“The Ying and Yang of Oedipus and Lysistrata”

It was the great Physicist, Isaac Newton who once deducted that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. Similarly the concept of Ying and Yang states that for harmony to exist, a person should have a perfect mix of light and dark, good and evil or triumphs and tragedies. Therefore, when trying to compare and contrast the themes of Oedipus Rex and Lysistrata, readers should analyze them both with a Ying and Yang state of mind. Both these plays seem to share three main characteristics. They both embrace, the concept of fate and the willingness to ignore the truth, the relationship between love and war/hate, and both plays also have a very masculine Protagonists who basically lead and manipulates most of the people of the play.

In Lysistrata the concept of fate is the main driving force behind the entire plot of the play. Lysistrata (the protagonist of the play) is an Athenian woman who is sick and tired of war and the treatment of women in Athens. Lysistrata gathers the women of Athens and Sparta in order to try and come up with a reasonable solution top end the current times and war a repression of women. This rebellious display supports the fact that the wom

Oedipus Rex clearing asserted his masculinity and authority in all his actions. Firstly he proved his her authority when he left the city of Corinth so as to avoid coming face to face with his dreadful fate. Secondly he displayed his masculinity when he killed his blood father and most of his guards at the road intersections near Thebes. Finally Oedipus proved his masculinity and power to rule once he had become King and Thebes and ruled over his people with and iron fist.

In Oedipus Rex the drama is built around a similar, yet slightly different concept of faith. The story of Oedipus Rex takes the form of a tragedy. The play is basically centered on a prophecy that the son of Laius (ruler of Thebes) would murder his father and have sex his mother. This son would later turn out to be Oedipus Rex. Fearful of the prophecy the king had his son sent far away from the kingdom to be murdered. However through a series of events Oedipus had not been murdered. Instead, Oedipus was adopted by Polybus (the king of Corinth), were he grew up under the impression that he was the son of the king and queen. The day Oedipus heard his unthinkable fate from the oracle, was the day he refused to accept it. Oedipus refuse to accept his fate, and as a result, fled Corinth in order to break off all ties with who he thought was is blood mother and father. His act of exile from his loved ones bears a resemblance to the actions of the women of Lysistrata. Further in the play Oedipus also refuses to accept the truth. The truth that he did murder his father and was sleeping with his mother. After analyzing both dramas it is quit evident that the themes of, fate and, the willingness to ignore the truth play a major role in the in sculpting the plot of these plays.

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