While reading the book The Birds by Aristophanes, I kept getting the urge to reread what I just had finished. Certain parts of the story seemed unimaginable. The use of tasteless words and sex is what mainly caught my eye. When Peisetaerus was explaining to the birds about what to do if the other gods trespassed in order to "get laid" with a female on earth, Peisetaerus said, "clap a seal on their boners, so they can't *censored* any more women (44, 556-560). This is the point that I thought Aristhophanes put in for laughter and the part that shocked me the most.

The first thought in my mind after reading that passage was complete awe and a burst of laughter right after it. It's very communicable to the audience and that's probably

Now, the laughter that I encountered may be more complex to explain, but I am almost positive that after reading Peisetaerus's line, it probably offended some but mostly made people laugh. It's just human nature to laugh when you're in a college literature class and you read a story that has a fair amount of sexual language and gestures in it. Simply because you don't expect to read this kind of material in a liberal arts college that is fairly religious. The thought and focus become stronger because you don't expect that kind of context in a selected college text. Most people expect any work that you read in class to be equal to Huckleberry Finn or some work like that that is nice, healthy reading. Likewise with the audience watching The Birds, once Peisetaerus voiced his o

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