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    The Play Trifles

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    Trifles” is a thematically complex work‚ focusing on topics of feminine identity‚ justice and isolation. The marginalization of women in a patriarchal society‚ the differing attitudes and viewpoints of the men and the women regarding the underlying theme of justice and revenge‚ and the despair and loneliness in Mrs. Wright’s life exposes a broader interpretation of rural American life in the early 1900’s. The play focuses around minor details‚ mere trifles‚ the implications of which become disturbingly

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    In the playTrifles” by Susan Glaspell it was a very interesting and suspenseful play. This play is about a women being accused of killing her husband. The play takes place around the 1916 where they try to find out who killed Mrs. Wright husband John Wright. Hale‚ starts telling what happen that day when he went to the Wrights home. That afternoon Hale was going to ask John if he wanted to go put up a telephone. When Hale starts to explain the situation to the sheriff and the county general in

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    Turning Points In Trifles

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    In the play Trifles I believe it has many significant points that make this story stand out and resemble many stories we here about in today’s society. We begin by having two women by the names of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters and then the two government officials who were all at the dead man Mr. John Wright’s house examining the crime scene the murder that had just taken place at. The sheriff and attorney are set from the very beginning that Mrs. Wright was the murderer and base their whole case around

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    Trifles Symbolism For centuries people have been writing dramas‚ but witnessing the drama of a story is a different kind of experience. There are many elements that make up dramas‚ including sets/setting‚ plot‚ conflict‚ symbolism‚ point of view‚ irony etc. Symbolism is something that can be hard to look for in a drama. A symbol is something that represents more than itself. In a drama props‚ clothing‚ or sets could all be used as symbols. When symbolism is added to a play it becomes more sophisticated

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    Essay on the Play Trifles

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    Essay on the Play Trifles Introduction In Susan Glaspell ’s‚ "Trifles‚" symbolism is used to emphasize the meaning of the play. Glaspell writes of a woman who murdered her husband because he was to blame for her cold and lonely life [1]. Susan Glaspell wrote Trifles in 1916‚ basing this brief‚ one-act play on the murder of the sixty-year-old John Hossack‚ which she had covered extensively during her stint as a journalist with the Des Moines Daily News after her graduation from Drake University

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    Defending the Play Trifle

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    Compostion #1 In the playTrifles by Susan Glaspell‚ is about a murder mystery of Mr. Wright. The men; the court attorney‚ sheriff‚ and Mr. Hale‚ a neighorbor to the Wright family‚ and the women; the sheriff’s wife‚ Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Hale‚ solve the mysery in two very different ways. The men show up at the house as a crime scene‚ and only focusing on the bigger‚ important elements of a murder mystery. As Mr. Hale was trying to explain everything he saw in the house that morning of Mr. Wright’s

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    Karen Alkalay-Gut‚ in "Jury of Her Peers: The Importance of Trifles‚" also finds the gulf between male and female perceptions of judgment to be central to the play. Alkalay-Gut believes that the unfolding evidence not only unites the women‚ but highlights the division between "woman’s concept of justice‚" which entails "social" and "individual influences‚ together with the details that shaped the specific act‚" and "[t]he prevailing law [which] is general‚ and therefore . . . inapplicable to the

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    In the play Trifles gender plays a huge part. When the detectives were looking for evidence or "motives" of why Mrs. Wright killed her husband they often times belittled the women. As the women searched for the small things that contributed to Mr. Wright’s death the men were looking at the bigger picture. In the end because the men brushed the women off‚ not taking into consideration their advice‚ the women ended up finding the real motive while the detectives totally missed it. In the play Fences

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    Trifles teach that perception can mislead one to erroneous thinking and give false a sense of what’s actually factual. As the play opens up you immediately realize that the men (county attorney‚ sheriff‚ and farmer) are making a business trip to figure out how Mrs. Henderson killed her husband‚ while the women (spouses of the sheriff and farmer) on the other hand tagged along to help a friend by gathering a few items that will comfort her during her imprisonment. The women actually felt as if they

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    Main Points

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    Writing Sample: Main Points Throughout reading the article on “Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers” by Josh Keller‚ there are a few points to pick up on. The first point being made is that some scholars say that students no a days have a more enhanced skill for writing. In other cases some are saying‚ by using online blogs and/or tweeting can cause a student to form bad writing habits and become less efficient in a classroom setting. A second point that’s made in the

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