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Plays by Susan Glaspell
Having long endured deprivation, isolation, and oppression, Minnie Wright finally reaches a breaking point when the only thing of beauty and carrier of joy in her stark home is destroyed. A thesis...
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Trifles
The most striking symbols are the canary and the bird cage. The canary symbolizes the role of a woman in this kind of male-dominated society. The bird is kept in a cage and its only means of...
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Trifles
In its presentation and content, realistic drama strives to preserve the illusion of real, everyday life. Susan Glaspell's Trifles, first performed in 1916 and based upon a true story of a woman...
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Trifles
Although Minnie is never seen on stage, the setting represents her and her marriage to John. The kitchen is cold, like their marriage. Her preserve jars are broken, suggesting barren feelings and...
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Trifles
In Trifles, George Henderson, the County Attorney, is the most psychologically flat. As such a flat character, Henderson remains the same throughout the story, "Trifles." For, all the way to the...
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Trifles
Mrs. Hale takes the stitches out of the quilt because their hasty stitching shows Mrs. Wright was preoccupied and possibly indicates her guilt. To the women, the quilt provides insight into Mrs....
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Trifles
The process of making a quilt is an appropriate metaphor--an explication of one thing by a reference to another--for the plot of Trifles because Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters piece together the small...
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Trifles
In regards to the investigation taking place in the play, the so-called "trifles" to which Mr. Hale refers to in the play would be the unimportant details that women presumably love to think about...
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Trifles
In Glaspell's play, the "trifles" are the quilt with erratic stitching, the bird cage, and the dead canary in a pretty little box. Ironically, the "trifles" found in the kitchen are key items to...
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Trifles
In Glaspell's Trifles, Mrs. Wright, who is under suspicion for killing her husband, is compared, through a simile, to a bird. Mrs. Hale says, "She--come to think of it, she was kind of like a...
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Trifles
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Trifles
The impact of the play depends on an understanding of the patriarchal culture that Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Wright functioned in, so a play in which a man murders his wife and his male...
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Killings
Yes, both Mrs. Wright and Mr. Fowler commit murder in order to rectify injustice. Apart from that, there are at least two other connections that can be made between the two: 1) Concerned parties...
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Trifles
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Trifles
The broken cage door signifies that Mr. Wright brutally snatched the canary out in order to stop its singing. This act symbolizes his invasion of the last refuge Mrs. Wright has from the cruelty of...
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Trifles
To make such a letter look official, try looking for templates of magistrate letters. This is as simple as googling the key words: template, letter, and magistrate. The letter would begin with...
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Trifles
The place of Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, is a farmhouse in rural Iowa; the development of the plot occurs mainly in the kitchen.The time is the winter of 1900. Interestingly, Glaspell...
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Trifles
The primary reason that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters withhold the evidence from the sheriff and the attorney is that they do not want it to be used to subject Mrs. Wright to an even more unjust trial...
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Trifles
"Horizon of expectation" refers to the context in which the reader or viewer reads or views a literary work or play. In Susan Glaspell's short play Trifles, readers can have one horizon of...
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Trifles
By this question I am assuming you mean, "Discuss the role of music in the play." Music or melody is significant in Trifles as a symbol for Minnie Wright, the woman suspected of murdering her...
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Trifles
Trifles is a poignant drama of the consequences of feminine repression, loneliness, and deprivation. The play begins as the male and female characters arrive at the home of John and Minnie Wright...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Both Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Susan Glaspell's Trifles share the themes of the dangerous nature of repression, the treatment of women, and alienation. Repression and...
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Trifles
Great question! When it comes to gender equality, there are issues that often come interconnected with the historical period where they occur. This is because, as theories of individual and group...
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Trifles
The play Trifles starts out in the kitchen of the Wright residence, where the entire party has gathered to try to make sense of what has just taken place. The man of the house, a farmer named John...
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Trifles
After she looks around the stark house of the Wrights, becoming disturbed by the worn and shabby clothes of Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Hale experiences guilt for not having visited Minnie Foster. For, she...
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Trifles
From the comparison that you provide, the assignment asks that your compare the play Trifles with a movie that has the subject matter of subjugated women. The reason why this is the rationale of...
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Trifles
Irony is rampant in the play Trifles. The title itself is ironic, as there are absolutely no trifles to the situation that unveils in the play. As a literary device, irony moves the plot forward by...
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Trifles
If you were to take on the persona of a news reporter to write an essay on "Trifles," much of the essay would include a rehashing of certain details from the play. A reporter, of course, has to...
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Trifles
An interesting way to analyze the characters in Trifles is to think of them in the context of a classic murder mystery story, such as a Sherlock Holmes mystery. The great detective Sherlock Holmes...
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Trifles
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Trifles
It is fitting that Minnie Wright does not appear on stage for a number of reasons. With no physical appearance and no lines, the audiences is unable to form superficial conclusions about Minnie...
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Trifles
The first assumption that the males make in the play Trifles is that women have absolutely no worries or concerns to care for in life with the exception of tending to their homes and families. We...
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Trifles
There are several innocuous details in the kitchen of the desolate farmhouse that suggest there was something that bothered Mrs. Wright.Here are some of these details: When Mr. Hale stopped on his...
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Trifles
In Susan Glaspell's play Trifles, Patriarchal Dominance, Empathy and Protection rest at the core of the plot development and the story's outcome. As the play opens, several men are searching the...
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Trifles
Susan Glaspell's one act play is best known for exploring the evolution of traditional gender roles for women in the 19th Century; while the play acknowledges the divide between the public sphere...
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Trifles
The men walk in first, taking the lead. The women follow the men. When the women walk in, they stay together at the door. Already, there is a separation of the genders. The men "lead" and the women...
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Trifles
The murder was justified if Mrs. Wright killed her husband in self-defense. It is always difficult to say what justifies one person killing another, but there is evidence that Mrs. Wright might...
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Trifles
The main dramatic elements that we can find in Trifles are: Pacing As an act in one play, the beginning, middle and end must be evident within a short period of time. For this reason, we see that...
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Trifles
The ladies find the dead bird in the sewing basket. They realize both that Mr. Wright killed the bird, and that it was what caused Minnie to kill him. When John Wright is murdered, his wife does...
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Trifles
About three pages into the play, Mr. Henderson (County Attorney) asks the sheriff if he had found anything important, anything that would "point to any motive." The sheriff replies that nothing had...
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Trifles
The murder of Minnie Wright's husband was the consequence of pent up, disturbed and emotional chaos caused by an extended period of domestic violence. Minnie was isolated in the middle of nowhere....
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Trifles
When Hale visits with Mrs. Wright, she is in her rocking chair pleating her apron. Hale says she was acting weird. Hale asks to see John and she calmly says that he can not because John is dead....
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Trifles
In Susan Glaspell's play Trifles, the audience is introduced to the characters within the kitchen setting. The men stand warming themselves by the stove and it is interesting to note that the two...
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Trifles
1. While the play begins the day after a murder, the background information ls soon revealed that a neighbor of the Wright's, Mr. Hale has reported stopping to ask about the Wright's getting on a...
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Trifles
The play Trifles (1916) was appropriately titled "A Jury of Her Peers" when made into a short story adaptation of the play in 1917. The reason why the title fits the story so well is because of the...
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Trifles
An epiphany is generally defined as a sudden understanding of "the reality or essential meaning of something"; the understanding is particularly brought on by mundane experiences (Random House...
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Trifles
Glaspell's play Trifles (1916) takes as one of its subjects the dismissive treatment of women by men--in this case, the sheriff's wife, Mrs. Peterson, and the farmer's wife, Mrs. Hale--who are...
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Trifles
When Mrs. Peters says "the law has got to punish crime," it is a statement of how she perceives structure in the world. At the drama's exposition, Mrs. Peters speaks of such structure and order....
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Trifles
Minnie killed her husband because he was abusive toward her. She killed him in self defense. There is plenty of evidence that Minnie was abused. She used to be a cheerful, outgoing, and carefree...
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A Doll's House
In comparing both dramas, the overwhelming aspect of convergence between both is the open discussion of gender identity. Both dramas make similar points about what it means to be a woman. Modern...
