stiffly replies to the Court Attorney’s trite comment about the untidy appearance of Mrs. Wright’s house. Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell‚ was a play written for the Cape Cod Provincetown Players in 1916. Glaspell exposes sexism during this time period. Her play would later become the benchmark of the feminist movement and give her a reputation as a writer sensitive to these issues. Glaspell characterizes social stigma in this play with the murder of John Wright‚ the insensitive husband of Mrs. Wright. The
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Susan Glaspell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright‚ actress‚ novelist‚ and journalist. Glaspell wrote the play Trifles which tells the story two investigations being conducted over murder of John Wright. While the male characters of the play conduct an “official” investigation the female characters find themselves inadvertently conducting their own “unofficial” investigation. However this is not a run-of-the-mill murder mystery play‚ in which the focus lies solely on discovering the
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Outside Speech Assignment After I watched the speech which was gave by Bill Gates in June 08‚ 2007 on the Harvard commencement‚ I felt more interesting in Bill Gates. According to the information offered by woopidoo.com‚ we can find the Biography of Bill Gates‚ which said‚ “Bill Gates is one of the most influential people in the world. He is cofounder of one of the most recognized brands in the computer industry with nearly every desk top computer using at least one software program from Microsoft
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Outside Speaker My family and I decided to go to church on Sunday November 17th for reason of not going for a long time because of our busy lifestyles. We go to First Lutheran Church right here in Marshall‚ MN. Recently the church got a new pastor named Scott Fuller. Since my family is not morning people we went to the 10 o’clock service instead of the 8 o’clock service that Sunday. The theme for the church service was “make a joyful noise unto the lord” (Psalm 100:1). With the theme being about
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Strengths: Susan Rawlings is an ambitious mother who uses intelligence and logic as the core of every decision.2 Susan does not allow minor issues‚ although drastic to most‚ ruin her marriage.3 Susan’s ability to step down from her position at an advertising firm and manage as a stay-at-home mom shows her ability to dedicate time to her family.4 Susan knows the value of her marriage because she thinks things through and considers her husbands feelings before admitting her condition to him.5 Susan’s
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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 to
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traditions of the part of the world it comes from. In the same respect‚ American Literature has focused on our own‚ American values‚ such as freedom‚ honor and the different rights of men and women. In "Trifles" and "The Inheritors" both written by Susan Glaspell‚ we observe different qualities found in women and men and how are depicted in different light. The strong feeling of women being the caretakers at home is the first that we see. In both pieces of literature‚ we see the women always in the
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significant emotion is happiness. Happiness can range from something as a big as winning the power ball to something as miniscule as a pet. The miniscule things are what tie us down‚ and make sure we stay sane. In the play Trifles by the playwright Susan Glaspell the thing that tied down a Midwestern farmwife Minnie Wright‚ was her little canary. The one miniscule thing that kept her sane from all of the sadness that surrounded her caused by her emotionally abusive husband. With the death of it‚ came the
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enviously--whole person…..beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind” -here she explains how theirs two types of beauty the “inside” beauty and the “outside” beauty. In Susan Sontag informative piece entitled “Beauty” she discusses her logical thoughts of the beauty of a women and a men‚ and of how beauty has changed over the centuries. Susan uses Logical appeals to evoke her philosophy of beauty. She says “The privileges of beauty are immense” said Cocteau. To be sure‚ beauty is a form of
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Victoria Mendoza Kelsi Vanada The Interpretation of Literature 02 October 2014 Setting: More than Meets the Eye “You’re convinced that there was nothing important here—nothing that would point to any motive?” (Glaspell 1128). “Nothing here but kitchen things” (Glaspell 1128). This is his greatest mistake. Little does he know that there is more to this gloomy‚ disorganized kitchen than he thinks. In fact‚ all the answers he is looking for are right in that room. In Trifles‚ the kitchen is the
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