The Frogs really vital

 

What makes the play, The Frogs really vital?

 

Ans. An important point of The Frogs is literary criticism, but it is not all. There are other important points which make the comedy really vital. Aristophanes takes an interest in the philosophical questions of his time. Dionysus becomes involved in the quest for restoring important values to the civilizations of Athens. Naturally, there are dramatic interactions. At the beginning of this play Dionysus goes in quest of Euripides because he is a fashionable, decadent modernist. There is no question of serious purpose. But in the end he decides that Aeschylus, not Euripides, must be returned to Athens. It is because that the salvation of the state depends on restoring the manly conservative principles for which the elder poet stands. What has happened is not unusual in comic satire. The initial raillery has become serious. So it is not only literary criticism, but to establish the truth on humour and fun. What was the need of the time was properly focused on.