Sunday, November 16, 2008
The End?
At the end of the play the Athenians and Spartans declare peace. They end the war to end the abstinence. Will they really remain at peace though? If they just ended the war so they could have sex again, will the peace last? If sex was the reason they ended the war then is there REAL peace. Who is to say that they wont start another war and if they do will the women use the same protest. So in all I am asking.....was it worth it?
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i don't think it was worth it. ultimately, i think the whole male mindset, as portrayed by aristophanes, it geared toward defending their homes and their wives. they only stopped fighting when those things were gone, and when they come back, it would stand to reason that they would just pick the war back up.
So your saying that they ended the war due to the male stereotypes in the play. I can see that. I also think that they will just start fighting again. But then what?
I sense that war will prevail again and the women would have to come up with another scheme in order to prevent it. War was stop due to the male's urge's for sex...eventually those urges will dissipate and war will rise.
If the war does rise again though, can the women use the same tactics to stop it?
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