Susan Glaspell

Irony of Irony The Lottery, All Summer in a Day, and A Jury of Her Peers all include irony. Irony is something happening in the opposite way of a prediction, has an amusing result, or is only clear to one view. Dramatic irony, directed to movies or plays, is shown in A Jury of Her Peers. For example only the women that knew the evidence was found because they hid the it from the other characters in the story. Situational irony, an unexpected outcome, displays in All Summer in a Day and The…

Achieving Author’s Purpose: A Successful Creation Myth Have you ever wondered how Earth came to be? Everyone has heard of different creation stories whether they were fictional or reasonable stories. “The World on the Turtle’s Back” is a an Iroquois creation story that displays the Earth beginning, and the balance of “good” and “evil.” “Creation stories often serve many purposes. According to Larry Evers and Paul Pavich, scholars of Native American literature, such stories’ remind people of…

he movie the group decided on is called Dead Silence, and the chosen clip is when the main character of the film, Jamie, was at a funeral burying his dead wife, Lisa. His wife was killed by a possessed ventriloquist doll named Billy. The main cast of the movie are in attendance, Jamie being desperate for answers stumbles across the Billy’s owner’s grave, Mary Shaw. In the funeral scene we see a good example of Chiaroscuro Lighting in Zettl’s book. All the people are wearing dark clothes and you…

Ever wonder when there is someone in need of help and want to help he/she/them out, such as a stranger, but were too scared, nervous, or even had to wait until someone else gets involved in order to help? In this chapter, “In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing” by Lauren Slater, from the book Opening Skinner’s Box, takes us to a bizarre psychological behavior that involves the help of others or groups. In this area, we get to see how people react when a stranger is in a need of help during a…

One of the most important character in the play was Mrs. Wright who suspected of killing her husband, Mr. Wright. Mrs. Wright sent to prison for the crime. They opened an investigation about the crime to find out who really killed Mr. Wright. Several people led the investigation including Mr. Hale and his wife, the sheriff and his wife, and the County Attorney who was curious one among all to find out what happened. While Mrs. Wright was in prison, they were investigated at her house to find out…

True Grit (2010), written by Ethan and Joel Cohen, is a movie about a girl who is very upset because her father was murdered, so she sets out on a journey with a U.S. Marshal and Texas Ranger to find her father’s killer so that she could have her revenge by killing him. She ends up getting into some tough situations that the U.S. Marshal and Texas Ranger have to help her with. Through all of this the actor who plays the young girl has very good dialogue, costume, and cinematography. Maddie…

Cortney Laughlin Intro to Literature 3/6/15 Trifles Essay #3 The setting is important in Trifles because the issues taking place at the time the play was written are similar to the issues in the play. At this time, women didn’t even have the right to vote. Society was very male-dominated, and females were assigned to taking care of others and the home. The women’s domain was mainly in the kitchen. In the play the men dismiss work done in the kitchen because it’s the women’s domain. The sheriff…

horrifying truth that they wish to never had known in the first place. With dialogue involving how “somebody wrung its neck” (578) and leaving it with a suspenseful note where the woman hide the evidence that they found. In this comparison and contrast, of Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” and the story “A Jury of her Peers” elaborating, on the changes made to the story focusing on the characters, the structure, and theme between the two. To start with, is the variety in the characters in…

life or that had made her happy. This kind of torture can really drive someone over the edge. All of this really took a toll on her mental health. One of the women mention, “She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster” (Glaspell). This shows that at one point Mrs. Wright she was happy and had no intention of being a murderer when she was Minnie Foster. It also shows that once her husband came in her life things started to change things for the worst.…

Trifles is a play about a woman name Minnie Wright who killed her husband, John Wright. In the play, the sheriff Henry Peters and the county attorney George Henderson, along with the witness Lewis Hale, are investigating John’s Wrights farmhouse. While their wives, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hales, are gathering up things to take to Mrs. Wright, who is in custody. While the men are investigating, the women find an empty bird cage, then found the dead bird in Mrs. Wright’s sewing kit. The bird was…