Birdcage

the house. It also points that she was too busy planning for her husband’s murder to care for the house. The theme of oppression is evident in the play by Trifles. First, it is represented by the symbol of the birdcage and the bird. The women in the play thoroughly investigate the birdcage that they found in the kitchen. Upon their investigation, they found it to be broken and the bird is missing and on further investigation they found the bird but it was strangled. It is at this juncture that…

Peters, and Mrs. Hale. Lewis Hale explains about finding Mr. Wright acting strangely while she told him that her husband was murdered while she was asleep. During the investigation the women soon discover reason for action in the form of an empty birdcage and eventually discover a dead bird in Mrs. Wright’s sewing basket. The bird had been strangled in the same fashion as John Wright and instead of bringing it forward to the sheriff the women decide to hide it. As the investigation proceeds the…

In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, she uses the literal definition of the word ‘trifle’ and develops the word into a concept of revealing the bigger picture through the women characters in the story. The definition of the word trifle has several different interpretations. As a noun the dictionary says that it can be “a thing of little value or importance” or as a verb in third person says “treat (someone or something) without seriousness or respect” (Webster 1966). Both of these book…

“A Jury of Her Peers”, published in 1927, written Susan Glaspell, is a short story based on the 1900 murder of John Hossack. The short story was originally written as a one-act play in 1916. In 1950, the short story then became an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Years to follow, in 1980 the short story became a short film that was nominated for an Academy Award. Growing up in a town that did not believe in women’s rights to employment and education, Glaspell still…

The emptiness of the birdcage suggests imprisonment and isolation of Minnie Wright. Although the bird is missing, the presence of a cage connects to Mrs. Wright’s situation, isolated as she was in her husband’s house. Holstein puts it: Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters also remember…

Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Peters discover a birdcage and a dead bird within it. The birdcage and the bird both can relate to the former husband and wife. The cage represents the man by surrounding the bird so it is not able to escape, and the bird represents the woman who is trapped behind the bars of the cage. The man…

1900's, the men seemed to rule the world while women had the job of being a good housewife, but Mrs. Wright changed that. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters notice many details that seem peculiar: how the sewing on one block of the quilt is askew, the damaged birdcage under the cupboard, and the deceased animal in a box wrapped in silk. In "Trifles,” Susan Glaspell challenges the idea that women are inferior to men through the use irony, detailed imagery, and symbols. Irony is used to show that the men…

According to Crimefeed.com, there was a female bounty hunter who was chasing down a fugitive which none her male colleagues could catch. She had a different approach though, she researched him and found out what he loved which was a movie starring a female celebrity. Using this, she created a bogus story line and invited him to audition, when he arrived for his “audition” she had in handcuffs within minutes. Similar to this situation, Susan Glaspell shows how the men’s sexist attitude blinds…

Female Interaction in Trifles When and over what do females bond? In Susan Glaspell’s frequently anthologized play Trifles, women are able to identify with each other in situations that have strong domestic undertones. Written in 1916, Trifles expertly implies the hardships that women bonded over in married suburban life. As Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters go around Minnie Wright’s kitchen, they unravel both her hobbies and hardships and are able to empathize with her wrongdoings. The play can be…

evidence of anger or sudden change in mood in Mrs. Wright, then they can solve the case. Although Mrs. Wright claims to have been asleep during her husband’s murder, the women conclude she strangled her husband, Mr. Wright, as evidenced by the broken birdcage,…