The Enemy
Henry Kissinger once said, “‘Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy’” (“MLA”). The genders will always be tied together in some way because we can’t live without the other half. Women can be single and independent like men with it still being socially acceptable. Women and men have no idea who’s to do what because of the way society has changed. In Lysistrata, a play by Aristophanes, humor is used in characterization to prove the conflict that men and women battle for dominance.
“The battle between the sexes” is referring to men and women fighting for control trying to dominate over each other, they are fighting for the power that exists between themselves. Such as, when Kinesias says that he will consider ending the war later he just …show more content…
Likewise, Kalonika is impatient when saying, “‘Still, I don’t see why all of us are summoned to this place at such an hour’” (28). Lysistrata knows that she can’t ask for the women to abstain from sex right out of the gate, but instead builds up to it to get their approval. This characterization also further adds to the suspense of the conceit of the play, it proves that women need the men just as badly as the men need them. For example, Kinesias explains to Myrrhina, “‘The whole house is getting filthy. No one sweeps it. And the dishes- I’ve piled them up. No women comes to clean’” (91). Kinesias hasn’t even tried to take over the house work, he depends on his wife for ever house chore, showing that both genders need each other and they rely on help from their other half. Most men act like they can’t even attempt to clean or figure out how not to depend on women for their cleaning services. Neither sex will ever give up power to the other gender, no one wants to give up power if they can fight to keep it, and yet they continue to rely on each other
Henry Kissinger once said, “‘Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy’” (“MLA”). The genders will always be tied together in some way because we can’t live without the other half. Women can be single and independent like men with it still being socially acceptable. Women and men have no idea who’s to do what because of the way society has changed. In Lysistrata, a play by Aristophanes, humor is used in characterization to prove the conflict that men and women battle for dominance.
“The battle between the sexes” is referring to men and women fighting for control trying to dominate over each other, they are fighting for the power that exists between themselves. Such as, when Kinesias says that he will consider ending the war later he just …show more content…
Likewise, Kalonika is impatient when saying, “‘Still, I don’t see why all of us are summoned to this place at such an hour’” (28). Lysistrata knows that she can’t ask for the women to abstain from sex right out of the gate, but instead builds up to it to get their approval. This characterization also further adds to the suspense of the conceit of the play, it proves that women need the men just as badly as the men need them. For example, Kinesias explains to Myrrhina, “‘The whole house is getting filthy. No one sweeps it. And the dishes- I’ve piled them up. No women comes to clean’” (91). Kinesias hasn’t even tried to take over the house work, he depends on his wife for ever house chore, showing that both genders need each other and they rely on help from their other half. Most men act like they can’t even attempt to clean or figure out how not to depend on women for their cleaning services. Neither sex will ever give up power to the other gender, no one wants to give up power if they can fight to keep it, and yet they continue to rely on each other