To make the men agree to a peace treaty, the women seized the Acropolis, where Athens' financial reserves are kept, and prevented the men from squandering them further on the war. They then beat back an attack on their position by the old men who have remained in Athens while the younger men are out on campaign. When their husbands return from battle, the women refuse to have sex with them. This sex strike, which is portrayed in a series of exaggerated and blatant sexual innuendoes, finally convinces the men of Athens and Sparta to agree to a peace treaty. The Lysistrata shows women acting bravely and even aggressively against men who seem resolved on ruining the city-state by prolonging a pointless war and excessively expending reserves stored in the Acropolis.
Synopsis: Impatiently waiting for the women of Athens and Sparta to arrive, Lysistrata plans to discuss the war between the Spartans and the Athens in front of the Akropolis in Athens. While she is waiting, she rants about how women might not show up because they lack organizational and structural power and responsibility, but her rant gets interrupted by Kleonike, her neighbor who is older than her. Kleonike tells Lysistrata that all that women possess is beauty and glamour and those characteristics cannot possibly end the war. However, Lysistrata claims that that is exactly the key to ending the war. As Kleonike gets fascinated by Lysistrata’s idea, two groups of women led by Myrrhine and Lampito (Spartan) enter with Ismenia and Korinthian.
This play took place in Greece during the Peloponnesian War and Lysistrata, an Athenian woman, wishes to end this war. Gathering up the women of Greece was the first step Lysistrata took to reach the katharsis. She wanted to end the war and she needed supporters in her cause. A goal will surely be reached with the right planning and organization, and Lysistrata knew she could not achieve this on her own. Moreover, what can one woman of Athens do by herself?
Media: Medea is married to Jason but Jason wants to forsake her for his political growth .When Media comes to know of this she decides to wreak havoc on all. She does not even think about Jason who she loves her dominant thoughts are revenge. The love disappears and is replaced by a compounding rage on Jason. Her threat of anger sends a threat to the king Creon who banishes her from the state thinking that this anger will upset the peace of his state . Medea begs of the king to give her a day to put her affairs in place and the King agrees.
After Aunt Tam fought and “resisted with every bone” (186) in her body, she runs away, symbolizing the rise of women. The resistance given by Aunt Tam shows the strength within women and the lack of credit given to the gender. Aunt Tam, showing her resistance, proves the ignorance Vietnam has towards feminism. The Vietnam government tried to “…mask their own terror” (25) in order to cover up their tracks. A few methods to stop oppositions of feminism, as seen in the novel, were to silence them.
Compare the ways the poet presents ideas about relationships in Sister Maude and Farmers Bride. In Sister Maude Rossetti presents a quarrel between the two sisters. This is shown when she says ‘but sister Maude shall get no sleep’; this suggests that she thinks her sister will go to hell because of what she has done. The fact that she doesn’t use a personal pronoun for her sister suggests that she has disowned her and believes that she is no longer part of the family. The phrase ‘no sleep’ is a euphemism for death and suggests that she will pay for what she has done.
Finally, she admits to her nurse and confidante that she loves “the son of that Amazon mother” (Kline 264). Years before she demanded that Hippolytus be exiled because of this same love for him. Rather than dishonor herself, she has Theseus banish him. After much discussion with both her nurse Oenone and her lady-in-waiting Panope, Phaedra decides to confess her love to Hippolytus and suggest an alliance for the throne. Hippolytus is appalled by this confession and forgets his sword in his hurry to leave her presence.
Norse women were allowed to divorce her husband if he mistreated her and her children, he was not an ample provider, or he offered insult to her family. Critical Thinking Questions 1. Early in the unit, you learned that women warriors are always on the side of good. Do you believe that a woman warrior could be on the side of evil? Justify your answer.
Antigone says that griefs are “handed down” in Oedipus’s family, implicitly comparing grief to a family heirloom. In her first speech, Antigone seems a dangerous woman, well on her way to going over the edge. She knows she has nothing to lose, telling Ismene, “Do you know one, I ask you, one grief / that Zeus will not perfect for the two of us / while we still live and breathe?” Before we even have time to imagine what the next grief might be, Antigone reveals it: Creon will not allow her brother Polynices to be buried. Ismene, on the other hand, like the audience, is one step behind. From the outset, Antigone is the only one who sees what is really going on, the only one willing to speak up and point out the truth.
The Aunts teach the Handmaids at the Red Centre about how women are now protected and respected. In reality, Gilead is turning women against women. The girls at the Red Centre are supposed to testify about their past lives, and when Janine confessed she was raped, the other Handmaids didn’t sympathise with her at all but were forced to condemn her that the rape was Janine’s fault because she led them on. And Offred admitted that “We meant it, which was the bad thing”. The condemnation might have started out because they were forced to but eventually the Handmaids enjoy comdemning each other.