rgive someone who sacrificed the people and their freedoms for his own gains. Lysistrata was fighting for different reasons and issues. She wanted the war to end. Her plan was for the good of her community but mostly for the individuals who were left at home to care for the cities and the affairs of the land while the men were fighting each other. Lysistrata came up with a plan to make the men come home and the war to end soon. She gathered all the women she could, from both Athens and from Sparta and told them that the only way was to abstain. She wanted the women to abstain from sex. She said to the women; We can force our husbands to negotiate peace. Ladies, by exercising steadfast Self- Control - By Total Abstinence...From SEX (pg. 360). Lysistrata realized that since the women were waiting for their husbands to come home and excited and ready to sleep with them at the husbands mere suggestion of it, why should the men stay for longer than to receive immediate satisfaction and pleasure. Lysistratas plan was for the women to (pg. 362):Paint, powder, and pluck ourselves to the last detail, and stay inside, wearing those filmy tunics that set off everything we have- and then slink up to the men. Theyll snap to attention, go absolutely made to love us- but we wont let them. Well abstain. I imagine theyll conclude a treaty rather quickly. She wanted to tease the menfolk and make them realize how foolish their actions have been. She wanted peace so that they could be home and stop the needless killing. She wanted a better and real domestic life. She didnt like the fact the men were fighting and taking the boys that she had given birth to to fight. She wanted her husband to be home and see him daily. She wanted to be a family and the war wasnt allowing that to happen. She was sick of dreaming about the domestic life. She wanted it now.She wanted to stop the war so that Greece would be a unified region of people and they could fight toget...
