Lysistrata 4

I don't get the whole chorus thing that is featured in the book. Actually, I'm pretty sure the book could do without talk of weaving as a song. I realize that in theater there are choruses that often push the storyline along, but in the case of Lysistrata, they are merely background knowledge that does not help further the storyline at all. I understand they may serve for entertainment purposes, but I honestly just skim through the parts instead of analyzing them like the dialogue between the women in the Akropolis and the men. The chorus scenes are pretty funny, I must say, but the first scene is quite dull and I wanted to shift through it as quickly as possible until we actually discussed it in class. When we did, metaphors for the qualities of men and women were discovered, the fire pots of the men signifying the passion that was burning for the women, and the women's buckets of water that put out the fires and doused the passion of their men. The contrast of the two was impeccable, especially since the women were trying to stay pure as water and resist temptation (fire.) Past that example, I see no reason why the choruses are even relevant.