Lysistrata And The Peloponnesian War
Despite how sublime men tried to act back then during the Peloponnesian War fighting for greed and ambition, being withdrawn from their animalistic desires instantly popped off everything they had fought in the past. Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (411 B.C.) ended the Peloponnesian War in his own comedic way with women seducing men to stop the war. The demand for animalistic desires of us, humans, is emphasized in the play becoming the only method women could use to influence the outcome of war. While living in an environment with such a significant amount of discrimination against themselves, women attempted a sex strike hoping to gain enough attention from men for the purpose of ending war. Although being a successful strike, we do not see, in
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The comic relief — scene 3 of Lysistrata (411 B.C.) presented how desperate men had become without their wives being at home waiting for their arrival from war (32-37). In the scene, Lysistrata and Myrrhine plotted a tease on Kinesias to display female dominance on men where Myrrhine did succeed drawing all the thirst from Kinesias yet ended up escaping from him. The strike of women generated massive bothersome to both Athens and Sparta men which brought immediate effects to two sides calling together a meeting to discuss on reclaiming their sex life. However, if Lysistrata had not ordered a sex strike at the beginning and where, instead, had demanded women to forfeit something else as a bargaining chip, men could not have sensed the action as quickly as it were sex. For example, abandoning chores such as babysitting and cooking would have less effect on men since they rarely cared at ancient times. Evidence could be found from the same scene where Kinesias was in charge of his baby for six days which he had never washed him once(34). This well shows how crucial sex have been to men as well as how negligible other stuff that women were in charge was to men back then. For this reason, sex should be considered the most effective way on governing men for women and that Lysistrata was wise enough utilizing
The comic relief — scene 3 of Lysistrata (411 B.C.) presented how desperate men had become without their wives being at home waiting for their arrival from war (32-37). In the scene, Lysistrata and Myrrhine plotted a tease on Kinesias to display female dominance on men where Myrrhine did succeed drawing all the thirst from Kinesias yet ended up escaping from him. The strike of women generated massive bothersome to both Athens and Sparta men which brought immediate effects to two sides calling together a meeting to discuss on reclaiming their sex life. However, if Lysistrata had not ordered a sex strike at the beginning and where, instead, had demanded women to forfeit something else as a bargaining chip, men could not have sensed the action as quickly as it were sex. For example, abandoning chores such as babysitting and cooking would have less effect on men since they rarely cared at ancient times. Evidence could be found from the same scene where Kinesias was in charge of his baby for six days which he had never washed him once(34). This well shows how crucial sex have been to men as well as how negligible other stuff that women were in charge was to men back then. For this reason, sex should be considered the most effective way on governing men for women and that Lysistrata was wise enough utilizing