Trifles by Susan Glaspell Essay

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 thousands of…

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…

My Substitute Capabilities Two women solve a 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…

“Lamb to the Slaughter”, a short story written by the celebrated author Roald Dahl, is a story that follows Mary Maloney, a pregnant housewife who had recently found out her husband, a chief detective, was going to leave her. Out of desperation, Mary murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb and then concealing her wrongdoing and discarding the murder weapon by encouraging the policemen who were investigating the murder to eat it. The most salient idea the author explores is the betrayal;…

In 1893, a woman named Sarah Collins was brutally murdered by her husband, Patrick Collins, in the cloakroom of the kindergarten at which she was a janitress. In his novel, McTeague, Frank Norris eerily echoed this case, which was claimed to be evidence of social Darwinism. The novel, named after the protagonist, is centered on a man named McTeague, a hulking and dim-witted dentist, and the events that befall him and those around him. Though the novel initially met much resistance and little…

In this module, we have studied Susan Glaspell’s one-act play “Trifles” (1916), Zora Nealle Hurston’s short story “Sweat” (1926), and Louise Erdrich’s short story “The Shawl” (2001). All of the literary works mentioned above all hold some examples of domestic abuse women had to endure during the 20th century. Glaspell’s “Trifles” portrays a clear message about the ways of the two main characters marriage, without them ever appearing on stage. Instead, she leave the audience to interpret the…

“Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one.” This song is the song made for Lizzie Borden for a pretty special reason. Lizzie Borden was a wealthy Woman who was accused of murdering her father, Andrew Borden, and her stepmother, Abby Borden, with an axe or hatchet on August 4, 1892. At the end of her trial for the murders, she was found innocent, but some say she was still guilty. Many people thought Lizzie Borden was…

The 1920’s were not the time to piss off a beautiful, wealthy, white female in Chicago (unless you had a death wish). As seen in The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry, the press encouraged women to murder by glorifying crimes to fabricate sales. Perry’s book focuses on the achievements of an inexperienced news reporter, who faces sexism in her field of work. What seems like an enticing story about murder turns into a monotonous history textbook. During Maurine Watkins’ fight to reveal the…

125 W.Ninth St. Anna Thorwald recorded death by Lars Thorwald under 1st person account of L.B Jeffery. Self Reported “A neighbourhood murder ...Trips at night in the rain, in possession of saws, knives, trunks with rope, and a wife that isn’t there anymore”. Under external circumstances, L.B Jeffery and Lisa Carol Freemont contributed greatly in this small investigation led by Thomas Doyle assisting in the observation of Lars Thorwald. The following gives an explanation of the general case of…

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