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Alex Ezrati 12*6 How sympathetic a character do you find Procleon in Wasps? Upon reading Aristophanes' Wasps for the first time, Procleon, the antihero of the play, evokes a strange sort of sympathy. The part of us that wants to rebel against the system identifies with his character, and admires the way in which, in the second half of the play, he "does what the man in the street would really like to do" (K Dover) and generally places himself above authority. Aristophanes loads Procleon's character with vulgarity and nastiness, but does it in such a way that an audience seeing the play for the first time will focus on sympathizing with him as the `heroic' character more than his deep-seated and twisted darker side. For instance, in the first scene we see Procleon trapped inside his own home, treated not like a villain or monster, but a mentally...

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