Topic Sentences example Lysistrata



Topic Sentences example Lysistrata

Prompt: Analyze the satire in the passage from Lysistrata by Aristophanes.

Thesis statement: Aristophanes in Lysistrata shifts the traditional subservient female role to one of power in order to reveal that women can alter the frustration and victimization they feel and effect a triumph of wish fulfillment over reality to achieve societal unity through the use of character role reversals and ironic seductive wordplay.

Topic sentence #1 & Topic sentence #2 come from the directions with adjectives in the thesis statement.

Topic sentence

Thesis Topic Sentence

1. topic 1. topic (one of the directions)

2. claim 2. claim (para. Dev. Verb)

3. direction/adjective 3. direction—examples from text

4. universal idea 4. universal idea (use same idea moving to

synonyms)

5. qualifier 5. qualifier (transition—start with subordinating

conjunctions)

after, although, as, as if, because, before

even though, if, in order that, once, since, so that,

than, though, unless, until, when, where, while

Thesis statement: Aristophanes in Lysistrata shifts the traditional subservient female role to one of power in order to reveal that women can alter the frustration and victimization they feel and effect a triumph of wish fulfillment over reality to achieve societal unity through the use of character role reversals and ironic seductive wordplay.

Topic sentence #1

Aristophanes’ almost silly character role reversals of Lysistrata organizing a female sexual revolt leads to the sobering revelation that war weakens a unified democracy even though women in the Greek cultural view wielded no actual power in government nor at home.

(The rest of the paragraph or associated with this topic sentence will SELECT exact examples of character role reversals and discuss)

Thesis statement: Aristphanes in Lysistrata shifts the traditional subservient female role to one of power in order to reveal that women can alter the frustration and victimization they feel and effect a triumph of wish fulfillment over reality to achieve societal unity through the use of character role reversals and ironic seductive wordplay.

Topic sentence #2

The seductive wordplay in the dialogue when Myrrhine lures her husband to the bedroom to sate his desires provides the symbolic representation of the men’s ultimate capitulation to lay down their weapons and cease the war effort for ultimate accord at home as well as in government.

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