Sunday, November 16, 2008
Kinesias and Myrrhine
I thought one of the most interesting characters in the play was Kinesias, Myrrhine’s husband. Myrrhine fell into the same trap as the other women when she married him. Myrrhine says she loves him, in fact she states, “I’m mad about him!” (81). But Myrrhine knows that he does not love her, but he loves her sex and that is why she did swear an oath. When Kinesias returns to Myrrhine she refuses to go home with him unless he agrees to a truce to stop the war. But, she leads him on to believe she will have sex with him. Like the other men Kinesias is unhappy with the sex strike, but he continuously hints for Myrrhine to have sex with him. Kinesias is like all the other stereotypical men in the play, in the sense that he cannot go twenty-four hours without sex. In the end I thought it was pretty amusing how Myrrhine led him on into believing he was actually going to get some, but runs off in the end, leaving Kinesias even more sexually frustrated.
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I thought Kinesias was very important too in that he was the one who tried to persuade Myrrhine to have sex with him but she stood up against him and led him on but shut him down. However I really do think that the scene with the two of them shows that the men wanted sex but they really wanted their wives as well because when she first descends down the stairs he is captured by her glittering angry eyes and her beauty. He also is suprised when she says I love you to him because he loves her and doesn't understnad why they can't be together if it is so. In ways, yes e wants her for sex only, but I truly think he loves her too just as the other women loves their wives and I think that it is really important to remember that too.
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