The plays Antigone and Lysistrata contain similar aspects that end up also being their differences. In these plays the protagonists are women, Lysistrata and Antigone, who are both resilient and courageous women who challenges the gender roles of their time. In the time period of when these two plays were written, women basically had no basic rights they were to follow proper concepts expected of a woman of that age. However, in these plays when these roles were challenged, one ended tragically while the other ended with expected results and it’s of course, because each of the protagonists took different routes to achieve what they wanted to accomplish.
What these plays portray is when is it alright for a woman to communicate when she has no…show more content… Her rebellion along with other women were to abstain from having sex so that the war would end quickly. In contrast from Antigone, Lysistrata’s plan wasn’t rash, she thought of any impending consequences of her plan. Lysistrata understood that by executing her plan the consequences with her husband could be calamitous and she knows this when she says, “Then you must submit— but do it grudgingly, don't cooperate. There's no enjoyment for them when they just force it in. Besides, there are other ways to make them suffer. They'll soon surrender. No husband ever had a happy life if he did not get on well with his wife. (Aristophanes, p. 11)” Lysistrata knew that by implementing her plan there was a chance she would gain physical abuse from her husband and at the same time get raped by her husband, but then again she knew that by her plan her husband would get tired of the charade and would find a way to end the war because both parties would have to be pleasured to have great sex. Additionally, even knowing these consequences Lysistrata would continue with her plan just so that she would save the city of
