such as; yellow for happiness‚ green-content‚ blue-despair‚ and finally orange symbolizes joy. The short story titled Trifles written by Susan Glaspell expresses the issue women faced in the early eighteenth century of oppression and discrimination. Through Mrs. Peters and Hales unwillingness to share the discovery of a dead bird to authorial figures‚ Glaspell conveys to the audience that women have been socially oppressed by men. Mrs. Wright represents many women during this time period‚ so while
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Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” are both pieces of literature written by Susan Glaspell. They detail they events which occurred in a house after a man died there. This causes them to be quite similar. However the two works are not completely the same. One is a play and this lends it to being written differently than the other which is a short story. While these two writings are similar in some ways‚ they are quite different in others. The two stories are very different in a number of ways
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create their own stories; this is exactly the case for the creations of “Trifles” written in the early 1900’s by Susan Glaspell. Glaspell was one of the feministic writers of the early twentieth century that promoted her personal ideas. Her ideas of feminism were influenced by her social idealistic writer husband‚ George Cook.”I began writing plays because my husband forced me to” (Glaspell). The oppression of women back then was to the point that they were not fully acknowledged as their own person
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Hale and Mrs. Peters both had a feeling that Mr. Wright killed the bird‚ “wrung-its-neck” (Glaspell 260)‚ which I think determines the mindset of the women for the rest of the story. This is the point that is a very significant turning point in the story due to the fact that the two woman hide the evidence they have found and not only hide it but
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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 will
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The play “Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell contains many literary elements that support the theme of the play. There are many themes discussed in this one act play. Some of these themes include: patriarchal dominance and male chauvinism‚ law and duty‚ and justice. The main theme‚ although there are many‚ is patriarchal dominance‚ meaning that men believe that they are above women in all circumstances. This mindset is very common among the men in this play; the men infer that the women are not capable
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Susan Glaspell’s short story “A Jury of Her Peers” is more effective than her play Trifles at depicting the marginalization of women. Given only the text of the stories‚ and not taking into consideration the acting in the play‚ “Jury” far surpasses Trifles in conveying how women were basically disregarded as having any insight into “manly” matters such as a murder investigation. Trifles was written in 1916 and “Jury” was written in 1917. During this time period women were thought to be lower than
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and women. People viewed men as the workers who bring home the money and are more powerful and capable of doing things. Women were viewed as housekeepers‚ basically to stay home all day‚ clean the house‚ prepare food‚ and take care of the kids. In Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” Gender roles were shown through how men and women think‚ their “capabilities”‚ and intelligence. All of the action in the play takes place in the home of the former Mr. John Wright and his wife Minnie Wright‚ who is
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Christian Camargo Susan Glaspell: A Woman Committed to Every Woman In the process of women’s emancipation as autonomous entities in a male-dominated society‚ literature‚ as the powerful mean of conversion that it is‚ has been one of their most strong weapons to successfully launch their critical‚ social comments against the oppression of their male counterparts. Female writing emerges out of this struggle to be acknowledged today as a separate category of scholarly interest. Among many important
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