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    wedding. Meanwhile‚ Beatrice and Benedick are obviously in love but are both too afraid to tell one other. Their lack of communication throughout the play causes problems‚ but in the end they confess their love for each other. Beatrice acts as the foil character of Hero‚ by which Beatrice’s sarcastic comments are illuminated through Hero’s kindness; this adds to both of their characterization.

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    “Jury of Her Peers” and Trifles are two of the same story‚ one being a play‚ the other a short story. They both have some similarities but but also have some differences. The stories are almost the same as they do give out the same story of an investigation of a murder inside a farm home. They each tell the reader some information on what each the characters do and say. In both the stories‚ you find that one of the characters‚ Mrs. Hale‚ has an issue of things not not being finished as “it

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    "Trifles" and "A Jury of Her Peers" Susan Glaspell The “Trifles” and “A Jury Of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell are very similar in the way that they both have got the same basic plot . However ‚ one of them that is the trifles is a play and the other one is a short narrative story. According to me the story was easier to read and more clear to the reader as to how the various events were taking place but the play was difficult to understand as it was open ended it was made not very clear and also

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    Susan Glaspell’s writings “Trifles” and “A Jury of Her Peers’ are two pieces of literature that tell the tale of two women at a crime scene. With the exception of one scene‚ the two works are nearly identical in terms of story. Glaspell’s decision to write the story as both a play and a short story gives us a unique opportunity‚ the chance to view the story from a multitude of viewpoints. The play gives no clear protagonist‚ yet because of the nature of short stories Mrs. Hale is thrust into the

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    While getting ready for the meeting and applying her makeup Louise‚ said‚ “I hope Heather’s still out of town‚”Looking in the full length mirror‚ Louise admired the forty-four- year-old woman who had given birth to three children and still maintained a perfect weight. Before dressing‚ she strutted in front of the mirror in her bra and panties admiring her slim body. She spoke with jealously‚ “Those bitches are just jealous.” Driving to her meeting‚ Louise remembered she left her water bottle at

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    The use of the two romantic situations as foils suggests a deeper connection between personal nature and its ability to endow one with true love and happiness. In Turgenev’s novel‚ true love affairs and happiness are those that involve the casting aside of dominance and assertion. It is the destiny

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    You’re Breaking Free A symbol in Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles that really stands out to me is the bird cage. The drama Trifles is about Mrs. Wright who kills her husband and an investigation conducted by the sheriff‚ county attorney‚ and their wives Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Pete. The bird cage symbolizes her marriage which is like a cell or a jail that Mr. Wright is keeping her in. We see Mrs. Wright as a happy person who: “. . . used to wear pretty clothes and be lively‚ when she was Minnie Foster‚ one

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    SETTING AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE: Trifles takes place in an agricultural area in the American Midwest. The name of the county the play is set in is Dickson County. The time that Trifles is set in is the late 1800’s. The setting heavily influences the characters in the play. Their diction is typical of that area and time period. It is possible to judge that the characters do not have extensive educations based on the area they were brought up in. This is because in agricultural areas children have

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    Name: ______________________________ Date: ________________________ Period: ______ “Trifles” Literary Response and Analysis Questions Directions: Read the questions carefully. Respond to each thoroughly‚ insightfully and correctly in complete sentences. Answers are worth two points each. 1. What attitudes toward women do the Sheriff and the County Attorney express? How do Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters react to these statements? 2. Why does the County Attorney care so much

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    Tiara Mitchell English 11 BXN 9/20/2013 Question 2: Write an essay comparing the views of marriage in Trifles and Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour’ (p 16). The theme in “Story of an hour” by Kate Chopin and Trifles by Susan Glaspell is marriage. Both stories are similar in that both Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Mallard lose their individual identity as a result of male domination. While Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Mallard show this similarity they are different in how they feel about their

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