One-act play

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 oppression directed at women and revolve her stories plot’s around it. Being the author over roughly 74 pieces of works, in Trifles, Susan Glaspell uses symbolism to justify Mrs. Wright’s actions. A major way Glaspell gives approval for Mrs. Wright’s…

from my goals, I feel I am very qualified for this position because I am good with time management. Inspiration comes from within your soul, but what if you don’t know how to pull it out? If elected, I will be an anchor to my peers and hold them down. I feel that to be on SGA you have to have social skills and not be afraid to comfort someone who needs your help. You have to be human, down to earth, and actually connect to your classmate’s one on one. I will work continuously to make their…

Alexius Sparkman Dr. Ernest Williamson III English 200 19 February 2018 Trifles Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, was written in 1916, and is vaguely in perspective of honest to goodness events. As a young journalist, Glaspell claimed a murder case in a private group in Iowa. Eventually, she made a short play energized by her experiences and observations. The sheriff, his better half, the locale legal counselor, and the neighbors, Mr. likewise, Mrs. Vigorous, enter the kitchen of the Wright…

The main conflict in the play and within Macbeth himself is the abuse of his own power.…

out to get you? In one of William Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, Hamlet, acts of violence seem to follow each and every character in the play. In the beginning, Hamlet was thrown into a whirlwind of change and endless emotions. With his father just being murdered by his uncle Claudius and Polonius banning the relationship between him and Ophelia, the only thought running through Hamlet’s mind was anger and revenge. The acts of violence throughout the play comes in three different forms;…

Performed play. The Importance of Being Earnest , written by Oscar Wilde in 1895, is a romantic comedy play written about the happenstance, coincidence, and revelation that occurs one London season between two friends, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, and their paramours Gwendolyn Bracknell and Cecily Cardew respectively. Minor characters include Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen’s mother and aunt to Algernon; Lane, Algernon’s butler; Miss Prism, Cecily’s governess; Merriman, Cecily’s butler; and…

Just as an artist plays with darkness and light of colors to paint a beautiful picture, Shakespeare uses the darkness and light of phrases and words to control the tone of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (MSND). More importantly Shakespeare’s use of imagery related to the moon symbolizes tone changes throughout MSND. It plays such a key role that the workers include the moon, or Moonlight more specifically, as a character in their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe. When the Moonshine says, “All that I…

or obvious realities cause reactions in the play. One of the things we can talk about is deceptive acts. We see that a lot in characters decisions which makes them kaleidoscopical. Also we have mysterious characters. If we want to understand these characters, we must figure out the mystery that they left behind them. The other thing is sentences in the play. Especially, words of witches are most effective. Of course, there are other important lines that belong to other characters in the…

Death is the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person. In the play of Hamlet, written by Shakespeare, the idea of death is very prevalent. Shakespeare is quite clearly trying to make a point or send a message to the audience or readers about the theme of death. This theme is particularly clear in the fifth and final act of the play Hamlet. In the fifth act alone, Hamlet, Claudius, and Gertrude all with be killed and thus Shakespeare shows the theme of death by…

but presents many differences throughout the many acts as well. At the beginning of Act I, there are Capulet and Montague servants walking the street that meet along the way and start a fight. In the play, the fight starts with a Capulet drawing…