The Clouds

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The Clouds is a Greek comedy drama composed by the greatly recognized dramatist Aristophanes. The Clouds is regarded as the world’s first subsisting comedy of ideas. The story opens with the character Strepsiades abruptly sits up in bed while his son is still peacefully asleep next to him. Strepsiades worries too much of his debts that he could hardly sleep. His wife, who came from an aristocratic family, has motivated their son’s fancy deal in horses. Strepsiades thought about making plans to solve and get rid of his debts, he wakes up his son and asks him to do something about his loans. Pheidippides, his son, agrees to help his father, but not long after he realizes that his father wants him to study in a school called Thinkery, for its students makes defeating arguments into winning arguments and the only solution to win their case from the afflicted creditors. Strepsiades has no choice but to enroll himself in the school despite of his age.

Aristophanes is the son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a humor dramatist of classical Athens. His eleven dramas out of forty existed and is accurately complete. The eleven dramas along with bits and pieces of a few of his several dramas, include the original samples of a category of comic play called as Old Comedy.

He was also described as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes was said to renew the life of classical Athens more critically than all other writers.His charm of parody caused angst and appreciation by inspiring contemporaries. Plato called Aristophanes’ play The Clouds as a scandalous remark that the trial that follows to the conviction of death to Socrates but other farcical dramatists had also mocked the comedian.

One of his plays, The Babylonians which is now gone, was criticized by the hot headed Cleon as a defamation over the Athenianpolis.
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