the frogs political background?

Question

what was the political and historical background to the frogs?

i need more help *looks worried*

ohh blast!!
i was meaning the frogs a greek play aristophanes

sorry i forgot to add it

Answer 1

the frog's background is the pond and leaves and i dont know what you are talking about with the political and historical background

Answer 2

LIKE The Birds, this play rather avoids politics than otherwise, its leading motif, over and above the pure fun and farce for their own sake of the burlesque descent into the infernal regions, being a literary one, an onslaught on Euripides the Tragedian and all his works and ways.

It was produced in the year 405 B.C., the year after The Birds, and only one year before the Peloponnesian War ended disastrously for the Athenian cause in the capture of the city by Lysander. First brought out at the Lenæan festival in January, it was played a second time at the Dionysia in March of the same year--a far from common honour. The drama was not staged in the Author's own name, we do not know for what reasons, but it won the first prize, Phrynichus' Muses being second.

Answer 3

"The Frogs" by Aristophanes was a satire investigating the ridiculous concept (he believed) that law could inspire and control arts and culture. It was not serious comment on real politics.

Answer 4

I assume you mean France, as far as I understand they are currently a socialist society, but they lean toward communist/nationalist tendencies. After the fall of their aristocracy, the upheaval lead to many splinter political groups. So the frogs have many different political groups and ideas, but their society is governed by the pseudo-communist cowards we know and love today,

Answer 5

Look, before I start I want to tell everyone out there who thinks that the French are cowards and idiots are wrong. Oh, and people who think the US saved France in both World Wars. That's just American-superiority-complex bullshit. France stood strong throughout the First World War and large numbers of the French people fought against the Nazis, as part of French "regular" forces and as resistance fighters. They were often poorly armed compared to their Nazi enemies, yet fought anyway. Perhaps someone should recall that the US was too chicken to enter the First World War before much of the fighting was over. No offense to veterans of course, I merely wished to point out that, while the US was crucial in the Second World War, the French people were famously brave in countering their German foes.

Ok, now that that is out of my system:
The French Monarchy was one with absolute power from the reign of King Louis XIV (r.1643-1715) to that of Louis XVI (r.1774-1792) (although the idea of absolute monarchy under Louis XVI was severley different that that under Louis XIV). At the onset of the French Revolution following the Third Estate's decision to proclaim itself the National Assembly and the subsequent swearing of the Tennis Court Oath, leading to France's first Constitution.
The Assembly was followed by the National Constituent Assembly which was then changed to the Legislative Assembly, and finally the National Convention. These acted as parliaments under a constitutional monarchy. In January of 1973, Louis XVI was executed on charges of treason, beginning the monarchy's long hiatus.
When the Reign of Terror began in September of 1793, the Committee of Public Safety under Maximilien Robespierre, "The Incorruptible" ruled with an iron fist. The Terror lasted until July of 1974, when a large number of Robespierre's fellow Jacobins were killed in the Thermidorian Reaction (named for the Revolutionary month the coup was executed in). Robespierre was executed and the Directory came to power.
The Directory lasted from 1795 until 1799. It was the last stage of the Revolution before progressing into the dicatorial Consulate and eventually the Empire of Napoleon.
In 1815, after both of Napoleon's surrenders (the second being after the super-decisive Battle of Waterloo), Louis XVIII was proclaimed as king. The King ruled alongside representative houses, specifically the Chamber of Deputies.
The reenstated monarchy lasted from 1815 to 1848. During this time, numerous revolts occured against the government, prominently those of 1830, 1832 (made famous by Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"), 1848. The July Revolution installed the "citizen king" Louis-Phillipe (I), who reigned until 1848, when he was replaced by Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew to Napoleon, who proclaimed himself Napoleon III of the Second Empire (1852-1871).
1871 was the year of the famous Paris Commune, the name given to the socialist government that governed Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. After this time, France returned to the Republican system with the Third Republic (the Second being from 1848-52, the period where Napoleon III was President as opposed to emperor), which lasted until the Nazi Invasion.
Vichy France, an unpopular government of French ultra-conservatives, cooperated with the Nazis until it was invaded and absorbed by the Nazis.
After the end of WWII, in 1946, Charles de Gaulle led the Fourth Republic, which lasted until the adoption of the most recent constitution in 1958 following the Algerian Crisis. The Fifth Republic has been somewhat left of centre, though still with rightist tendancies. Allegations of pseudo-communism or socialism are hyperbolic, although European leftism can seem extreme by North American standards.