Lysistrata: A Comedy of Stereotypes

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English

 

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Sophia S

 

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May 19, 2012

 

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Aristophanes was a crafty writer; he creates a work of art that causes his audience to think about the current state of affairs in their city. He points out that there is a major threat to Athens when all the good, young fighters are sent off to war. Aristophanes achieves this aim by using stereotypical characterizations of women to show how utterly defenseless Athens is without their young men at home...
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His message is a bit subliminal in nature but still a heady one. Aristophanes realized that audiences don't come to plays to be preached at but to be entertained. To this end, he uses comedy and comical characterizations to delight the spectators/readers. The principal form of comical characterization he depended on was stereotyping...
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