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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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    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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    ISOLATION OF TRIMYRISTIN FROM NUTMEG ABSTRACT The purpose if the experiment was to extract the Trimyristan from ground nutmeg using extraction‚ distillation and recrystallization procedures. This experiment involves extraction and separation techniques that yield a purified product. The product was extracted and a distillation process was used to remove any remaining solvent. The recrystallization of the sample in turn produced a pure sample‚ which was proven using the known melting

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    Murderer: Anangnorisis and Dianoia in Trifles The play Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell and written in 1916‚ is set in a time period when women were contained to the limits in which their gender role was of use in a patriarchal society. Housewives were often isolated within the domestic sphere and degraded to being merely characters of superficial and physical value. As a result‚ women were often divided amongst each other. The treatment of anagnorisis and dianoia in Trifles reflects the ways in which the

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    Isolation or Involvement in WWII: Debate As our nation’s sixteenth President once said‚ “Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation‚ whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion‚ and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose- and you allow to make war at pleasure”(Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 38). This quote from Abraham Lincoln exemplifies the time before the United States joined into World War 2. Many

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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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    For my thematic thread‚ I chose to answer the question of how isolation impacts the individual. The topic first peaked my interest primarily because I initially wanted to know how one’s subjective views and the ideas presented by their culture merged to help establish new perspectives. However‚ I soon realized that isolation is the best circumstance to evaluate such a thought‚ for it is a state where the mind is most vulnerable to exploring both new and preexisting concepts‚ thus making one more

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