Lysistrata Research Paper
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 to one story, I believe that these attributes are the main nine that are used create a leader: awareness, decisiveness, empathy, accountability, confidence, optimism, honesty, focus, and inspiration. Out of these nine attributes, the first five are the most important. Since Lysistrata had these traits in her character,
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To remedy this situation, Lysistrata told the women about her plan. “Well then, we must abstain utterly from the prick,” she tells them (Aristophanes 193, ln.121). In other words, she is telling the women to follow her and have a sex strike because, of how much it would impact the women’s husbands. Lysistrata tells them that she knows that the men will eventually give up when she says, “If we should sit around, rouged with skins well creamed, with nothing on but a transparent negligee, and come up to them with our deltas plucked quite smooth, and, once our men get stiff and want to come to grips, we do not yield to them at all but just hold off, they’ll make a truce in no time. There’s no doubt of that,” (193, ln. 148- 152). This mean that if they weren’t gettin sex, then would surely follow their wives orders in order to have sex again. In addition, the women would also go take over the Acropolis so, these soldiers wouldn’t be receiving any more money to continue fighting. Lysistrata tells Lampito not to worry about the
To remedy this situation, Lysistrata told the women about her plan. “Well then, we must abstain utterly from the prick,” she tells them (Aristophanes 193, ln.121). In other words, she is telling the women to follow her and have a sex strike because, of how much it would impact the women’s husbands. Lysistrata tells them that she knows that the men will eventually give up when she says, “If we should sit around, rouged with skins well creamed, with nothing on but a transparent negligee, and come up to them with our deltas plucked quite smooth, and, once our men get stiff and want to come to grips, we do not yield to them at all but just hold off, they’ll make a truce in no time. There’s no doubt of that,” (193, ln. 148- 152). This mean that if they weren’t gettin sex, then would surely follow their wives orders in order to have sex again. In addition, the women would also go take over the Acropolis so, these soldiers wouldn’t be receiving any more money to continue fighting. Lysistrata tells Lampito not to worry about the