Susan Cooper

society preaches equality and fairness in role distribution between both genders, with the aim of promoting co existence among them. In both plays, Trifles and Anna in The Tropics, the script writers presents how males have been dominant in both plays. Susan Glaspell, through her play outlines the truth about the current situation in the society where women were inglorious and judgmental taken to be insane. For example, Glaspell conveys “Well women are used to worrying about Trifles”(118). The…

In her short story, Cacoethes Scribendi, Catherine Sedgwick uses the pen as a phallic symbol to represent their grip on men. Susan Glaspell, on the other hand, uses a bird and messy kitchen in Jury of Her Peers to symbolize Minnie and her domestic struggle. Both authors describe domestic duties as obstacles in women’s search for their identity or freedom and each text has a victim of these domestic duties. While the women of both text attempt to gain control over the men, for their identity in…

The name of play is significant to the theme of the story. The meaning of the word trifle is something that is trivial or inessential. So, the question is what is the relationship between the play's title and the attitude the men have regarding women and their "space" (kitchen) and their household duties? Well, in the story there was a murder committed by the wife of the of the man who died Mr. &Mrs. Wright. When the neighbor comes by and discovers that Mr. Wright had been murdered he sent for…

Ms. Thomas's class all go to the Philbrook museum. On a cold November day. The day starts out like any other day. We all enter the museum trying to stay together, but as this day would have it. That was not going to happen. As we find our way around looking at all kinds of things that Ms. Thomas likes. Kassie suggest that we go and look at the mummy's. Jake from State Farm agrees with her. So we all go and find the mummy section. Just before we go to enter Kassie ask Jake from State Farm if he…

In this fantasy story, Isle of the Lost by Melissa De La Cruz, there are 4 friends that have to satisfy their parents in different ways but they have one thing in common which is the Dragon’s Eye. That might sound weird but it is really powerful. The 4 friends are villains from all the fairytales. For example, Mal, daughter of Maleficent, Evie, daughter of Evil Queen , Jay, son of Jafar and last but not least Carlos, son of Cruella De Vil. All these are parents of villains of what you might have…

In the book the mysterious benedict society by Trenton lee Stewart the charters Rayne, sticky, Constance and Kate are all introduced at different times but the book starts off talking about Rayne while he is at the orphanage were he has been since his parents left him He is reading the paper well having his tea and reads an ad that reads: ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPROTUNITIES? He and three other gifted kids also read this ad (and also many others). They all go through different…

Character Analysis; Mrs. Wright In crimes, sometimes is more culpable the victim than the victimizer. In the play Trifles we find a variety of characters, even though it is a short play. All of them are interesting in their ways, but anyone like Mrs. Wright. She was the suspect of the murder of her husband, Mr. Wright. The character of Mrs. Wright have an intense contrast. She sways between being the suspect and being the real victim. What lead to the witness to consider her the suspect of the…

In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles written in 1916, reveal about a fascinating murder investigation to find out the real culprit behind it. The setting of Trifles is in a kitchen, the sphere, and everything surrounding shows the women’s lives. Mrs. Wright is suspected of strangling her husband to death. The reader can figure out from this play that the writer is being preoccupied with the culture, which is bound by the sex and gender roles. The title of the play Trifles means something of little…

popular in pop culture today and can be found in dozens of television shows. Oxygen network seems to be an entire network dedicated to shows that involve some, in not all of the themes presented in Susan Glaspell’s play. Women have not had an easy life throughout the history of the United States, and while Susan Glaspell was writing the play, (pre-1916) women were just starting to gain a voice. World War I was taking place, sending thousands of men to fight on the front lines, and leaving…

Trifles by Susanne Glaspell focuses on morality and justice. But if you dig a little deeper into the play it shows the roles of men and women in society during that time, along with the effects of loneliness and revenge. Minnie symbolized a caged bird that is forced to hide her beauty, not to sing, and is isolated from the community. Glaspell used the bird cage to signify that Minnie had very limited space to do as she pleased. Her husband took away her femininity; the pretty dresses she used to…