Power of the Sex – Lysistrata and The Toy Cart

Lysistrata is anything but helpless and weak. Her will and heart so strong and willing that she was able to unite

Has gender issues really changed from how they were in the past? Much of the stereotypes present in the past still remain now. In many instances women are still thought to be lesser than men. This is reflected through jobs men and women obtain and the difference in salary that they make. It is also reflective on tremendous amount of sex that influences our lives everyday. Sex is everywhere – ads, television, books, internet, etc. Everywhere you look women are being used as sex objects to sell products or ideas. Women have more options now. They could even perform in plays and have say in society which has only been around for only a couple of centuries. It used to be that only males could do these things – even play the part of women. Even so women’s status and influence on society today is dramatically different from what it was in the past. We are moving away from King Shudraka thinking to a more modernized Aristophanes philosophy. The enduring pain of women of the pass sets the foundation for women of the future.

all of Greece and try end the Peloponnesian war. She was probably the one of the first heroines in literature. Aristophanes portrays Lysistrata as a woman who despises all the stereotypes that women were given by men but she actually fits one of them perfectly – deviousness. She plots and schemes in order to resolve what she deems to be problematic, in this case the war. Lysistrata exploits women’s sexuality and uses

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