Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright‚ actress‚ novelist‚ and journalist. Glaspell wrote the play Trifles which tells the story two investigations being conducted over murder of John Wright. While the male characters of the play conduct an “official” investigation the female characters find themselves inadvertently conducting their own “unofficial” investigation. However this is not a run-of-the-mill murder mystery play‚ in which the focus lies solely on discovering the culprit and the culprit’s motive.
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The significance of a title is not always easy to discover and the full significance of the title becomes apparent to the reader only gradually. In A Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill‚ the significance of the title is developed through the title’s importance to each of O’Neill’s characters. Tyrone‚ Mary‚ Jaime‚ and Edmund carry different meanings of the title. The words long and night play a major role in the importance of the title to each character. Both words can have multiple meanings
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The short story Trifles‚ written in 1916 by Susan Glaspell‚ portrays this type of confusion in the play. The two women questioned their values and their beliefs towards justice when they were struggling against Mrs. Wright’s hidden clues‚ their own concepts of justice‚ and the men’s demeaning attitudes to achieve
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Gender in As You Like It One of the most intriguing aspects of the treatment of love in As You Like It concerns the issue of gender. And this issue‚ for obvious reasons‚ has generated a special interest in recent times. The principal reason for such a thematic concern in the play is the cross dressing and role playing. The central love interest between Rosalind and Orlando calls into question the conventional wisdom about men’s and women’s gender roles and challenges our preconceptions about these
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY Tyler Petri May 20‚ 2014 The Significance of Responsibility Responsibility is defined by two pertinent definitions in our language. The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone; the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something. These definitions form a relevant point in the substance of this essay‚ where I will discuss what responsibility is‚ types of responsibility‚ why this value is important
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Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles”‚ takes place in an abandoned farmhouse‚ where the owner‚ Mrs. Wright‚ had allegedly murdered her husband. The play is mainly based around Mrs. Hale‚ the wife of the man who found Mr. Wright‚ and Mrs. Peters who is the wife of the sheriff‚ who is investigating the murder. The women mainly stay in the kitchen‚ while their misogynist husbands investigate‚ however the women are the ones who solve the crime. Susan Glaspell’s theme of “Trifles” was how marriage can strip
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James Craig 28 September 2014 Trifles “There’s a great deal of work to be done on a farm” (1389)‚ Mrs. Hale stiffly replies to the Court Attorney’s trite comment about the untidy appearance of Mrs. Wright’s house. Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell‚ was a play written for the Cape Cod Provincetown Players in 1916. Glaspell exposes sexism during this time period. Her play would later become the benchmark of the feminist movement and give her a reputation as a writer sensitive to these issues. Glaspell
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”(Chopin 517). On the other hand the play Trifles‚ has the same moral as‚ “the story of an hour” but a completely different outcome. This play is about a couple that does not take any part in the play‚ and we only learn about them throughout the character’s dialogue. As in the story Mr. Wright is killed by his wife Mrs. Wright. The way the play closes shows us that her reasoning for murdering her husband is more than just an unhappy marriage. Although both plays are harshly critical of the institution
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In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles‚ John Wright is a farmer who has been murdered by an unlikely suspect‚ his wife‚ Mrs. Wright. The County Attorney‚ Sheriff‚ and Mr. Hale thoroughly scour for evidence of a motive to prove Mrs. Wright’s guilt. But little did the men know that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters had already uncovered the key evidence they were looking for. In Trifles‚ Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters discover what seems to be trivial evidence but when connected‚ reveals Mrs. Wright’s true motive for
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