Quotes From The Play 'Lysistrata'

“Amerlia Earhart once said, ‘Women, like men, should try to do the impossible, and when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others." What this quote mean is that women should try to change the world and if they don’t succeed then another women can try to succeed it. The definition of a modern American woman is someone who is determine, confident, fearless, and not afraid of failure.

A modern American woman has to be determine and not let others influence her so easily. The word determine means having made a firm decision and not willing to change it. Like the saying there is no force more powerful than a woman determine to rise. The reason determination is important for a women is because they don’t let their husband or family stop them from chasing after something they want. A woman who is determine will do anything in her power to chase her dream or goal. Once a women is determine she becomes unstoppable and nothing can get in her way from achieving her goal.

In the play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes the women who shows real determination is Myrrhine. In the play, all the women have agreed to abstain from having sex with their husbands in order

The reason she doesn’t meet this characteristic of a modern American women is her lack of confidence with herself and in her marriage. She notices her husband’s looking at other women and confront him but lets it go, because she doesn’t want any problem. An example of Frances not begin confident is when she tells her husband, “I'm good for you," Frances said, pleading. "I've made a good wife, a good housekeeper, a good friend. I'd do any damn thing for you"(Shaw 7). Here she is trying to convince herself that she’s as pretty as the women her husband's stares down. Then she’s telling him the reason why he should love her which show’s she has zero confident in