Personal experiences are often portrayed by symbols such as objects‚actions‚ or events in writing. For example‚ in the playwright Trifles by Susan Glaspell key ideas and characters are represented and developed through the use of symbols. The play starts off with the tragic news of Mr.Wright’s death and the search for the truth of who did it. Through out the play the women are left downstairs to gather things for Mrs.Wright while the men go up stairs to the crime scene. As Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale
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Susan Glaspell‚ writer of the drama play‚ Trifles‚ depicts the sad reality of men belittling women and coming second to men. The play’s title expresses the thought of woman being analytical. The women in the play were the only ones capable of figuring out minute clues and discovering that Mrs. Wright killed her husband. When George Henderson (the county attorney)‚ Henry Peters (the sheriff) with his wife‚ and Mr. and Mrs. Hale were investigating the crime scene. The men ignored and mocked Mrs. Hale
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words may make their appearance in similar text‚ they have different meanings. While sympathy is feeling compassion‚ sorrow‚ or pity for the hardships that another person encounters‚ empathy involves putting yourself in in the shoes of another. In Susan Glaspell’s short story‚ A Jury of Her Peers‚ Martha Hale demonstrates both of these commonly confused words. Martha Hale‚ the wife of Mr. Hale‚ is a resident of the farm close to the property of the Wrights’. Mrs.Hale used to be good friends with
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The word trifles means a thing of little meaning or value according to the free online dictionary. In the play we see a lot of trifles; to me these trifles are the material things that pretty much helped solve the case in the play‚ for example; the mess in the kitchen‚ the dirty towels and the fruit. Mrs. Peter (to the other woman): oh‚ her fruit; it did freeze. (To the lawyer.) She worried about that when it turned so cold. She said the fire’d go out and her jars would break. Sheriff (rises): well
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Response for Chapter 1 After read the book of Susan Sontag’s On Photography‚ the idea of essential of photography comes into my mind. Photography is really important in our daily life. It can capture the moments of the life‚ whatever it is happy or upset. In this book‚ the writer discusses how perspective changing through by photography. In chapter one‚ Sontage gives readers a idea which “the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole
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With the touch of a single click a picture is taken and forever revitalized. Photography takes the essence of memory and seals it into the history of those involved in the process. Susan Sontag’s didactic text “On Photography” digs deep into the meaning of photography and claims that it has unlimited power within modern society. Her exclamation that “cameras are fantasy-machines” exerts the idea that photography brings the world closer together‚ yet seems so distant as if it were all but an illusion
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as someone who is tired of how their gender is being treated and wants equality between both genders. Born Susan Brownell Anthony on February 15‚ 1820‚ is known to be one of the first feminist during her time. She had many contributions in fighting for women’s rights during her entire life. She is one of the more famous and well known women through out her generation and will continue to
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Susan B. Anthony Justice is defined as a concept of moral rightness and fairness. In the 1800s‚ gender inequality was a huge conflict. Men were able to own land and open businesses‚ while women weren’t even given the right to open up a bank account. However‚ the uprising of reform movements was beginning during this time as well. One enormously great movement that came to be‚ was the woman’s suffrage movement. Susan B. Anthony was a crucial member of this historical endeavor. She dedicated her
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2014 Introduction/Thesis: Susan B Anthony was one of the most influential women in American history. Susan was not only influential but heroic in her doings as an abolitionist‚ educational reformer‚ labor activist‚ and last but most definitely not last a women’s rights activist. Susan believed that the same rights should be granted to all regardless of race or sex. This mindset was a complete one eighty from the way of thinking back then. Paragraph One: Susan B Anthony born in Adams Massachusetts
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Susan B. Anthony Susan Brownell Anthony was the pioneer and key spokesperson for the 19th century women’s suffrage movement. She was and activist‚ reformer‚ teacher‚ and lecturer. Anthony was born in South Adams‚ Massachusetts‚ 15 Feb.‚ 1820. The second of eight children‚ Susan learned to read and write at age three. In 1826‚ when she was six years old‚ the family moved to Battenville‚ New York. Susan attended a local district school‚ where a teacher refused to teach her
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