Medea And Lysistrata Analysis

Medea and Lysistrata are two women who both feel that women in general are ill-fated. They individually attempt to rectify their own misfortunes by seeking their own form of justice. Lysistrata felt that men were only prolonging the war with their pigheadedness. Medea, however, feels that she has been played dishonorably by Jason, causing Medea to wreak vengeance upon Jason in any way she can and anyone within reach is fair game. Both women individually plot and scheme to achieve their desired results.
Lysistrata seeks desperately to put an end to the devastation brought on by the war. There are many ways Lysistrata could have gone about this, however, it would have altered the spirit of the play. Aristophanes makes fun of women, but he also
For instance, when she was being pursued by Aeëtes, she killed her brother and dumped him into the sea, to slow down her pursuers who then had to stop and bury him. Then, while she was in Iolcus, she tricked king Pelias’ daughters, into murdering him. When Jason divorces Medea and exiles both her and their two children for the more attractive and higher positioned Glauce, daughter of Creon, king of Corinth, Medea explodes with rage and ends up killing Glauce, Glauce’s father and both of her own children; which makes her gleeful at having so thoroughly hurt Jason that she barely feels remorse at having committed infanticide.
The difference between Medea and Lysistrata is that Lysistrata is more lighthearted in her cunning and seeks to do well by the people with her hilarious and often disruptive actions, making her tale more of a comedy. Though it is still sexist, it is more evenly distributed between the men and women, with the men often being made the butt of the joke, in this case by their very manhood, while the women take a larger and more energetic role in the plot. The comedy is in the way the conflict is resolved by ridiculously silly and outlandishly stereotypical