Two obstinate and powerful women, Medea and Lysistrata, accomplish their goals with different methods but with the same intention; of love and happiness. Medea is a woman in Euripides' tragedy, who is driven mad by her anger towards her husband whom she had given so much for. Lysistrata is a woman in Aristophanes' comedy, who originates a plan in order to obtain peace. Their differences are uncountable given the uncorrelated situations and settings, but both resemble in their strive for what their loved ones can provide as loyal husbands. Because of their husbands' actions, both Medea and Lysistrata react defensively depending on the genres of the story. Medea, a tragedy, depicts Medea's reaction as ruinous and disturbing while Lysistrata, a comedy, depicts the protagonist's reaction to be rather genuine and humorous. The two women share a common interest and incentives, while their methods and situations differ greatly.
             Medea and Lysistrata believe that women are unfortunate. Medea says: "We women are the most unfortunate creatures. Firstly, with an excess of wealth it is required for us to buy a husband and take for our bodies a master; for not to take one is even worse."(Page 8) in these lines, Medea explains that in a society controlled by men, women had no choice other than getting married or be lonely for the rest of their lives. Lysistrata has the same ideas about women being lonely as she says in the following: "Then secondly, instead of enjoying the pleasures of love and making the best of our youth and beauty, we are left to languish far from our husbands, who are all with the army. But say no more of ourselves; what afflicts me is to see our girls growing old in lonely grief. When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards hav...