Okay so I think the United Nations Preamble totally copied Lysistrata. Everything discussed in this play as a means in which nations can support each other is written more colloquially in the preamble.
However, I do think that the theme of United Nations doesn't appear in as many parts of the book as it should being as how the women in wanting peace were calling for this kind of national unification. Which makes me wonder if the "power" of this theme is diminished when Lysistrata when trying to convince the men of how powerful they have been together brings up past wars and the eminent one against the Persians. If we're uniting nations shouldn't we being doing in the international arena as well as the domestic one? By urging Grecian men to unite in order to fight yet another war wherein they are killing other men who have wives who probably feel as badly about the war as they do, are they really uniting at all?
Is unification still effective even if it's done to annihilate another group of people? Should we proud of Franco and Hitler because they were unified? Should we be proud of any country involved in WW1 or 2?
Friday, November 14, 2008
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Posted by J'mag at 5:12 PM
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hm. that's a really good question posed at the end. i think we can commend even the worst of people for being a good leader. i think they were good leaders in organzing the people and giving them what they want but hitler did also kill over a 6 million jews so i don't really think you can say anything good about them.
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