Lysistrata seems like it's a thoroughly entertaining play.
Set in Ancient Greece, I think it can also be applied for some of today's conflicts as well. Not to take away from possible future blog posts, I'll only address the characters I found in the first 30 pages. Lysistrata appears to be a strong-willed Athenian woman who wants her ends to be achieved. Stressing the need for unity in their effort to abstain from sex, Lysistrata is a natural born leader, so unlike her female colleagues. Even the older Kleonike is unwilling to commit to the cause, and I think that's hilarious because she seems to actually enjoy sex more than a stable country and having her husband home every night. Doesn't she see that if he was they could, "you know" every night. The thing about Lysistrata is that it is no holds barred, so no bar is going to hold me for these blog posts either. Lampito, the simple minded Spartan with the lovely body is portrayed as a country bumpkin by modern ideals, and that interests me very me in the radically different portrayals of Spartan and Athenian women. Hopefully the women's cause is not unfounded. Yeah, I'm jumping around a lot, whatever.
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Ashley I formally invite you into the colloquial realm of blogging. You sound so formal and what not. But I like your character analysis of Lysistrata it's very "poppin'" as you kids say.lol.
And I hope they cause is not unfounded as well. Does that make sense? It's late and my comments have become illogical <--- I think I just made that word up.
But I think Lamputo is a leader just as much as Lysistrata is. Lysistrata is Barack Obama to her Joe the Plumber/ Sarah Palin
Yeah, I didn't like the way that the Spartans were portrayed, as opposed to the Athenians. Seeing as how Lampito was the first to understand the importance of the strike that Lysistrata was suggesting, I would say that she's actually smarter than the other Athenian women, who (as you mentioned) seem to care more about sex than their husbands' safety.
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