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Role of Sex in Lysistrata
Title: Role of Sex in Lysistrata
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 975 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Role of Sex in Lysistrata
Women and Men in Lysistrata and the Role of Sex and Reason
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 …showed first 75 words of 975 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 975 total…presented in its role of human sexuality and fertility. The concepts of sexuality and reason, both departed at times by both men and women in Lysistrata, are eventually returned to their normal position in the human nature. Without the sexual content and the absence of reason in men and women, the play would fall solely on the historical context of the war and would never have become the most successful comic drama written by Aristophanes.
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