So this movie came out this year and it has Jada Pinkett Smith, Meg Ryan, and Debra Messing in it and it relates more to The House of Bernarda Alba than it does this play because the entire movie has no men in it and it is pretty much a story about womyn for womyn staring well...the subject. And while watching this movie I realized that most of the conflict while created by men is between the womyn and so I applied this to Lysistrata and I was like whooa!!
It got me thinking if the theme of The Battle of the Sexes is one that has two opossing sexes or if you could simply apply this theme to the womyn. You could just as easily classify the womyn in this play as warring factions as you could the two armies. Initially they have different opinions and fight over who is right and how they should handle the situation at hand. Also the older womyn who claim to be more experienced are afraid to some extent of the younger girls among them who many fear their husbands will settle for in their absence.
Yes their is an obvious conflict between the men and the womyn but their is obviously some in fighting which I think completely changes the nature of this undeclared battle
Friday, November 14, 2008
The Women
Posted by J'mag at 5:42 PM
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yeah, i agree with that. the women do have some internal conflict going on as can be seen where the women are in the acropolis and they are all like i'm pregnant and i need to leaaave but lysistrata is all noooo, hoe, and makes them stay in there. so there is some dissent among the women but not as much as there is between the men and the women.
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