Monologue

Lysistrata Monologue

From Lysistrata by Aristophanes

female · anguished · 1:11 min

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Be calm then and I'll go ahead. All the long years when the hopeless war dragged along we, unassuming, forgotten in quiet, Endured without question, endured in our loneliness all your incessant child's antics and riot. Our lips we kept tied, though aching with silence, though well all the while in our silence we knew How wretchedly everything still was progressing by listening dumbly the day long to you. For always at home you continued discussing the war and its politics loudly, and we Sometimes would ask you, our hearts deep with sorrowing though we spoke lightly, though happy to see, "What's to be inscribed on the side of the Treaty-stone What, dear, was said in the Assembly today?" "Mind your own business," he'd answer me growlingly "hold your tongue, woman, or else go away." And so I would hold it.

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Lysistrata expresses her frustration and sorrow over the ongoing war and the dismissive attitudes of men towards women's concerns, highlighting the emotional burden carried by women during this time.

30s · sadness · power · isolation · war · gender roles

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