar elements in both the playwright
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(Della Gatta). Remarkably then‚ Antigone and Lysistrata both feature strong and assertive titular heroines‚ despite the androcentric culture in which they were were conceived and performed. Rather than challenging the patriarchal organization of society‚ however‚ these plays reinforce the slanted male characterization of women as inferior because men performed all of the roles and because Sophocles and Aristophanes wrote their plays for an entirely
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Lysistrata a classic greek comedy written by Aristophanes‚ who is considered to be the greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy and the one whose works have been preserved in greatest quantity. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC‚ Lysistrata is a comic account of a woman’s extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying all the men of the land any sex‚ which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata‚ a middle-class Athenian housewife‚ plans a
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