This portion of the letter is almost a sermon being sent to Pantagruel. As the tone of the letter is already formal, the content in which his father is discussing is traditional and mature. He explains this to his son contrasting the majorly satirical piece. The continuance of a family line is not an easy conversation to have or explain especially during this time when marriage was vital to social survival.

A wench is typically a young woman who partakes in lewd acts such as Prostitution. In modern ages, the term wench makes you think of a bar wench which is a bar prostitute. The Oxford English Dictionary recognizes this use of the word since 1299.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/wench_n?tab=factsheet#14621327

This is a statement of power. Lysistrata is explaining that she is aware of the political climate she and the other women are trapped in. This is why she exclaims that it is their responsibility to save the country as the men are no longer able to as they are too enraptured by war. This statement then connects the relationship between sex and war and male desire for power. The reason that the fate of the country is in the women's hands is because the men care more about exerting power over one another than living peacefully this is furthered by the previous interaction between Calonice and Lysistrata.

Asikainen, Susanna. “Chapter 2 Masculinities in the Ancient Greco-Roman World.” Brill, Brill, 29 Dec. 2018, brill.com/display/book/9789004361096/BP000008.xml?language=en.

The king sits before the high tables. The high tables are filled with the most important members of society or in close proximity to the king's ear in important matters. This explains why both friends or the king and family were sitting there. Another visual show of importance during this time would be to be sitting at the dais or the table that is set up on a higher level than the rest.

“Middle Ages.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., www.britannica.com/technology/furniture/Middle-Ages. Accessed 8 Mar. 2024.

This excerpt leads way to a main lesson to be learned from the third chapter. Action is not only vital but it is inescapable. This is further explained as Krishna explains that even if you remain lazy and without action, human nature will rebuke that, forcing you into action.This idea gets convoluted by the concept of action in inaction. This concept means that the act of doing nothing or being inactive is an action itself. Naïve Definitions of Action and Inaction: A Study of Free Associations Using Natural Language Processing and Top-Down Coding by Aashna Sunderrajan and Dolores Albarracín states "action and inaction have been distinguished in terms of agency, with action being defined as more intentional and controllable than inaction." This relates to this excerpt by explaining that even though many actions are intentional there are many inactions that garner similar reactions.

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2021-07/e3eff4_2456ff180aef42d4b0f212102f71388d.pdf

Madea is able to finally express her feelings publicly for the way in which Greek men treat women in their society. In a way, this passage from her speech exemplifies the respect she has for herself regardless of the expected opinion Greek women should have of themselves. Madea states that she "dazzles" where she stands, alone, she is able to shine, speak, and make a difference. She has self worth and respect fro herself in a way that reminds me of Joan Didion's essay "On Self Respect." Joan Didion captures the audience by refuting what many may think self-respect is and counter-arguing that self-respect is an internal strength that one must find. Madea has the internal strength and gall to have self-respect in a way that no women during her time did. This speech also gives way to criticism of the men in society by calling out her husband for being disloyal and "evil." She uses her anger towards her husband to exude an internal strength that she is able to bring out in the other women of Athens.