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The Poet and the Women by Aristophanes

p. 102). As this indicates, Mnesilochus humor is low-brow, earthy and very funny. The crux of the plot soon comes out as Euripide...

Literary Self Determination in Women and Sexuality

-- but to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to sign a treaty. It is the women, therefore, who actually end the war. Rea...

Dying a Slow Death by Blankets - Lysistrata

thing. CLEONICE (wearily) And is it thick too? LYSISTRATA...

Feminism in Shakespeare and Aristophanes

This paper examines various forms of feminism seen in two works by Shakespeare's, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Aristophanes', Lys...

Classical Literature and Women

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

Chaucer, St. Luke, Aristophanes and Their View of Social Issues

even screenwriters who disguise them as interesting stories. The original Star Trek was great at teaching these moral lessons whil...

Women in Odyssey and Lysistrata

also notes that even when she met with her husband near the end she still did not run into his arms, remaining cautious and loyal ...

The Violation of Athenian Social Norms and Lysistrata by Aristophanes

their worthiness within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence speaks volumes about the inherent fortitude that co...

Donne and Marvell on Seduction

This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...

3 Works on Women's Social Role

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso

physical and emotional well being for the sake of his art. His erratic behavior became increasingly evident around 1575 when Tass...

Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman”

When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...

Segregation, Determination, and the Poetry of Langston Hughes

In six pages this paper discusses the poet's narrators without gender, how he uses women, and how African American determination d...

Issues in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

In five pages 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton is analyzed in a discussion of such issues as the poet's perceptions of women, Satan,...

Analysis of 'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas

In three pages this poem is analyzed in its depiction of loving women, the life cycle, death's inevitability, and the loss of inno...

Analysis of 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways' by William Wordsworth

This paper presents an analysis of the poet's feelings for a young woman as expressed in William Wordsworth's 'She Dwelt Among the...

Frost and Longfellow

theme in that poets verse. Section 1 When Longfellow was born the nation was less than fifty years old. America was in the proce...

Oedipus and Lysistrata: Tragedy and Comedy

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

Oedipus and Lysistrata: Women

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

Drama, Aristophanes, and Plato

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

The Message of The Clouds by Aristophanes

indication of satire must be seen in the name and the role of the Clouds, these are women that take the place of the goods, who ar...

Two Greek TextsThucydides' “Athenian Thesis” and the “Unjust Speech” in Aristophanes' The Clouds

by, at least, a millennium. For them, they are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social or...

The Clouds by Aristophanes and Apology by Plato

another thing: ? young men of the richer classes, who have not much to do, come about me of their own accord; they like to hear th...

Serious Humor in the Plays of Aristophanes

In a paper consisting of nine pages the seriousness of Aristophanes' comedies 'The Birds' and 'The Clouds' is considered. Seven s...

Literature and Human Relationships

sense one gets at the end of the work, that under the humorous aspects, there is something very sad occurring. It does appear that...

Historical Literature and Family Dynamics

In five pages this report examines how family dynamics were portrayed in epic literature in a consideration of Sappho's poetry, Ar...

Plato's Symposium and Euripides' Hippolytus on Eros or Love

In six pages this paper examines the Greek concept of eros or love as it is portrayed in these works by Plato and Hippolytus with ...

Perceptions of Socrates by Plato and Aristophanes

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

The Clouds by Aristophanes

art of argument. He is a lost cause at the school and he is deemed too stupid to really be taught this fine art. He then sends ...

Comparing Blake's "Lamb" to Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz"

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...