Review of “Trifles” Susan Glaspell play‚ “Trifles”‚ revolves around Mrs. Wright‚ a woman who seeks revenge on her husband for oppressing her through their years of marriage. During the time of Glaspell’s play‚ early 1900’s‚ men are the dominant figures in society and women are expected to cook‚ clean‚ raise children and care for their husbands. Glaspell’s play‚ “Trifles”‚ main goal is portraying a theme of women being oppressed through marriage by the use of symbolism through a canary and a bird
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difficult for the reader not to be thrown into the mindset of Mrs. Wright. Minnie Foster Wright was a sweet woman who died over a 20 year period. This story shows how belittled women were in these days. The two women who joined their husbands to witness the scene were privy to every scornful thing the men had to say about Minnie’s upkeep of the place. What the men didn’t realize is that the only evidence they could possibly find to convict Minnie was invisible to them but not their wives. The women saw the
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characters’‚ Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale’s‚ ability to sympathize with the victim’s wife‚ Minnie‚ and so understand her motives‚ that leads them to the evidence against her‚ while the men are blinded by their cold‚ emotionless investigation of material facts. The female characters find the body of a canary‚ which had its neck wrung‚ killed in the same way as the deceased (John Wright)‚ thus leading them to the conclusion that Minnie was the murderer‚ and they appear to empathize with her situation. Clearly‚ the
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“Trifles”‚ by Susan Glaspell‚ the character‚ Mrs. Wright‚ had come to a breaking point and killed her husband. Although it seems fair for her to be punished‚ the reason behind her actions are deep and somewhat justify her sin. Her husband‚ Mr. Wright brutally caused her to suffer emotionally and physically. At the time‚ for women‚ it was hard to get help‚ especially with a sexist justice system. The cruel treatment and isolation Mrs. Wright endured from Mr. Wright and how it all affected her is symbolised
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property of the Wrights’. Mrs.Hale used to be good friends with Mrs.Wright‚ commonly known as‚ Minnie Foster. In the beginning of the short story‚ Mrs.Hale revisits the home of the Wrights’ and speaks with Mrs.Wright. Planning on reuniting with Mr.Wright as well‚ Martha finds outs that she cannot speak with him because he has passed. “He died of a rope around his
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leg of lamb‚ to the detectives. Similarly‚ Minnie Wright (A Jury of Her Peers) pleaded innocence‚ claiming she was asleep when someone snuck into her bedroom‚ strangled her husband‚ who was sleeping beside her‚ and then vanished without a trace. They were both too afraid to take responsibility for their actions. While both plot lines are
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performed‚ the developing subtext of gender issues is distanced from the conscious mind of participants through the vehicle of setting‚ which places events in the rural backcountry of the Midwest. This setting‚ in the house of one farmer’s wife‚ Mrs. Minnie Wright‚ nonetheless provides a spark that strongly kindles the cosmopolitan views recently ushered into mainstream culture by the passage of women’s suffrage into US law in 1919. The truth about male and female relationships really comes to life by
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Kenny Osborne Dr. Lynn Summer English 1102 1/20/2013 Summary of Trifles Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a play written in the early nineteen hundreds. What happens is a farmer by the name John Wright is murdered and the culprit is thought to be Minnie Wright‚ John’s wife. This play takes place in the kitchen of John Wright’s abandoned farmhouse. This case is investigated by three men: the sheriff of the town Henry Peters‚ the county attorney George Henderson‚ and a neighboring farmer Lewis
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we have the two female characters: Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters forming an alliance of their own in order to protect Minnie Wright. At the beginning of the story it seemed that Mrs. Hale was the main one that felt compassion and sadness
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contains themes of female identity‚ revenge‚ and protection. The protagonists of the play are women‚ but they are not known by their first names. They are only called by their husbands’ name. It is only when they speak of Mrs. Wright before her marriage that she is called Minnie.
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