A condição feminina em Lisístrata e em A Fonte das mulheres

Abstract

This current paper focuses on the Greek comedy Lysistrata (411 BC), by Aristophanes, and its film adaptation, the film The Source of Women (La Source des Femmes, 2011), co-produced by France, Belgium and Italy and directed by Radu Mihaileanu Romanian to analyze the status of women at home. For the development of the research, we start from the description of excerpts of comedy description and from scenes of the film, considering the peculiarities of production contexts and reception of each, in order to examine the differences in regard to the treatment of women’s issues in the works cited. To justify theoretically the work, we resort to researchers who have studied the translation and adaptation studies, as Hermans (1992) and Lefevere (1992), and on the study of Greek comedy, as Pompey (1997) and Oliveira e Silva (1991). The results show that the cinematographic work, due to the context in which it operates, debates the status of women of diverse comedy mode: while the Aristophanic comedy deals with the theme of women to discuss the maintenance of the polis, the film receives major discussion points to the feminist movement itself and discusses the oppression that patriarchy imposes on women.