LAW‚ JUSTICE‚ AND FEMALE REVENGE IN "KERFOL"‚ BY EDITH WHARTON‚ AND TRIFLES AND "A JURY OF HER PEERS"‚ BY SUSAN GLASPELL Janet Stobbs Wright Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU (Elche) In 1916‚ Edith Wharton and Susan Glaspell coincided in each telling the story of a different fictional murderess. Although both works are written within different genres‚ there are striking similarities between the situations of these women who murdered their husbands. Even more arresting is the choice of the plot
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Moral Decisions It is so easy to set back and judge others for their decisions but if the one judging puts their self in the other person’s situation it is not so easy to say what they would really do. In the two plays Antigone and Trifles‚ there are two characters‚ Antigone and Mrs. Peters‚ which are prominent due to their decision-making process. In these two plays‚ both Antigone and Mrs. Peters make very important decisions based on what is right or wrong. Their decisions are life-changing‚
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ii. Are unique iii. Throw new light on an old story iv. Debunk wrong popular beliefs v. Promote speculation and imagery among the readers * Interpretative Feature Interpretative features inform‚ and throw light in the background of certain problems. The following topics are usually discussed under the heading of interpretative feature:- i. Social Problems ii. Economic Problems iii. Political Problems iv. Problems of everyday life. * Popularized Scientific Feature
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decay‚ or pass away gradually‚ but love do devour a person. It can consume them and take over all aspects of the mind and the heart. In the second stanza‚ it reads that “Ah‚ what trifle is a heart‚ (9) if once into love’s hand it come!” (10). Being that trifle has the meaning of little importance or value. Trifle is a metaphoric symbol showing that the heart is of little value when dealing with feelings of love. It doesn’t mean much for love to have the heart as a whole if only “once” it’s taken
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Semiotics for Beginners Daniel Chandler Glossary of Key Terms * Abduction: This is a term used by Peirce to refer to a form of inference (alongside deduction and induction) by which we treat a signifier as an instance of a rule from a familiar code‚ and then infer what it signifies by applying that rule. * Aberrant decoding: Eco’s term referring to decoding a text by means of a different code from that used to encode it. See also: Codes‚ Decoding‚ Encoding and decoding
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being concerned with "trifles"‚ which is the women ’s things. But‚ in point of fact‚ it ’s amongst these "trifles" that proof of Mrs. Wright ’s innocence or guilt lie. Perhaps number one is the relationship between gender and power in American culture‚ though definitely in the early 20th century. Our generation today would not let things like this happen. Each person has his or her own right. The principal idea is to see that the women‚ thought to be dealing with only trifles‚ saw the little things
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Using the research that you have completed for your Ephesians exegetical paper‚ what do you think is the main idea of the book? Why? Looking back on all the research I collected for my Ephesians exegetical paper‚ I conveyed the idea that the topic of the book of Ephesians was based around the subject of salvation and the church. The idea of this book seem to form a demonstration of understanding that the world separated from God is under its own self harm of judgement of disbelief and the final
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The Witch Edilberto K. Tiempo First Dimension (Literal Comprehension) 1. Who was Tio Sabelo? 2. What is an Awok? 3. Who was Minggay Awok? 4. Where did Minggay live? 5. What is a Wakwak? Second Dimension (Interpretative Comprehension) 1. What are the characteristics of the protagonist and the antagonist? 2. Why was Minggay feared in Libas and the surrounding barrios? 3. What minor characters appear in the story‚ and what roles do these characters play in advancing the action of
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might even go as far to say that more thought is put in to the title versus the story. While story titles are important play titles are even more important it must draw people in to the theater to watch. Two play titles that are very intriguing are Trifles and a Doll House‚ because of how they show a small part of the story in just a few words. A Doll House is a play written by Henrik Ibsen and was performed at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen‚ Denmark‚ on 21 December 1879. A Doll House is a play about
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living at that time because they had a specific role to live up to‚ and that role was being housewives to the men. The early 20th Century was a male dominated society. Glaspell uses character names‚ Irony in the title‚ and symbolism in the play‚ “Trifles” to reveal the roles in which women play‚ and the harm it brings to women and also men in the early 20th Century. In the play‚ there are two characters that are never seen‚ Mr. and Mrs. Wright. Mr. Wright plays off the social stereotype that women
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