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Act One- Aristophanes ‘Peace’

Act One- Aristophanes ‘Peace’

The opening lines of this play are in mid argument, between two slaves. A typical Greek comedy tactic, using slaves to provide humour- slaves which hate their owners. Now these slaves are doing a comical thing in rolling up poo into balls to feed a Dung beetle. Now this Dung beetle as expressed by the second slave is very picky with it’s food and has a large appetite. The second slave is the one which is rolling the poo into buns, the one which has the worst job of kneading the poo all day so that the beetle will like it. The Dung beetle is getting hand made poo buns for it is a very important asset within this play. Trygaeus- the owner of the slaves- is planning on flying up to the Gods on the back of the beetle, calling it his ‘hippo beetle’. The slaves mock Trygaeus for attempting to do this calling him a mad man, that he has a ‘new kind of madness’. The slaves appear to think that Trygaeus will not be able to get up to the God’s...

Posted by: Janet Valerio

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