Trifles Trifles is a play by Susan Glaspell that covers the lives of several women and the men in their lives. The story begins with the murder of one of their neighbors‚ Mr. Wright‚ who is suspected to have been killed by his wife. The local Sherriff‚ Peters‚ enlists the help of his friend Mr. Hale to investigate the crime. Their wives are willing to help solve the case‚ but are denied this opportunity by their husbands who believe that they should spend their time worrying about their female things
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Life was restrictive for women in the 1800s and early 1900s. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Susan Glaspell were two progressive women who believe in women obtaining more freedoms and rights. Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” a horrifying short story about a woman steadily descending into madness from the doings of her husband. Glaspell wrote‚ “A Jury of Her Peers” which is a short story concerning themes of crime and justice as detectives and their wives investigate the house of a crime scene where
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When looking at a crime scene you need to be attentive to every detail. Assumptions and not realizing something is important can make or break a case or put the wrong person in jail or let the murder get away. The Mr. Peters and Mr. Hale in the play Trifles are more attentive as to how Mr. Wright died and using that to determine the motive. The women pay more attention to the little details which eventually help them determine if Mrs. Wright had a motive in murdering Mr. Wright. Despite the differences
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This is a world where men deal with all the “real” problems in society and petty problems were left to the woman at home. Susan Glaspell describes this world in her drama “Trifles‚” written in 1916. Throughout the story‚ Glaspell uses both a male and female perspective to help illustrate the difference in importance in male and female work and respect. Susan Glaspell’s drama “Trifles” is more than a murder investigation; it is an attack on the gender inequalities of the time period. When the women
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Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a play about the effect of gender differences on perceptions of duty‚ law‚ and justice. When a character named John Wright was murdered‚ the Sheriff and County Attorney go to investigate his house‚ as it was believed his wife murdered him. As the two investigate‚ the Sheriff brought his wife Mrs. Peters and the neighbor of the Wrights that reported the event‚ Lewis Hale‚ brought his wife Mrs. Hale also to the house. While the women stayed in the house‚ they started to
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Susan Glaspell’s short play‚ “Trifles”‚ characterized her characters through the theme on gender difference. In this debate about gender dominancy in history‚ men took part as the head of household‚ providing for his family and working at his job‚ whether in farming or in the business world. For women‚ they take the role as housewives where women cook and clean for family‚ which men state that a woman’s place is in the kitchen. After women declare voting rights in the early twentieth century‚ women
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work of literature. Author Susan Glaspell is no exception to this rule. She uses her own dramatic technique in order to discuss the politics of gender‚ the unnoticed and repressed value of the role of women‚ the social and gender conventions in a male dominant society‚ freedom of speech‚ and the belief in woman’s rights. The technique she uses is the impact of being invisible. The use of one invisible character serves well to this purpose in one of Glaspell’s plays‚ Trifles. The invisible heroine controls
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Read the Powerpoint and the Play (copies attached in our Lessons Folder) and then answer the following questions: Try to make reference to certain scenes or lines by describing them ( you do not need exact page numbers) as you remember them‚ GIVE EXAMPLES. **Please type up your answers on a separate page using our regular Class format. DO NOT REPEAT THE QUESTIONS WITH YOUR ANSWERS!!!! 1. What is the relationship between the two women‚ Mrs. Peters‚ Mrs. Hale? How do they react to one another
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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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Heather Brown Professor Evermind English 1302 2 March 2012 The Irony in Trifles The play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell is set in the nineteenth century. A trifle is a thing of little value or importance‚ so in the play Trifles the irony of the story is quite humorous. In this time period women were not treated as equals‚ men believed women did not have as much intellect as themselves‚ and treated them accordingly. With this in mind the irony of the play revolves around how much better
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