These are quotes I found of
Portrayal of women in Lysistrata by the women's standards:
[Lysistrata] "Utter sluts, the entire sex! Will-power, nil. We're perfect raw material for Tragedy, the stuff of heroic lays. "Go to bed with a god and then get rid of the baby""--that sums us up!
"We'll paint, powder, and pluck ourselves to the last detail, and stay inside, wearing those filmy tunic that set off everything we have--and then slink up to the men."
"A horde of women, armed with househole articles, begins to pour from the Akropolis."
The portrayal of women by the men's standards:
[Commissioner] When Lysistrata says she's saving the men, "You will save us?"
"Might I ask where you women concieved this concern about War and Peace?"
[Lysistrata] "And my husband, with his customary glare, would tell me to spin my thread, or else get a clout on my head."
"What Athens needs is a man."
[Commissioner] "I categorically decline to shush for some confounded woman, who wears--as a constant reminder of congenital inferiority, an injunctionto public silence--a veil! Death before such dishonor!"
All these lines demonstrate how the men and women view the role or portrayal of women in Lysistrata.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
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2 comments:
i really love that very first quote....its so true that lotsa men take women for granted....we're just good lays. u see it in movies, hear it in songs, and its glorified on the streets....its effed up.....
True dat! We should change that lol.
Another strike perhaps? :)
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