Lysistrata Themes,”Women and Femininity: First look at women in ancient greece from a comedy aspect. we get to see their daily lives and women are shown to love sex but be willing to holdout unlike men.Sex: this play has the most sex of any other, jokingly about sex with men walking around with erections, but in a funny matter. the use of sex is for humor but also has a useful side, it links sex and politics during the time period and in current day. Men and Masculinity: men are not willing to give into peace until they realize they cannot have sex
one of the main male instincts. at first they don’t want to be overpowered by women but come to their senses later. males are portrayed as fool and women as smart and intelligent.Power: the women take over the power from the men by holding off from sex they end a massive war.”