The Farmer's Wife

A farmer’s wife held for the murder of her husband. Who could be capable of understanding why she would do something like this? The story of this murder is told in the short story A Jury of Her Peers and in the play Trifles, both by Susan Glaspell. In both pieces of work, the investigation of this crime is taken place, but in slightly different points of view. Both of these stories show the opposite positions men and women have in society, but the short story shows more the feelings of how one…

murder with their instincts in a suspenseful story written by Susan Glaspell called “A Jury of Her Peers”. The characters in “A Jury of Her Peers”, precisely the women, each used an alternative literacy to understand what events went on the day a farmer’s wife committed a crime. Alternative literacy is one’s ability to interpret actions of living things or events through counts of practice and knowledge of the matter. Reading animals and people are the alternative literacies I acquired through…

“While the standard polarization of human being in a crime story is normally dividing by the law abiding citizens from the criminal, the characters here are soon divided on the basis of sex differences.” (Alkalay) In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” Glaspell uses a murder investigation of a woman’s husband to demonstrate the different roles of men and women in the early 1900’s. Glaspell shows the reader, through small significant objects that the men think are inessential to illustrate the greater…

In history, the responsibility of children in wealthy families has been to marry the right person to maintain the social and political status of the family. For the females particularly, the pressure to marry younger and have children was greater. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the main female protagonist is pressured by her father to marry Paris, a man of his choosing. In Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka, the young Ailin’s marriage is arranged when she is only five…

for the love that she has always desired. Janie leaves Logan for Joe who is a man with goals and charm. Janie feels for the first time in her life that she might experience real love with this him. He treats her like a lady, rather than just a farmer's wife. After being married for a short period of time, Janie realizes that she again is lacking the love that she has longed and hoped for. The love that Janie has with Joe is possessive. Joe sees Janie as his possession. He wants Janie to obey…

a desolate rock on the seashore. He was naked. His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him." (26.) Edna is showing her desire for freedom, for escaping her roles as a mother and a wife, and her desire to escape from her husband, Leonce, who keeps her in a social cage. After these two incidents the birds are absent in a point of symbolism until Edna starts to express her desire for…

important male characters in the play, Mr. Henderson who is the county attorney and Mr. Peters who is the sheriff, therefore the language use by them most be at the level of such titles. Mrs. Hale, a neighboring farmer, and Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife are key characters that portray the social crisis of women at the time. Although these two women belong to different economic classes, both decided to conceal crime evidence in order to defend their gender. This action describes the desperation…

Nora in the beginning of the play fulfils the society 's view for women as she is a devoted wife and mother. Her role in life is restricted meeting the needs of her children and husband, keeping a nice home, and pleasing her husband. Although Ibsen doesn’t verbatimly write that there is anything wrong with that lifestyle it is clear that there…

the power to make contracts and buy and sell property Unmarried women were also able to write wills, serve as guardians, be executors of estates as well as sue and be sued in a court of law. The law stated that in a marriage the husband and the wife were one entity. When the woman got married, she lost her legal identity. The property that she had or owned came under the protection and influence of her husband. This includes her livestock, crops money, leases, farm and household goods…

By being connected to her husband as his body shows how the wife is equal to her husband, for “the term body…is a title of honor rather than of debasement” (15). By making the woman part of the husband’s body it gives her a place of respect and this ‘physical bond’ creates a unity between the two for how can man not love his body (woman) (15)? The wife becomes part of the man’s body, thus connecting the two in one body which, as announced in Genesis, “is…