End

The sex left and everyone flipped. Fitst the women didnt wanna do it but they eventually gave in. The men went crazy when they found out. They couldnt overpower their wives because they didnt have the will power or the mental strength did. So the strong Lysistrata overpowered. I wonder whats going to happen next.

Why cant we be friends?

Why are two of the powerhouse in one state fighting. Thisis like fighting your own family. Lysistrata put it best when she told them that they rely on each other for help. Luckily the men had women as strong as their ego's were.

Strong Woman

Wow Lysistrata is such a leader in this play. Not only does she call all these women and get them to obstain from sex, she did it alone. Even in the eyes of savage men she never backed down to them. It is true that Lampito helped her but never the less it was most of Lysistrata's idea. She even got the result she wanted and in less than a day. Thats a string woman.

Why so serious?

The guys are rediculously ticked off. I mean its only sex, i mean its really not that big of a deal. These guys are literally trying to break down doors trying to get to their wives and sex. Can't they realize that there are more important things in life than sex!

Could it?

Do you belive tht if women obstained from sex in todays world the plan would work. I seriously dont think it would. In todays world sex is easily used for things like money, fun, or even pitty. The vaules of the athenians are far more complex and as time passes i believe out values drop lower and lower.

Powerful Beings

Women are the most powerful beings to me. The play proved that women have weapons that are useful, they can control the ways of men. Men have this masculinity and strength, but they also have this deep desire which is sex. Only women can control it and they will when it is needed. This is why they were powerful in the play and they still are til this day.

Any other way?

Could the women have found a better way to prove their point or was it good just as it was? I think something else could have been done. They could have completely left, nade a silent treatment, took away the mens children, or even cheated (even though thats quite drastic). Truly sex is not all thats on their minds, deep down they will eventually feel.

Give me peace!

Peace was used as such a symbol. Besides the fact that her name is the same thing she symbolizes she also has another odd aspect. She comes out unclothed and all the men finally pay attention. Its kind of sad that the only thing that could get a mans attention is a naked woman...kind of resembling sex itself.

Hehe...Sneakaay!

ok Kinesias is all struck and fed up with the fact that Myrrhine is all celibate and all right. So he thinks he's puttin on his lil mojo and shes really playin with him. I mean this clearly shows that when it comes to sex men are really blind becuse clearly she is procrastinating and never actually planning on having any sex with him... So he's jus left clueless while Myrrhine is being all devious and sneakaay.

Anything but that!

lol So the women were led by Lysistrata...strong willed and prepared for what was the happen.. she brings up the plans to the women and they are about to walk out before anything even gets to happen. they are all Anything but that. Once they actually get into it and take the oath its gets to the men and they are already at wits end with the womens actions. They are all liek anything but that also... i jus find it funny that both sexes are so stressed over the concept of celibacy.

Procrastinators Unite Tomorrow

OK.....procrastination is a big issue with me...... man i gotta fix that.....!!!

Hedda over...imagine that lol

WEll wrapping up the book i liked it, well more than the house of bernarda alba. The love triangle within the story, the use of power, and the social hierarchy within the book made it really intresting. Compelling and intresting that kinda kept you guess even tho you kinda knew who was goin to get it. Love triangles, maunscripts, pistols, power, hats, windows..... lol i think im ready to get outta this and move on to Lysistrat!

Is death Freedom?

Between the past two plays we've read death has been the means of escape. Is death truly the means of escape in the social hierarchy? Can you only reach true freedom by dying or is there an alternative that the characters just are not seeing? It seems like when they lose what they have worked so hard for or worked so hard to pursue, they give uo and find that easiest way out....death.

Miss Tesman?

How much power does she truly have in the house. She is all for making Tesman happy and evidently Tesman is happy with Hedda. So she keeps her mouth shut for Tesmans sake or is she truly trying to impress Hedda. When Hedda was given a challenge with Thea later on in the play she eventually fell due to the "lack or power". So if that is true than what if Miss Tesman would have opened her mouth and told Hedda to shtu up sometimes. Would her power over Tesman still be the same?

One crazy chica

Ok so is Hedda jus mean in general, is she power thirsty, or is she bein mean in order to keep order in her life and her house. It surely does keep control over Tesman and Aunt Julie. It half way works with Lovborg until he notices she doesnt run him. But when she reached her last male figure, Judge Brack, it doesnt work anymore. Sho is she jus mean to people that she knows she can control or is it all for power until she reaches something that she can't control.

Triangles are...

This love triangle is sharp lol... I mean you Have Hedda who wants a bit of everybody, Tesman who jus uh and not really together, Lovborg who wants Thea and Hedda, and Judge Brack whose had this secret little crushie on Hedda but waits til the exact right moment until he actual wants to reveal it. I mean.... gosh how tangled can this web get, somebpdy had to get hurt in the end and we all know whose Hedda....took the shot.

Dont play with guns

You get shot! Lovborg dies at the gun of Hedda. Whether someone killed him or not nobody really knows. But this same symbol of power and strengh also becomes the symbol for death in the story. Hedda also plays with the pistols, as they could be her strength and sense of pride sense they are comin from her father. But she plays with guns with the wrong people, sure she can use them with Tesman and Lovborg but she tries to use it with Judge Brack and he takes it right out of her palms. Also taking the power out of her palms leaving her defenseless and now Brack woth the power.

Manuscripts and drinking dont mix

Ok... he looses his head a little bit and gets drunks at a party. Really serious considering he had had been on a pretty good sober streak before this. But the second he messes up and snaps that streak his life takes a big turn and the manuscripts disappear(taken by Hedda). He notices that he has lost something he has worked for all because of drinking.... that one mistake... The maunscripts meant something big to him and when he looses that its like he looses his heart and hope for anything good to happen.

The doormat says Tesman

Hedda walks all over this guy. I dont know if he ever had and power in the relationship prior to this play but it is clear he has non now. He is a man of the house who let Hedda disrespect his mother, lets her walk all over him, and it jus seems like he simply doesnt care! Tesman is a child stuck in a mans body stcuk in the past...lol im mean come on uh.....grow up here..be a man!

Why did she really?!

Why did Hedda really kill herself? A lot of my fellow colleagues say from her loss of power or because she is a wimp. I think that it is a combination of all of thses things. Shes looses her power over everyone. Lovborg dies because of the manuscript deal and the pistol she gives him, she has no type of real relationship with Tesman, Thea is becoming and opposition to her power, and you have Judge Brack who is one male figure that Hedda can not control. Along with this she could be put on trial for the gun givin to Lovborg. I belive all of these put together could cause major distress and leave a person pretty twisted inside.

The puppet master

I see Judge Brack as this master planning guy who slowly schemes his way into the play. He wants to be involved into this love triangle and he also gets himself involved with the pistols finding out that they are Hedda's. Then he eventually becomes Hedda's puppet master and gives her the choice to stay attached to the strings or to cut herself loose and let her fall to his grasp over her.