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    The Structure of Trifles

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    The Structure of Trifles Susan Glaspell‚ author of the play Trifles quickly grabs the audience’s attention by her use of details about the set. The set is in complete disarray and noted by County Attorney when he says “Not much of a housekeeper‚ would you say‚ ladies?” The story centers around five individuals who are inside the home of a woman who is suspected of murdering her husband. Three men (a neighbor‚ a sheriff‚ and a county attorney) are walking around the home trying to

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    Essay on the Play Trifles

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    Essay on the Play Trifles Introduction In Susan Glaspell ’s‚ "Trifles‚" symbolism is used to emphasize the meaning of the play. Glaspell writes of a woman who murdered her husband because he was to blame for her cold and lonely life [1]. Susan Glaspell wrote Trifles in 1916‚ basing this brief‚ one-act play on the murder of the sixty-year-old John Hossack‚ which she had covered extensively during her stint as a journalist with the Des Moines Daily News after her graduation from Drake University

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    Gender Roles in Narnia

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    Regarded as one of the most beloved children books of the twentieth century‚ C. S. Lewis’ The Lion‚ the Witch and the Wardrobe has found its way into the prolific canon of British literature and into the hearts of both children and adults alike. Published in 1950‚ this tale of a frost-bitten wood‚ fauns‚ and other fantastic events is masterfully written to appeal to all ages. Set during World War II in England‚ four children are sent to live with an old professor in a mansion in the English countryside

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    Symbolism of Trifles

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    visible or sensuous representations. Looking at the symbolism from different perspectives gives a whole new meaning to the story. At first glance Trifles may seem to be an ordinary murder mystery. However when digging deeper into the play we see that Susan Glaspell puts many various symbols into the story which gives the reader a more open sense of what the characters are thinking or their reasoning. In the beginning of the play Glaspell begins with the symbolism of Mrs. Wright in the rocking chair

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    Protagonist in Trifles

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    The controversial question that ambles‚ then gains every readers eye and eventually turns into a debate when reading Susan Glaspell’s one act play‚ Trifles‚ is who is the protagonist? There are seven characters in Trifles and only one of them is the protagonist. One might argue that Mrs. Peters or Mrs. Hale is the protagonist because of the disclosure of their feelings and their constant dialogue about Mr. Wright‚ who is dead‚ and Mrs. Wright‚ who is now in jail for murdering her husband. No‚ there

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    Trifles Vs. A Jury of Her Peers A Jury of Her Peers and Trifles by Susan Glaspell are very similar stories. The stories are about the marginalization of women in society. The roles of women as workers were downgraded a lot‚ never taking into account just how hard the work is doing all of the household chores every day‚ and preparing and planning for the future. In the stories‚ they are treated like they do not mean anything in the workforce and are only there to serve the world and the men in

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    Inequality in Trifles

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    The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell takes place in a bleak‚ untidy kitchen of a farmhouse. Farmer John Wright has been murdered and his wife‚ Minnie Wright‚ is taken into custody as a suspect to his murder. Sheriff Peters and County Attorney George Henderson pride themselves on their powers of detection and logical reasoning. They begin searching through the house trying to find any sort of evidence. But it is the two women‚ Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale‚ who discover the trifles in which is the key

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    The Role of Women in Trifles and The Jewelry In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles‚ written around 1915‚ the role of women is superior to the men’s role and in Guy de Maupassant’s story‚ The Jewelry‚ the woman has an inferior role‚ and in the end‚ we find out that she was not a faithful wife. As the two stories are set at the turn of the twentieth century‚ the readers come to believe that women were not treated with much respect or thought to be intelligent; they were merely there to make children and

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    "A Jury of Her Peers" was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. She wrote the play in 1916‚ and a year later she rewrote it as a short story. Glaspell was inspired to write the story while covering a murder investigation when she worked as a journalist for the Des Moines Daily News (qtd. in Annenberg). The theme of the story‚ the way men view the stereotypical role of women and the isolation created by society because of that view‚ is revealed as the other women try to

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    February 5‚ 2009 Writing II (B286) R. Mullins What Makes Prince Caspian Tick Throughout C.S. Lewis’s novel “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”‚ we see many processes at work. Some of these processes are literally in front of the reader’s face‚ and others are deeply hidden within the work. One of the most noticeable processes in the entire work is the battle between Peter and Miraz‚ and of course the steps leading up to it. Without these steps and the ultimate battle‚ the book of Prince

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