Lysistrata

Lysistrata In the Greek society, the ideal of comedy was formed from the cognitive idea of “this couldn’t happen.” This form was used in the play, Lysistrata, to illustrate this point. Such pessimistic ideas were the sexual content, women as leaders, and a female controlled society. The idea of sexual control to end a war was far fetched. That by women abstaining from sexual intercourse with their men and denying any such relationships with them that the war between Athenians and Persians would be ceased. This war would have happened with or without the women anyways and would continue till a victor arose from battle. This is shown true by the length of the war and by the treaties that were continuously rejected by Greece. The ideal that was conjured by Lysistrata was one of great ludicrously thought for the social rules of the Greece. Women during this time period played the part of the housewife. Cooking for the men, caring for the children, and attending to the household duties was their main objectives. Women would not have dared such a bold overthrow of social roles. Secondly, Lysistrata in a role of power, commanding the women as if she were women, men, war, story, lysistrata, time, sexual, during, comedy, society, period, idea, greek, era, true, social, reader, point, never, household, happen, gets, ending, democracy, control, athenians, acropolis, within, situations, role, reason, pessimistic, outside, one, last