Sunday, November 16, 2008
Lysistrata 3
Where is the world is Lysistrata's husband? This really intrigues me, as we see no mention of any interaction between Lysistrata and him, whomever he may be, in the play. You would think that Lysistrata would have told the women when first using the plan that it would work citing her own vow for abstinence as an example. We are given no clue as to his occupation, his part in the war, or even his siding of the war. I can assume that Lysistrata is Athenian, and therefore so is her husband; however, when the other women are complaining about missing their husbands during the day when they are fighting in the war, Lysistrata says nothing about missing her husband, which leads me to believe she could care less about having him at home with her again, and would merely like to see one of her master plans succeed. Lysistrata is not even characterized as her colleague housewives that care about their weavings getting unwoven and changing the babies. Come to think of it, Lysistrata doesn't have any kids from we we see. Isn't it a bit wrong for her to urge these women with far more obligations than herself to give up their lives to stop a war? Hmm, Lysistrata just became my least favorite character.
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I was wondering the same thing. How can the main character running a protest on abstinence not have a husband present or at least some other male figure. At least that way we could see more struggle in the play.
Well he is present in this play but very little...He is in the scene about Myrrine, he is the man at the cave who almost get sex, and then his lover runs back into the Acropolis.It's weird that he was rarely mentioned
that's so true!
I guess that means Lysistrata wanted to use abstinence because she knows she will be able to abstain and therefore not break the oath or the protest. What a conniving woman. She just ensured that no one would call her a hypocrite or use her as an excuse to break the oath.
yeah, i just assumed that she had no husband, but the idea makes no sense because it would be almost impossible to survive in that society without a husband. No one would listen to you, no matter how good the idea was. It is odd that she would feel no pain in abstinence, but all of the other women would because they have husbands to pleasure them.
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