Violence is extremely prevalent in society today. The media loves to expound on violent crimes and violent people, and sometimes these crimes involve murder. These murders are gory and occasionally hateful, which is why people are always interested in these murder cases. People want to know how the murder happened or why the murder happened, especially if the murders were committed by women since women are considered sweet and innocent. In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles, Mrs. Wright is not so innocent. She is accused of killing her husband by strangulation, and the trend of killing husbands continues in both the Hossack murder and in New York v Castor case. In the Hossack murder, Hossack murdered her husband with an ax. In Stacey Castor’s case,
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In Trifles, two women, a sheriff’s wife and a neighbor, were in Mrs. Wright’s house finding the evidence and destroying it, which implies the release of Mrs. Wright even though it is obvious from the evidence that she committed the crime. If the evidence was handled by a law enforcement officer, he or she would find a nervous woman practicing for murder. Because Hossack and Castor both had law enforcement officers look for evidence instead of allowing others to handle it, they were not as lucky. During Hossack’s trial, all the evidence and implications pointed to her. The jury decided that Hossack was “guilty as charged” (Hossack 193), and Castor faces the same results during her trial. At the end of these trials, one of these women felt relief while the other two received sentences that changed their lives for them and their families.
While these three women all committed murder, their journeys and their outcomes had many similarities but also many differences. All three women murdered their husbands in order to free themselves from their abusive husbands or even financial problems. For one woman, the lack of evidence brings her identity back to life, but for the other two women, the evidence leads them straight to jail as they are assuredly guilty of their
In Trifles, two women, a sheriff’s wife and a neighbor, were in Mrs. Wright’s house finding the evidence and destroying it, which implies the release of Mrs. Wright even though it is obvious from the evidence that she committed the crime. If the evidence was handled by a law enforcement officer, he or she would find a nervous woman practicing for murder. Because Hossack and Castor both had law enforcement officers look for evidence instead of allowing others to handle it, they were not as lucky. During Hossack’s trial, all the evidence and implications pointed to her. The jury decided that Hossack was “guilty as charged” (Hossack 193), and Castor faces the same results during her trial. At the end of these trials, one of these women felt relief while the other two received sentences that changed their lives for them and their families.
While these three women all committed murder, their journeys and their outcomes had many similarities but also many differences. All three women murdered their husbands in order to free themselves from their abusive husbands or even financial problems. For one woman, the lack of evidence brings her identity back to life, but for the other two women, the evidence leads them straight to jail as they are assuredly guilty of their