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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Afan H Prof. Harshbarger English 111 13 Nov. 2010 Comparison Analysis The Yellow Wallpaper VS. Trifles Both‚ A play titled “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell and a short story called "The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ are alike in many ways. Both of these works of art were produced at a time when women did not have a lot to say‚ by authors who were pre-feminist. As we analyze the similarities between both works it is obvious that both are written by‚ to advocate and for‚ women
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“I heard she used to wear pretty clothes and be lively when she was Minnie Foster‚ one of those town girls singing in the choir” (1309) said the Wright’s neighbor‚ Mrs. Hale to Mrs. Peters‚ the sheriff’s wife. Susan Glaspell wrote the play‚ Trifles‚ which was published in 1916. This play is about a murder committed in a farmhouse in the Midwest‚ focusing on the meaning of Minnie Wright’s life and reasons behind killing her husband. The different assumptions and perceptions of the men and women in
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both take steps in order to take control of their lives. In both plays‚ the women come to a realization of a woman’s true meaning in life‚ which was not known before that. In A Doll’s House‚ the realization comes to Nora‚ but later in the play. In "Trifles"‚ the realization comes to Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters who were witnesses to their neighbors abuse. In A Doll’s House‚ Nora is married to Torvald‚ controls every aspect of her from her spending habits to what she wears to the ball. By the end of the
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In “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell‚ the obvious murderer of Mr. Wright is Mrs. Wright. It wasn’t difficult to figure out this because Mrs. Wright was acting suspicious when questioned by the sheriff and county attorney Hale. She seemed entirely calm for a person who had just lost their husband. The motive behind Mrs. Wright killing her husband is unsure‚ but whatever it is it took Mrs. Wright over the edge. However‚ one reason n for Mrs. Wright to kill her husband could be because of domestic abuse.
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Susan Glaspell’s‚“Trifles‚” Mrs. Peters is the round character. While being a supportive sheriff’s wife‚ Mrs.Peters would follow all the guideline set in place for her. Such as what to say and what to do to be an honorable female in a society the is ruled by men. In the play the men would make careless remarks that were meant to dishonor the women. For example‚ when they show concert for Mrs. Wright’s preserves because they might have frozen‚ Mr. Hale relates women’s chores to “trifles”. While the play
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become. For example many people think women are sensitive and innocent due to their femininity. Meanwhile men are expected to be tough and provide for their wives. Over time however these standards are slowly changing and become less relevant. In Trifles by Susan Glaspell the husband John Wright is found murdered in his bed. The first and only suspect is his wife. There are many reasons why she looks guilty. For instance she is in the bed when he is strangled and said she did not wake up. Also little
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Susan Glaspell’s one-act play‚ Trifles‚ weaves a tale of an intriguing murder investigation to determine who did it. Mrs. Wright is suspected of strangling her husband to death. During the investigation the sheriff and squad of detectives are clueless and unable to find any evidence or motive to directly tie Mrs. Wright to the murder. They are baffled as to how he was strangled by a rope while they were supposedly asleep side by side. Glaspell artfully explores gender differences between men and
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“Trifles” is a classic feminist play about two women’s secret discovery of a woman murdering her husband. “A Jury of her Peers” is another edition of this story. During the 1830’s‚ the “Temperance Movement” which was the very first American reform campaign to emphasize the brutality of domestic violence. Insisting that domestic violence was the direct influence of alcohol the reformers believed that survival of the alcoholic’s wife was dependent on her rights to control her own earnings‚ gain custody
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