they ran the household when the men were off fighting in wars. They handled all of the duties like clockwork. At the time men were the dominant figures in society ruling all, just as a monarch or dictatorship would control all of its subordinates. He created Lysistrata to poke fun of the ways things were controlled, and also to show that change would be the only logical solution to the ignorant views. This was his way of telling people that if they wanted life to be lived in harmony and peace they would have to accept a new point of view and open their minds to change.Plato on the other hand viewed the situation slightly different; he believed that there are different classes of people. All people are born with their skills and evolve to different levels. He thought that there were two different classes of people, one class he referred to as the workers (today we have a working class), which are the majority, then you also have the ruling class, which are the minority. The workers are responsible for providing material needs of its republic; the ruling class is responsible for promoting and providing social justice and harmony. Plato feels that people have a purpose some are meant to use different skills that others. The working class should have no say in making difficult decisions because that is not what they are built for, they possess the ability to work with their physical gifts. Also the ruling class is not cut out for labor or physical work, they should use their minds to organize and oversee issues that are a negative impact on a society and promote justice. In the comedy Lysistrata, Aristophanes is also trying to show that peoples desires and passions are more powerful and controlling, they have the ability to overcome almost anything. He had the women use sexual tension as a weapon on their enemy, which were the men. He showed that sexual abstinence by the women, unnerved the men, this brought the men to the bargaining tabl...
