Jenelle Fiori; Frogs

The plot of Frogs is about a man, named Dionysus, who wants to bring the poet Euripides back from the dead. When he arrived in Hades, he finds out that there is a contest to see who the greatest poet was in their life. The contesters include Euripides and Aeschylus. They argue by weighing their poetries and tragedies based on the lines they wrote, resulting as Aeschylus winning and Dionysus taking him back to Earth with him. This comedic satire was difficult to understand in that I was questioning why such esteemed poets would bicker as though they were immature children. In this, I wonder if the author, Aristophanes, wrote the play to make fun of the old ways of poetry and how it should be analyzed. In any sense, however, it was an interesting look at the lives of poets and their writings through a different point of view.