Saturday, November 15, 2008

What does that mean?(it means a penis)

As lysistrata is a sexual play, there are many play on words that are apparent here. These come from the characters lines, actions, reactions, and finally from props, although this will be discussed later. First of all, most of the times that there is a play on words, and you cant really determine what it means, your probably safe in assuming that it means a penis, erect penis, vagina, innocence, or womanhood. These are your go to symbols and hidden meanings. Second, these symbols and meaning are so densly scattered throughout the play, that after some time, i personnally felt at least, that i needed a break from the almost childish nature of the writing. I felt that some of the humor was that of a 6 year old who wrote the plays along these lines... haha poo poo kaka pee pee, penis and vagina, hahahahahahahahaha. I also thought that most of these were funny in the beginning, atleast for about the first 30 of 40 pages, and what was especially funny was trying to discuss these in class without saying anything too vulgar, and thus by trying to expalin it more in depth to avoid embaressment, i ended up bluching beyond recognition. I felt as if this type of humor was forced, and thus lost some of its appeal, atleast to me. Thirdly these references are used to make some of the audience uncomfortable, atleast in our, by comparision, sheltered society. This play was a sexual one, and the fact that there are all these references is used to remind tha audience of this. Overall i though that the plays constant references to erect and flaccide fallices was eventually a little boring and irritatiing, but i appreciate the reasons for this.

2 comments:

Ryu Tsume said...

SO MUCH PHALLIC IMAGRY!!!!!!!!!
anyway, now that that is out of my system. Thank you for the refreashingly simple and blunt language about it. Altogether a very raunchy play over all. Very funny that we read it for an IB class. Seems a little out of place with the rest of the death and suicide stuff.

Ms. D. said...

Roman,
You get the award for best title yet.