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    Susan Glaspell's Trifles

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    all the cleaning‚ cooking‚ and the ones who took care of the children. Women didn ’t really start having jobs that paid till the 1920 ’s - 1930 ’s. But until then‚ the men did the majority of the work out in society. In a play called‚ Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell‚ which was written and took place in 1916‚ two women by the names of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters lived in a small town where a murder had just occurred. While the county attorney and the sheriff try and look for clues around the house and try

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    Portrait photography: A contemporary portal to artistic truth. By Alan Oakes Self Portrait‚ Annie Leibovitz You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger and more revealing than truth through a portrait. - Annie Leibovitz Robert Alan Oakes Art 480i Seminar The search for visual truth is a continuing quest. A pondering of ontology pushes our efforts and abilities as a homogenous culture

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    Victim or Suspect? Inciting a debate over the morality of keeping a secret‚ Susan Glaspell captivates reader’s minds in her story “A Jury of Her Peers.” Through the exploitation of the personalities of characters Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters‚ Glaspell explores the chronicles of the discovery and subsequent investigation of the murder of John Wright. As the story unfolds‚ the question becomes not “Who murdered John Wright” but rather “Why was John Wright murdered.” This leads to the idea that Mrs

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    The story “A Jury of Her Peers” was first published in 1917 and was based on a authors one act play “Trifles”. “Trifles” was written in 1916 by Susan Glaspell. Glaspell wrote the play after an experience she had while working for a Des Moines newspaper. The significance of the title of the play‚ “A Jury of Her Peers” is fitting because it is about a woman that is going to be judged for the murder of her husband by her peers. How her life was with him was going to give her motive for her actions

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    LITR240-1301B-07 PHASE5 IP

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    LITERATURE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 1 LITERATURE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 2 Describing or defining something as complex as literature we should look at it from each angle‚ or better yet as if it was under a microscope. It is always easier to understand something by seeing what makes up the sum of its parts. By taking the themes‚ settings and tone

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    always the case. Women were once not able to do something as simple as voting. They were given positions of lesser status in their personal‚ and professional lives. So from that oppression rose two works of literature which are Trifles (written by Susan Glaspell) and The Story of an Hour (written by Kate Chopin). I chose to compare The Story of an Hour with Trifles because The Story of an Hour had an interesting twist and I could see that deep‚ intricate thought was put into it. This research paper

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    In the 1960’s many things were going on. Although Charles Manson and his cult were committing crimes before the 60’s‚ this is when the most infamous murder occurred. Manson’s cult‚ The Family‚ murdered actress Sharon Tate‚ who was nearly nine months pregnant‚ and her four friends. Though‚ Manson wasn’t personally there when the crime happened‚ he sent them to do it. He even told them to make it as gruesome as possible. They stabbed each victim multiple times and wrote sayings on the wall in their

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    Trifles Feminist Analysis

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    In the play‚ “Trifles‚” Susan Glaspell demonstrates the inequality that occurs between men and women during the 20th century. From the opening scene‚ the two women are not given much attention unlike the men‚ until they are separated from them and become the main characters. Although the women are seen as inferior to men‚ they prove that they are much more capable as they are the ones who solve the case by thinking outside the box. They find the real motive behind Mrs. Wright’s action and are able

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    Setting If you haven’t read the play before then I suggest reading it before reading this summary on the symbolism of the play‚ otherwise you may not understand a word I’m typing. This is not an indepth summary of the play‚ enjoy! Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles is about two women discovering the real reason why Mrs. Wright killed her husband‚ they discovered it by just worrying over what the men called trifles. Mrs. Wright lived a lonely life‚ she was isolated and depressed. Her husband‚ who

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    Susan Glaspell’s writings “Trifles” and “A Jury of Her Peers’ are two pieces of literature that tell the tale of two women at a crime scene. With the exception of one scene‚ the two works are nearly identical in terms of story. Glaspell’s decision to write the story as both a play and a short story gives us a unique opportunity‚ the chance to view the story from a multitude of viewpoints. The play gives no clear protagonist‚ yet because of the nature of short stories Mrs. Hale is thrust into the

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