Lysistrata

Lysistrata

Lysistrata is a comedy written which contains the various comic word to describe multiple events in the comedy. As for the play, it has uses in numerous ways in which is seen not only illustrating various aspects but also can be used in the modern political understanding in politics. The Lysistrata is a comic view which illustrates women’s role in the family as well as in society. The play also shows the classical force and the emergence of the Oligarchy of Athens.  It concentrates its view on women’s contribution to society and their political aspects.

The context of Lysistrata plays a significant importance in feminist movements. This movement falls under the roles in which the women play in this play in society. The movement reinforces by the sex idea gives a valid reason for how this play enhances feminism based on the era in which the play was created. The feminist movement would be hard to impose. Humor imposed on what the play makes fun of the need for women to have men around, and their desperate nature has imposed through the revolution based on the sexual strike to revolve into feminism. This is through the organization by the women for the women’s rights and their need for their interests to be put into consideration (Vaio, 1973).

It has led to the formation of a movement called the Lysistrata project, which has influenced modern society on putting foremost the equality and the women’s needs. These movements were to help women to have political opinions. This movement’s role in the play was to show how women were not allowed to have any political view or say hence denying them a voice of their own. The movement was to help women to be more engaged in governmental practices and also participation. This provided platform to air out their ideas as equal as to men’s (Stroup, 2004).

The Lysistrata play is considered as a political satire because it contributes to condemning politicians, policies as well as the public figures in politics. The women of Greece deny their men sex as a result of being tired of the political war in Greece. This format was one of the movements which modern-day uses in the boycott to ensure their voices heard. As for Greece, women used this practice to demand attention for their voices to ]be heard. In the current political aspect, the boycott can be used in demand for women’s rights and also shift attention to their political interests.

The female character is motivated by the Lysistrata to play on different conspiracy actions unto what they allow the men to see in women. According to the play, a woman is seen as a sexual object and a family tool alone. On this, the women tend to utilize the male sensibility to end the war in Greece. However, as Aristophanes was specifically writing for the male audience, the emergence of women’s power is one of the critical perspectives to challenge his views on women’s roles, and their political stand.

Aristophanes passes the panorama of the Greek in which is outlined in a humorous way to the society. Moreover, the parliamentary meeting and the overview of the Greek government show the culture in the parliamentary operation. The functions performed by the magistrate with his followers to perform various punishments on stage is a view on their intended operations (Henderson, 2011). the factors come hand in hand on what can all relate with wit the current functions in these institutions. A description where is clearly outlined at night in the temple of Aesculapius gives out an overview of the modern hospitals. Various scenes bring about the modern setting of various modern events as funeral and hysterical of women as well.

In conclusion, the satire used in this play has played various roles in modern politics and can still be of effect in 2020 political aspects. The overview outlined in the play mocks the Socrates as well as other political practices which can as viewed in today’s political issues.

References

Henderson, J. (Ed.). (2011). Lysistrata. Hackett Publishing.

Stroup, S. C. (2004). Designing Women: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and the” Hetairization” of the Greek Wife. Arethusa, 37(1), 37-73.

Vaio, J. (1973). The Manipulation of Theme and Action in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 14(4), 369-380.