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    sisters talking to Macduff after everything happened. Who? List and describe the characters involved in the narrative you are creating. Character Name: Macbeth   How would you describe this character? Why?                         Physical Appearance    Brave and loyal to king Duncan‚ and Duncan thought greatly of him.  Because he needs to be loyal to everyone. Feelings    Having feelings of guilt‚ after he killed him he was almost in shock.  Because he killed someone and he didn’t know

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    farmhouse‚ and everything including demonstrates the women’s lives. It shows the writer being occupied with the lifestyle‚ which is bound by the sex and gender roles. Gender was the main theme in this short story. As it has been elucidated in the title‚ Trifles mean something of by zero centrality. The women in this overall population are seen as the losses of time‚ which has no significance. The women are simply found just in the kitchen. They don’t give off an impression of being helpful‚ yet men are seen

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    Don’t judge a play by its cover. Three of the main characters in the play A Doll House appear to be more than they seem. Throughout the progression of the play‚ the mask that had once covered their tracks‚ dissolves and the characters’ true colors can be seen. At the beginning of the story‚ Nora‚ Torvald’s wife‚ is depicted as a feeble‚ childlike‚ and an ignorant woman. Torvald‚ Nora’s husband‚ is painted as a strong‚ independent man who is the provider of the family. Also‚ Krogstad can be described

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    recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men” – Gloria Steinem. Susan Glaspell’s short play “Trifles” can be recognized as feminist literature and the primary concept was to highlight the gender inequality where women are treated unequally and their viewpoints were taken lightly by men in the early 1900s. Glaspell features these pieces of evidence from the characters‚ and the setting. “Trifles” demonstrates the discrimination of a male-dominated society‚ and at the same time‚ insults women who

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    Trifles” was written in 1916 and it is a work of Susan Glaspell. In “Trifles” the are a lot of trifles that for men they are only objects but for women these trifles are very good clues to discover who has murdered Mr Wright. In the next paragraphs i will explain the meaning of these trifles that help women to discover the murderer. The first trifle is the jars of preserves. These jars maybe represent the feelings and the sanity of Mrs Wright‚ when theses jars break because the temperature go

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    The Role of Women in Trifles and The Jewelry In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles‚ written around 1915‚ the role of women is superior to the men’s role and in Guy de Maupassant’s story‚ The Jewelry‚ the woman has an inferior role‚ and in the end‚ we find out that she was not a faithful wife. As the two stories are set at the turn of the twentieth century‚ the readers come to believe that women were not treated with much respect or thought to be intelligent; they were merely there to make children and

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    English Comp. II 1 November 2011 Trifles Analysis Susan Glaspell wrote the play Trifles in 1916. The play/story emulates the author’s thoughts on discrepancies concerning preconceived notions of gender. According to Dictionary.com the exact definition of trifle is “Something of little importance or value”. The title of the play suggests that the concerns of women are too often considered minute and negligible affairs‚ irrelevant to a male dominant society. The issue in question is the circumstantial

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    In the short essay play‚ Trifles‚ it shows how women pay attention to the very small things that can lead to bigger things. These are the Trifles in the play. So‚ why are women so attracted to the little details? Glaspell uses the women in the play to attract to small detail that will help in solving the big crime. This helps them see the bigger picture as to what is going on. It is very obvious in Trifles that the men only think women worry about little things. They do not comprehend that by trifling

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    people at the halfway house are responsible for the household chores. He refuses to complete his chores. He reports that his cleaning abilities are limited by his back issues. He is unable to cook and needs assistance with shopping. MENTAL STATUS Appearance and Behavior The claimant wore baggy sweats‚ a T-shirt and a hooded sweat-jacket to his appointment today. He uses excessive profanity. He can be described as fidgety.

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    freedom‚ honor and the different rights of men and women. In "Trifles" and "The Inheritors" both written by Susan Glaspell‚ we observe different qualities found in women and men and how are depicted in different light. The strong feeling of women being the caretakers at home is the first that we see. In both pieces of literature‚ we see the women always in the kitchen and men criticize them on how they take care of things. In "Trifles"‚ we see a group of men and women investigating a crime scene

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