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lysistrata
Title: lysistrata
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 405 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
lysistrata
The Satire of Lysistrata
In Aristophanes’ play, Lysistrata, the Greek city-states were constantly warring one another. While the men were off fighting in the wars, the women were left at home to do all of the work themselves. One of the Greek women, Lysistrata, was so tired of being left at home while her husband was fighting in the war, she called all of the other Greek women in for a meeting. Lysistrata had a …showed first 75 words of 405 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 405 total…She says that women would handle things better than men. The Greek women think they should at least be involved in the affairs concerning Greece.
In conclusion, Aristophanes uses a satire to show the importance of the Greek wars in a comical sense. To get his point across he adds humor to the play. Everyone enjoys comedies and I believe that people can get more out of something that is make interesting for them.
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