Appetite as seen in Lysistrata Appetite is featured prominently in Aristophanes' Lysistrata. While men in the play are driven to war based on greed and geopolitical ambition, women are also portrayed as solely being driven by their desires. Moreover, women's withholding of sex from men functions to end the conflict, revealing the power of men's sexual appetites and their need to satisfy animalistic desires. It has been posited that the play is suggesting that the best way to govern humans is to
Comedy is differentiated based on the time period it was written on and how one interprets it as well. In Lysistrata, written by Aristophanes, Aristophanes explores the issue of the Peloponnesian War by writing the story in the form of comedy to get his anti-war message across. He also criticizes society and tries to improve it. Aristophanes uses high comedy to show many different topics about war, social class barriers and peace between the Athenians and the Spartans. He also uses low comedy in
in many of the ancient Greek plays, a play could highlight or emphasize certain themes in a play by changing the typical structure of the chorus. When comparing the choruses of two classical Greek plays—Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Lysistrata by Aristophanes—one can grasp how the function of a chorus could vary from play to play, and can also vary depending on the themes prevalent in that play. In Sophocles’ Oeidpus the King, the chorus is presented in a fashion that seems more typical to
Gender role is defined by many as the set of social and behavioral norms that are widely believed to be socially appropriate for the mortals of the specific gender. Although this definition encompasses a great deal of most people believe today, it offers a hidden meaning that only when we look deeper we can begin to analyze it. In our democratic land of opportunity, women are still making 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, although the numbers vary depending on the sources from which these data