What a funny play...

So this past week we were reading "Clouds," by Aristophanes. This was one messed up play. I thought it was funny, but I didn't like the nastiness in the content. There were a lot of crude remarks made by Stepsiades, aka Stupid, throughout the whole play.

So the purpose of this play is Stupid asks his son to go to the Pondertorium to learn how to argue the "Lesser Argument," aka the "Wrong Argument," so Stupid can get out of his own debts. He blames his son for his money problems, saying that it was his son who wanted to ride horses, bet on horses, and have everything horse around him. His son refuses to go, so Stupid decides to go instead. He doesn't want to learn knowledge, just how to get out of paying all this money.

He goes to the Pondertorium and meets wise old Socrates. He sees things that look weird, such as students studying what was beneath the earth with their noses to the dirt, while at the same time studying the stars with their asses. He doesn't like the fact that he has to be wrapped up in a flea-infested blanket in order to learn knowledge. He is so dense, in fact, that he takes everything Socrates says either litterally, or he doesn't understand it all.

He actually thought that Zeus makes rain by pissing. He makes all sorts of fart jokes in relation to thunder. Later, when asked if he had a grasp of anything yet, he replys with "My right hand has a good grasp on my prick at the moment." What a rude man. I think this guy should be kicked in the face.

I definitely did not get too much into this book simply because it was a little too vulgar for my liking. If it was a newer play, I don't think it would have bothered me as much. But classical works, I just expect better writing. Or, I guess, I like nicer writing.

Overall, it wasn't a bad book, I just don't like classical works to be vulgar I guess. I expect them to hold some kind of stature I guess.