of others, direct comment, thoughts, and mannerism. From those nine principles, there are only speech, conversation of others and direct comment to be devices in
analyzing the characteristics of Lysistrata in the play. The theory of feminism is used to give clearer description about feminism.
It also will be applied to answer the second question in the problem formulation. The theories of feminism taken from Maggie Humm as stated in his book, The
Dictionary of Feminism Theory. Another theory of feminism are going to be used to discuss the way Lysistrata tries to survive live without the men to stop the war
and show to them that a woman have a big important role in a family life. Feminism approach involves various theories of feminism to explain the
women’s live in the daily live and women’s role in the family live.
C. Context of Lysistrata
The setting of Lysistrata is in Greece in the 410 BC. I would like to give a brief history based on the Aristophanes and Lysistrata’s point of view, from socio
culture, political and economic side.
1. Aristophanes
Aristophanes wrote this play in the condition where women are underestimated by men. At that time Greece is divided into two local areas, they
were Athena and Sparta. The background of those countries was very different. Athena was more modern country than Sparta. They had good knowledge
therefore Athena have some scientist like Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, etc. It was
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different from Sparta. Sparta was a military country. They concentrate to their country’s security.
From economic side, Athena was more prosperous than Sparta. Democracy was effective in Athena than Sparta.
2. Lysistrata
As stated above, Aristophanes wrote the drama in the condition where men had an authority. At that time, the women were not allowed to express their
thought and their voices deliberately. Through this drama, Lysistrata as the main character tried to show that women have power in order to prove that they have
the same right. They also tried to prove that a woman also has her own power to express her feeling.
It is not the time for women to be underestimated by men. It is the time for women to realize that they have rise their dignity by showing their power.
Therefore, women should struggle against the domination of men.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of three parts. The first part is subject matter, in this part I would like to give brief explanation about the script drama. The second part
I would discuss the approach in this study. Then the last part is procedures that explain all the steps on the analyzing of this script drama.
A. SUBJECT MATTER
In this thesis, I choose Lysistrata drama script. The original novel was written by Aristophanes at 410 BC. This drama script is an English translation,
published in 1954 by Harcourt, Brace Co, NY as the first edition. The English version is translated by Dudley Fitts.
The content of this story is about women in Greece. There are a war between Athena and Sparta. Women and children are very sad, they cannot gather
with their family completely. Their husbands father leave them and go to the war. Lysistrata is an Athenian her husband is a commissioner. She thinks only
women can save Greece, she has an idea to end the war. One day, Lysistrata invites some people to her house. The people are women who have high position
in Greece. Lysistrata conveys her idea to end the war. Her idea is all of the women in Greece leave their house and live in a mass calls Akropolis.
By knowing the condition, all of the men in Greece are very angry. They lose their wife, and feel lonely. No one at home, they do the household alone
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