Susan Sontag

In society, there is always the desire to be “loyal to your sex” (Glaspell), to protect those that one relates to the most. In Susan Glaspell’s short story, A Jury of Her Peers, the characters personify that exact constant by protecting their peers, respectively, as a result of the historical gender segregation. To begin, the women in the short story are not friends, with the narrator of the story stating “She [Martha Hale] had met Mrs. Peters the year before at the county fair… she remembered……

Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a controversial play: controversial because, first time reader get a different idea about the play each time. Some come to the conclusion that this play is empowering for women because of its ending and how the women in the story choose and decided to keep information from the men. Other feel that this story goes in a total opposite direction, that the story shows a narrative where women are left feeling powerless and nothing but a victim of a patriarchal society.…

The early 1900’s were dramatically different from the current time period. World War I was held on a large scale at the time, but there was a more domestic issue at hand--the role of a woman. In her play Trifles, Susan Glaspell writes in relation to the current issue around her own everyday life. The role of a woman is told through a captivating story and a profound setting that is used to draw in her audience from the start. Glaspell focuses on the setting to reveal her story by applying…

Both unconscious and conscious psychological mechanisms influence an individual to a large extent. Psychological mechanisms such as splitting and dissociation affect an individual’s behavior, worldview, and role in their environment. In addition, psychological mechanisms may also impact how an individual responds to the events he or she encounters. Martha Stout, the author of “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” tells stories about how her patients were affected by trauma and explains…

Black Mirror is a British television series that examines a variety of issues that face contemporary society, usually involving the implications of new technologies. Created by Charlie Brooker, this celebrated fiction series illuminates the darker, often chaotic side of evolving media and human knowledge. Using an assortment of satirical themes and motifs, this show fascinates audiences by conveying a sense of anxiousness that is felt by the fluctuating nature of modern society and its…

The Assassination of Mr. Wright This thrilling play, “Trifles” formerly known as A Jury of Her Peers, Susan Glaspell uses this play as a feminist outlook in the 1920’s to make a statement to her peers. This play first takes place in the out of order kitchen of an abandoned farmhouse. Five people enter the house two women and three men; George Henderson the County Attorney, Henry Peters the Sheriff, Lewis Hale the neighboring farmer who found the body, Mrs. Peters the Sheriff’s wife, and…

Such a thing like the bread that has been left out of the box, an unfinished quilt, a half clean half messy table, and an empty birdcage. So, the men are looking for physical evidence but the women in Susan Glaspell's Trifles noticed clues that reveal a sad and lonely tale of Mrs. Wright’s life. They concluded that Mr. Wright’s cold, oppressive nature must have been too much for Mrs. Wright to take and to live with. The women commented about her being…

not get along well and bring out the poor side in each other in general. The thought that women would never stick up for each other or try to help each other, however, is disproved in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and Lynn Nottage’s POOF!, wherein both of them women strive to help someone of their gender in some way. Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles shows women defending each other when one is faced with charges on the murder of her husband and two more help to disprove her guilt, despite…

Yet, in many ways, the significance of symbols transcends beyond their connections to themes. People not only assign meaning to objects, they assign humanity into objects, permanently interjecting a personal part of themselves into the world. In Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles, she eloquently uses many different symbols to communicate the individual…

The novel “Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech and the short story “The Guest” by Uma Krishnaswami both have a similar theme. Both of these stories reveals the theme as don’t judge someone until you know them well enough. Although these two stories share the same theme, it teaches the lesson in different ways. In the novel “Walk Two Moons” the theme it has is don’t judge someone until you know them well; this theme is taught by using the character's words, thoughts, and feelings. In the novel,…