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    YOUR ANSWERS!!!!   1.      What is the relationship between the two women‚ Mrs. PetersMrs. Hale? How do they react to one another and to Mrs. Wright? How do they react to then men? BE SPECIFIC   The relationship between the two Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale is that one is the wife of the sheriff in charge of the investigation of a murder that other in company of her husband found. They develop a similar felling for Mrs. Wright through the play. They defended Minnie of the cruel comments and false

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    her play‚ “Trifles” in the early 1900s. The opening of the one-act play starts by introducing the characters that are; the young and arrogant County Attorney named George Henderson‚ Henry Peters who is the sheriff along with his wife‚ as well as neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Hale. The three men immediately walk into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wright‚ while the women wait uncomfortably in the foyer. The men gather around a fire as Mr. Henderson explains what he witnessed the day of the murder. Mr. Henderson

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    SETTING AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE: Trifles takes place in an agricultural area in the American Midwest. The name of the county the play is set in is Dickson County. The time that Trifles is set in is the late 1800’s. The setting heavily influences the characters in the play. Their diction is typical of that area and time period. It is possible to judge that the characters do not have extensive educations based on the area they were brought up in. This is because in agricultural areas children have

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    Written Comp. Chris Bailey 4 April 2014 In the play “Trifles”‚ the police are investigating the scene. Lewis Hale tells how he discovered Mrs. Wright was acting weird when she told him that her husband was murdered while she was sleeping. Although a gun had been in the house‚ Mrs. Wright had been strangled with a rope. While the men are investigating upstairs‚ the women discover an empty birdcage and eventually finds the dead bird in a box in Mrs. Wright’s sewing basket while they are searching for

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    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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    Jake Kranz English I Mrs. Davison 8 March‚ 2014 Complete Opposites             A foil is not just something to wrap around. The foils that William Shakespeare refers to are when two characters are complete opposites of each other. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ he displays a few examples of a foil. In the story that is told‚ the Montague family is at war and hates the Capulet family and the feeling is mutual. The families have been at war for generations and are constantly getting

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    brittle when warm‚ reducing its malleability greatly‚ and the tin foil created a strange aftertaste‚ which was undesirable to many. During the beginning of the 1800s‚ scientists and companies began to experiment with aluminum foil. Reynolds Wrap‚ started by Richard Reynolds‚ became the first company to use aluminum foil instead of tin. His reasons were simple and logical: aluminum rolled thinner than tin‚ increasing the amount of foil the company could produce on the same amount of money‚ while also

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    Inequality in Trifles

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    The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell takes place in a bleak‚ untidy kitchen of a farmhouse. Farmer John Wright has been murdered and his wife‚ Minnie Wright‚ is taken into custody as a suspect to his murder. Sheriff Peters and County Attorney George Henderson pride themselves on their powers of detection and logical reasoning. They begin searching through the house trying to find any sort of evidence. But it is the two women‚ Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale‚ who discover the trifles in which is the key

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    Irony in "Trifles"

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    Irony in “Trifles” The death of a man named John Wright begins the adventure to solving his murder. He was found hanged in his house; while his wife‚ Mrs. Wright‚ is questioned by the police she does not seem to be bothered by her husband’s death. As stated by Mr. Hale when speaking to Mrs. Wright‚ “I want to see John. And then she-laughed” (Glaspell 1048). In Glaspell’s play “Trifles” the two women‚ Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters‚ find many trifles through-out the house that the men consider to be

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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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