Harold Lloyd

“Women are used to worrying over trifles” (Gaspell 1158). says Mr. Hale in Susan Glaspell’s 1916 play Trifles. By making this statement, he illustrations the frame of mind that spurs Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters into action, representing the feminism in the play’s time. As the play intertwined into Glaspell’s mind, America was challenging its opinions on women. Women were challenging woman’s suffrage as well as control over their own bodies through birth control (Womans Suffrage Movement…).…

Imagine a child in the meadow wondering what life can be for him. Frank Lloyd Wright started his life as an imaginative thinker. His dream was to be able to create something new with his everlasting imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright's dream had inspired many to follow in his footsteps because his dream was to acomplish something that he could call his own. Frank Lloyd Wright was born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconson into a large welsh family (biography). Eventually, they settled in…

The first person I would have looked at in this case before looking at the evidence would have been Ms. Wrights’s son-in-law David. The reason is because he were found at the crime scene. The first thing I would have been wondering is why Mr. Hill was at his her house without her daughter. I would have found that unusual from the beginning. Then David Hill stated that he found Ms. Wright lying there and that he tried to revive her. That alone would have sent another red flag because if a normal…

In the early 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…

Mrs. Wright's creepy farmhouse in the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is the home of a very dark mystery. A man by the name of Mr. Wright, who was the husband of Mrs. Wright, is found dead in his bed. The sheriff and a detective investigate the crime scene and integrate Mrs. Wright but she said that he was strangled in his sleep by a rope. As the women look around the house they see that the house is full of clues and hints as to what happened to Mr. Wright, such as a towel left on the counter,…

Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers,” published in 1917, is a short story. That story focuses on women standing up for each other no matter the predicament. The conflicts of the story surround Minnie Wright, who is in jail on suspicion that she murdered her husband by strangling him. The story is told discursively through Martha Hale whose husband discovered the body of John Wright, Minnie Wright’s husband. In the story, readers are given background information about Minnie, but the story also…

In the play Trifles, the play write Susan Glaspell believes that women are being undressed by the men. This is shown throughout the story with the usage of several types of irony: dramatic, verbal, and situational. To starts of is an example from page 7, lines 73, “They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it.” This was stated by the Sheriff right when they came downstairs after the ladies found the quilt. This is an example of dramatic irony as the men expect the ladies to be…

The main goal during the abolition movement was to abolish slavery and grant African-Americans the same freedom as the whites had in America. The methods abolitionists used were images, oral testimony as well as printed narratives published in books, newspapers and pamphlets. By using a multi-media campaign, the abolitionists were able to create a more influential and powerful call to action to their audience. Works written by authors such as Frederick Douglass and Theodore Dwight Weld became…

political and religious issue, many influential people spoke out against slavery. For instance, abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, all wrote and spoke out against slavery in hopes of influencing others to abolish slavery. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery and wrote about his experiences. William Lloyd Garrison supported the immediate emancipation of slaves and started his own newspaper, the Liberator, to express his opinions.…

The character and role of black abolition in the 1800s was monumental and played an important role in the history of the United States with the eradication of slavery. Leading up to the Civil War, abolitionism created one of the fist times in the United States that white and blacks worked together to achieve the same goal, the immediate end of slavery. Although several other factors played a role in the eradication of slavery, the bravery and determination of the black abolitionists was by far…