PEACE...

There has been a lot of talk about the representation of peace at the end of the play. Peace is a young, naked girl. The men see peace and begin to almost fight over who will get peace because to them peace has become sex. The men are now lusting after peace because they realize that peace is pleasurable. But then the question is will they really remain on peaceful terms? Do the men really want peace as they fight over who gets what part of peace because they want to spread piece around back home or has peace become a sexual object? If the answer to the first question is no them most likely the answer to the second question is that peace for these men is a sexual object only used to advance their own self pleasures. On the other hand, now these men have become to adamant about obtaining peace that they are fighting over peace trying to take it home parts of peace in order to establish peace in their home towns. I wondered if peace would have been represented in another way, would the men have been less distracted by the sexuality of peace as portrayed by the naked girl. Maybe, if peace was more modest however, the men could do without. Throughout the entire play, peace for these men and women has been sex so it makes sense that peace is portrayed like an sexual object. On the other hand, it is sad that peace is not worth more to then. If peace was not as physically attractive would they be as willing to take peace with them? Probably not. The society seems to be very into surface things such as how their women look and wear. But Lysistrata tried to get everyone to see that not just making love but love in itself is so much more powerful and valuable than the people had realized. They took their love for granted and believed that it would always be available no matter what type of life they lived. Since, society was this way, Lysistrata picked to take away their physical pleasure for a while as an encouragement to dig deeper and realize the beauty and pleasure found in peace itself!