At first this play can be really seen as an exhibtion of sexual inuendo and sex related puns , but when looked at it closely there are many other aspects that surround the surface of the underlying meaning. To me, personally ther are more than one way this play can be interpreted.
1) A shwoing of the struggle for power between the sexes - This is shown by the conflict over the akropolis by the women and the men and throughout the entire play when both sides dealt with the constant fight and struggle that they had to go through to gain what they expected from their actions, for the women it was stop the war and for the men stop the war to get sex.
2) The understimation of women and their power - need i say more!!! this point is shown by the action that the woment take to abstain from sex.
3) It can also be a social critique by the author in which he calls out society for being to eagerly motivated to pursue what they want without taking into consideration the unintended consequences - for example the men go to war to win it and women stop having sex with them to stop the war, but really did the problems get solved right away or were there even further obstacles?
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i agree with you that these are the 3 major themes of the play, and that they are very heavily relied on in this play. but i think that one other thing that deserves recognition is Brains vs. Brawn
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