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1. Strepsiades wants to send his son Pheidippides to Sokrates' Thinkery to learn
that children should respect their parents astronomy, entomology, and other new sciences the proper social graces for a well-to-do Athenian how to argue his way out of paying debts
2. Pheidipides refuses to go to the Thinkery because
he has already completed his education he is afraid that he will not be able to understand the new scientific teachings he has ro respect for traditional values he is afraid he will look pale and scruffy like Sokrates' students
3. Before Sokrates appears, a Pupil reveals to Strepsiades that Sokrates has recently discussed the following:
the nature of human virtue why the traditional gods deserve our reverence which end of a gnat's digestive tract makes noise the relationship between fate and free will
4. When Sokrates makes his entrance, he is
wheeled out on a moving platform by servants suspended in a basket in mid-air dancing with the Chorus of Clouds preparing to give a formal lecture
5. One argument by which Sokrates tries to disprove the existence of Zeus is that
Zeus allowed the terrible bloodshed at Troy to take place fate is really the most powerful force in the universe lightning strikes temples and trees sacred to Zeus there is only one supreme being
6. The Clouds are an appropriate chorus for this play because
they represent a new way of looking at natural phenomena the audience traditionally worshipped them Greek poets were fond of portraying them Aristophanes wanted to encourage people to worship them
7. In the Parabasis the Chorus Leader, speaking for Aristophanes, says that
no one should take his play seriously the Athenians should take immediate action against Sokrates and people like him everyone should think critically about their own beliefs the other comic poets are second-rate imitators of his own work
8. Sokrates tries to teach Strepsiades, among other things,
the difference between masculine and feminine nouns the chemical constituents of water the basic principles of astronomy the proper way to pray to the gods
9. When Pheidippides takes Strepsiades' place as a pupil, the Better Argument and the Worse Agrument have a debate about educating him. The Worse Argument asserts that
justice does not exist modesty is a bad idea there's nothing wrong with having a gaping rear end all of the above
10. At the end of the play the Clouds reveal that
they have triumphed over the traditional gods Strepsiades no longer owes any debts they have led Strepsiades astray so that he can learn devotion to the gods Sokrates is their messenger on earth and everybody should heed his words
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