Lysistrata, Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace in Athens, which has been at war for eighteen years. The opening scene of Miller’s Death of Salesman, the spectator sees Willy, who, throughout his life, has constructed elaborate fantasies to deny the mounting evidence of his failure to fulfill his desires and expectations. At the beginning of the play, Willy suffers from self-delusion. Elizabeth