Susan Sontag

In Willa Cather’s novel entitled My Antonia, she writes about several female characters that, in essence, challenge the stereotypical women’s role in a male-dominated society during the early 1900s. In Trifles, a play written by Susan Glaspell, she depicts her female characters as crafty and bright and not simply inferior intellectually to their male counterparts. Upon closer examination of these two pieces of work, Cather and Glaspell demonstrate that these female characters defy the existing…

are going through in their household, but we just ignore it because it is their business. There are not many of stories about what men go through in their marriage; however, there are many of popular stories of what women go through. "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell and "A Doll House" by Henrik Ibsen were plays that helped shed light on what women go through in marriage. Women face certain elements in their marriage such as controlling husband, the social bondage, and the choices they have to make…

“Trifles” Reading Response Essay In Susan Glaspell’s play, “Trifles”, there are many social concepts that the author asks her audience to understand and consider. Elements that were considered while reading and analyzing the play were symbolism, the men’s social and psychological detachment towards womanhood, the deficiency of equality towards women and also the lack of proper and necessary communication between the characters in the play. All of these concepts connect to human experience…

relationships. Then men were searching around the farmhouse for clues or evidence but the woman were the one who was founding the evidence in the wife cooking but the men was paying no attention and ignored the woman and they were blind of the truth. Susan Glaspell is a reporter that’s works for Des Moines News. She covered a murder cased of this farmer’s wife. Her name was Margaret Hossack, she was accused of killing her husband who name was john. He died in his sleep while she hit him twice in…

usually made to be unhappy as well. The feeling of being miserable could drive a woman to search for her happiness in something else; she sometimes could find happiness in things such as pets, for example Minnie’s bird in Trifles. In the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell, the focus of the plot is the wife, Minnie Wright, who is facing a murder charge of her husband, John Wright. This one-act play also follows other characters who are trying to figure out what…

Sarah Booth Delaney is a southern belle and fallen daddy's girl who has no job or husband and north of thirty, and at the start of the series, finds herself about to lose the family's plantation located in the fictional town of Zinnia, Mississippi. On the plantation is the ghost of her great-great grandmother's nanny, Jitty, she is the one who gave Sarah the idea to kidnap the dog of her friend. Becoming a private investigator is what winds up saving the family plantation. "Them Bones" by…

and are astounded to see the Stone Table broken. Aslan has disappeared. Suddenly Susan and Lucy hear Aslan's voice from behind them. Aslan has risen from the dead. He says the innocent beings can not be killed on that table. Aslan carries the girls to the Witch's castle, where they free all the prisoners who have been turned to stone. He has the power to blow on the stone to melt it into the original being. Aslan, Susan, and Lucy join the battle between Peter's army and the Witch's troops. Peter…

“Trifles”, a 1916 play written by Susan Glaspell, centralizes around the death of Mrs. Wright’s husband, John. Her neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Hale, as well as the local sheriff and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, start off the play by entering the Wright’s empty farmhouse to investigate the murder. While the men look for evidence, the women begin to search for seemly insignificant clues that end up revealing the motive behind Mr. Wright’s crime. Overall, Glaspell’s use of subtle commentary on…

century, women were commonly mistreated. Among these women were farm woman. With the feeling of being trapped, the women were often stuck in unhappy marriages. In the play Trifles, Susan Glaspell uses symbolism to prove the mistreatment and emotional abuse that Minnie goes through, which will lead Minnie to kill her husband. Susan Glaspell uses the symbolism of the canary to represent Minnie. This is because, like the bird Minnie is kept in a cage. Instead of an actual cage, Minnie's barrier is…

Characterize John Wright- What Sort of Person was He and How Do You know? In Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles”, George Henderson: the County Attorney, Sheriff Peters, Mrs. Peters, Lewis Hale, and Mrs. Hale travel to the home of John Wright in search of evidence. John Wright is dead. He was strangled to death with a rope in his own bed while he slept. John’s wife: Mrs. Wright, is the only person who was known to be present at the scene of the crime at the time of the murder. However, Mrs. Wright…