A Jury Of Her Peers
A Jury of Her Peers a story in which themes such as the subjugation of women, men’s obliviousness to women's importance shown in addition to their forced roles are presented as passive subordinates to men by which our protagonists prove this to be wrong. Also being something prominently established because of the setting. The mistreatment only being recognized by the two wives who understand struggle that is being a farm wife. In A Jury of Her Peers men and women's roles in society are worlds apart, where men may have the freedom to different opportunities women are not so fortunate and are forced by social rules dominated by men, restricting their freedom of choice through labor and society. Such assumptions made by men that women are bound to their husbands and their moral code rather
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than being seperate beings with their own opinions such as when the attorney exclaims “No, Mrs.
Peters doesn’t need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff’s wife is married to the law.” But in reality she and Mrs.Peters believe the system to be flawed so much so that they make the case their own and investigate on their own, eventually even putting Minnie’s life into their hands as they are the jury, as they understand what she went through and how it feels. This is the closest thing to a fair trial although too late for our “broken” Minnie, no man would be able to understand the reason for her actions or be able to sympathize with her
Our story begins with Martha Hale, hastily leaving her work undone. Being a farms wife, she is bound to these difficult and repetitive tasks in which little to no reward or recognition is given. This gives her and Mrs.Peters reason to help Mrs. Wright and keep details away from their husbands and the sheriff. They feel bad for Mrs.Wright on the personal level understanding how agonizingly
tedious it is to be a farm wife not only that they feel guilt, guilt for not having visiting Mrs. Wright before and more often.” We even see that the men are so simple minded just from statements made such as before going upstairs to investigate concluding that the kitchen had nothing of importance but “kitchen things” as well as when investigating the kitchen and finding her “Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder, and worrying about her preserves!" before leaving their wives alone. While left alone Martha and Mrs.Peters think of motives for why Minnie would kill her husband. They slowly stumble across clues that support this such as the crooked stichting on her quilt concluding that she must've been upset and was rushed. Not only this but they find her much loved canary strangled dead and tucked away in her sewing kit. The symbolism is directly correlated and stated by Martha and Mrs.Peters they come to the conclusion that Minnie’s husband did not only strangle her loved canary but her spirit as well, and she decided enough was enough and returned the favor by strangling to him to death. Martha and Mrs Peters being able to empathize with Minnie decide to hide the truth from their husbands and cover for her. We see a strength not known to the husbands as we see their wives’ loyalty shift from them to Mrs. Wright a person who they can relate to and understand rather than the males who oppress them in the first place.
than being seperate beings with their own opinions such as when the attorney exclaims “No, Mrs.
Peters doesn’t need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff’s wife is married to the law.” But in reality she and Mrs.Peters believe the system to be flawed so much so that they make the case their own and investigate on their own, eventually even putting Minnie’s life into their hands as they are the jury, as they understand what she went through and how it feels. This is the closest thing to a fair trial although too late for our “broken” Minnie, no man would be able to understand the reason for her actions or be able to sympathize with her
Our story begins with Martha Hale, hastily leaving her work undone. Being a farms wife, she is bound to these difficult and repetitive tasks in which little to no reward or recognition is given. This gives her and Mrs.Peters reason to help Mrs. Wright and keep details away from their husbands and the sheriff. They feel bad for Mrs.Wright on the personal level understanding how agonizingly
tedious it is to be a farm wife not only that they feel guilt, guilt for not having visiting Mrs. Wright before and more often.” We even see that the men are so simple minded just from statements made such as before going upstairs to investigate concluding that the kitchen had nothing of importance but “kitchen things” as well as when investigating the kitchen and finding her “Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder, and worrying about her preserves!" before leaving their wives alone. While left alone Martha and Mrs.Peters think of motives for why Minnie would kill her husband. They slowly stumble across clues that support this such as the crooked stichting on her quilt concluding that she must've been upset and was rushed. Not only this but they find her much loved canary strangled dead and tucked away in her sewing kit. The symbolism is directly correlated and stated by Martha and Mrs.Peters they come to the conclusion that Minnie’s husband did not only strangle her loved canary but her spirit as well, and she decided enough was enough and returned the favor by strangling to him to death. Martha and Mrs Peters being able to empathize with Minnie decide to hide the truth from their husbands and cover for her. We see a strength not known to the husbands as we see their wives’ loyalty shift from them to Mrs. Wright a person who they can relate to and understand rather than the males who oppress them in the first place.