Imagine one day if you were a victim of domestic violence? How would you solve that problem? If the life does not have a lot of thorns and challenges, everybody might have had happiness. Through the past, the present, or the future, people always need a happy life. In this society, nowadays, there are still a lot of women who are victims of domestic violence. Coming back to the 1900s, however, Mrs. Wright in the drama “Trifle” written by Susan Keating Glaspell in 1916, has no more joy in her life after she married. Mrs. Wright in particular and a lot of women in general were victims of an unjust society. At that time, women had no right to vote. In Glaspell’s drama, as a hidden character, Mrs. Wright is put in a position of killing her husband.
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Wright is in the jail, the canary is the only one that supports her. She is the suspect in the death of her husband, but she is absent in the drama. The life of the canary reflects the life of Mrs. Wright before and after marriage. Mrs. Hale tells Mrs. Peter the memory of Mrs. Wright’s youth in her regretful voice. Before marriage, she was Minnie Foster, who used to be an active girl with lovely clothes and sing in the choir with the town girls (Glaspell 774-775). Like the bird before being in the cage, she and her canary were independent. They found happiness from singing. Nevertheless, Ms. Wright's life has been bound in a low light house after marriage like a bird trapped in a cage. Mrs. Wright lost her freedom and joy. Also, the birdcage with a broken door, which is discovered by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, symbolizes the domestic violence in this situation. Since some of the acts of emotional abuse include threatening or hurting pets or forcing other people to do things that they do not want to do (Nichols par. 28), Mrs. Wright got received emotional abuse because her husband killed her pet. Nichols also points out the negative effects of victims who experience emotional abuse. She says emotional pains last longer than physical pains (Nichols par. 29). As the result, Ms. Wright must have suffered mental pain for a long time without sharing and help from
Wright is in the jail, the canary is the only one that supports her. She is the suspect in the death of her husband, but she is absent in the drama. The life of the canary reflects the life of Mrs. Wright before and after marriage. Mrs. Hale tells Mrs. Peter the memory of Mrs. Wright’s youth in her regretful voice. Before marriage, she was Minnie Foster, who used to be an active girl with lovely clothes and sing in the choir with the town girls (Glaspell 774-775). Like the bird before being in the cage, she and her canary were independent. They found happiness from singing. Nevertheless, Ms. Wright's life has been bound in a low light house after marriage like a bird trapped in a cage. Mrs. Wright lost her freedom and joy. Also, the birdcage with a broken door, which is discovered by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, symbolizes the domestic violence in this situation. Since some of the acts of emotional abuse include threatening or hurting pets or forcing other people to do things that they do not want to do (Nichols par. 28), Mrs. Wright got received emotional abuse because her husband killed her pet. Nichols also points out the negative effects of victims who experience emotional abuse. She says emotional pains last longer than physical pains (Nichols par. 29). As the result, Ms. Wright must have suffered mental pain for a long time without sharing and help from