Sex and Politics in Lysistrata Aristophanes‚ whom is a comedic writer‚ wrote Lysistrata during the Greek civil war. This unstoppable combat was between Athenians and Spartans‚ whom believed that the only way to prove anything was through war. The theme of Lysistrata revolves around gender‚ sex‚ and also politics. Its reasons for development were that if men were not able to fix the problems occurring‚ women would then take the initiative and do so. The women then came together and decided to withhold
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Rom-coms The genre I have chosen for my film studies documentary is rom coms. I have chosen this genre because I enjoy watching them and it’s a type of film that interests me. Rom coms are usually light hearted and generally focus on romantic ideals. An example of this romantic ideal is true love overcoming all obstacles. The main feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled. They are usually focused around a similar plot – two characters are
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Lysistrata: Feminist Leader of Power or Failure? I want you to think about a very important female figure in your life. She can be any person you want‚ fictional or nonfictional. Now‚ take this person and think about why and how she influences the way you live today. It could be because you admire her‚ you relate with her‚ or you see her as a leader. Not everyone can be a leader but those that are made to be one have specific attributes that make them who they are. Although there are many sides
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Mid-way through his life and faced with an ignominious end‚ Dante Alighieri wrote his greatest work‚ The Divine Comedy. We can understand Dante’s motive in writing this epic by reading Cantos I through III of Dante’s Inferno. The Divine Comedy was a self-analysis by a man who found himself spiritually lost. Immediately in Canto I we see that Dante "the character" is lost on a spiritual level. He awakens mid-way through his life in a dark woods severed from both light and human connections. Dante
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southern Greece’s Peloponnesian Peninsula. Religion‚ politics and popular culture all play a part in understanding Lysistrata‚ a play that was written to explain the ending of this war. In the play‚ gods and goddesses are referenced constantly and the people did what they had to do to make the gods happy. In Athens;
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In the play‚ Lysistrata‚ the women of Athens learn of Lysistrata’s plan to withhold sex in an effort to bring her husband back from war. The Athenian women decide to unite and implement Lysistrata’s plan in an effort to regain their own husbands and sons. In Aristophanes’ work he demonstrates his view of women as being cunning and resourceful beings yet at the same time comedic without even trying: The women make meeting to conspire plans‚ the women make themselves luscious to attract the males
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Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is an excellent example of satirical drama in a relatively fantastical comedy. He proceeds to show the absurdity of the Peloponnesian War by staging a battle of the sexes in front of the Acropolis‚ worshipping place of Athena. Tied into all of this is the role of sex and reason and is evident in the development of some characters and the lack of development in others. Although the play is centered on Lysistrata‚ the story is truly propelled by the ideas of sex and reason
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Title Stand-up comedy industry Thesis 1: From an industrial organization point of view‚ the stand-up comedy market structure in the 1980s can be characterized as an oligopoly “The structure of a market‚ thus how a market is functioning‚ “ is the concept behind the industrial organization theory”. The Industrial Organization (IO) theory is about‚ how a structure of a market has an influence on the strategy and decision making of a company.” 1 The theory therefore focusses on the market wherein
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World Civilization 1 Lysistrata When Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata he gave a new perspective on the role women played in Greece. He empowered women during a time when women had very little say in society. Of course strictly fictional‚ Aristophanes writes about how women could end the Peloponnesian war. After years of war‚ Lysistrata comes up with a plan to bring peace. Through her knowledge and wit she rallies the women from Greece to deploy her plan. Lysistrata stays calm in heated arguments
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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
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