Birdcage

Being one of the highest paying professionals, successful actor and hilarious comedian, best known by his real name, Robin Williams, was born on July 21, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois. He developed an unconditional love for his style in a stand-up comedy. He achieved his own T.V. show called Mork and Mindy (1978-1972), and played many important parts, one with with Robert Altman in the film Popeye (1980). He played multiple remarkable movie roles, both comical and sensational. After only three…

In Susan Glaspell’s Trifles John and Minnie Wright are the focus of the play and surprisingly its biggest mystery. These two characters are never physically introduced; the strength in John and the fragility of Minnie are only revealed through the dialogue that the other characters partake in. The Wrights are introduced as complete opposites, therefore it is no surprise that one partner-John- whole-heartedly dominates the other-Minnie. Coincidently this imbalance is also seen in the societal…

Such a thing like the bread that has been left out of the box, an unfinished quilt, a half clean half messy table, and an empty birdcage. So, the men are looking for physical evidence but the women in Susan Glaspell's Trifles noticed clues that reveal a sad and lonely tale of Mrs. Wright’s life. They concluded that Mr. Wright’s cold, oppressive nature must have been too much for…

Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for “Allison’s House”, Susan Glaspell is responsible for creating the high school nation-read One-Act Play known as “Trifles”. Published in 1916, Glaspell defied the harshest restrictions set for women and shared her talent with readers all throughout the country. Back then, it was infrequent to hear about women completing such a major act. However, publication became an ordinary habit for Susan Glaspell. Additionally, Glaspell would often write about the…

Women’s Roles in Society Over the centuries, it has been accepted to be a societal norm for men to be the financial providers and women to tend to the domestic chores of the household. This view of the family has been expected by society which sets the rules of behavior which are considered acceptable. This concept of traditional gender roles envelopes the literary works by Susan Glaspell, William Faulkner, and Kate Chopin as their works focus on the roles of woman within the home. In their…

Minnie Wright in the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell and the Narrator in the short story “They Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman relate to each other through the oppressive lifestyles that they live caused by their controlling husbands. Both women are secluded from society by their husbands but for different reasons. In both Trifles and the “Yellow Wallpaper” one can see that there is a strict divide between female characters and male characters. In both stories, the women attempt to…

Forbidden Freedom In history, human rights have always been a problem, and yet to this day, it still remains. Specifically, in the past, women had adapted to live in a suppressed environment, solely because their limited rights have never allowed them to cross a certain boundary. In fact, the United States, foremost in the race of modernization in the world, enabled women to vote in 1920; however, prior to that, individualism, freedom, and equality did not exist in the dictionary for women.…

walked away. They tried to prove this, rather than try to understand her situation and her feelings, those little details than women were able to see and men not. This shows the empathy the women feel for each other. At the moment they found an empty birdcage started to wonder what happened to the bird. After a long talk and searching the women found the bird inside a box also strangled. Mrs. Hale decided to hide the dead bird in her coat pocket because she did not want to share that evidence…

1. Charlie had absolutely no idea where he was. He lay like a washed-up fish on some beach gazing up into a pink sky. Charlie’s body was wilted in the heat and sweat was pooling above his brow. His curly, red-brown hair was sticking to the sides of his head, wet curls plastered to his forehead like swirls of mahogany paint. His eyes were only half opened; they were blue. A really pretty blue, as his mother had always said. Like the ocean. Only, Charlie thought, not like this ocean. He glanced…

Characteristics of the MPDG? The 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' (MPDG) is a trope commonly found in modern literature and film. This stock character can be found in a wide variety of works, from that of classics such as Truman Capote to newcomers such as John Green. The term 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' was coined by Nathan Rabin, and was first used to describe Claire Colburn of the film “Elizabethtown". Rabin himself described the trope as "that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in…