Trifles by Susan Glaspell Essay

Brute strength; a physical and emotional characteristic needed to commit the murders of Henry Clerval and William Frankenstein. A being capable of such strength must have been large in stature, which The Creature was. Therefore, The Creature must be guilty and rightfully punished. The Creature, being great in size, was capable of wrapping his hands around the two victim’s necks, leaving behind black marks. Because of this evidence and The Creature’s characteristics, it can be concluded that The…

Christopher Barrella Comp II 4/6/16 Essay 2-Final Draft Trifles is a play about the aftermath and murder mystery of John Wright. An investigation is started to discover the perpetrator of the crime. Mr. Hale originally went to the Wright house to ask Mr. Wright if they could share the cost of a phone, only to discover that he had been hanged. After upsetting the women in the room by stating “Not much of a housekeeper, would you say, ladies?” (Glaspell 1156), the county attorney takes the men…

the high ranking jobs were taken by males. In Susan Glaspell’s story, Trifles, things are shaken up a bit. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters discover evidence that could put or keep Minnie Foster out of jail. A bird with its neck snapped, hidden away. The death of it was very similar to how John Wright was killed, with a rope around his neck in bed. Their husbands search through out the Wright household to figure out more about the death of Mr. Wright. The trifle, an object with very little value, held…

Best and Worst In the novel, “The Lovely Bones”, there are many events that occurred. My favorite part of the novel was when Jack Salmon, the main character’s father, began to suspect his daughter’s murderer and sought to find evidence to put him behind jail. Even when everyone else had lost hope in finding the suspect, Jack did not. He pestered the police again and again in hopes of catching the person who killed his daughter. It was interesting for me since Susie’s mother didn’t show as much…

When someone is different from others, people alienate them. In both The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie and Welcome to Night Vale by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, the characters feel disconnected from others. In Night Vale, Diane Crayton is raising her teenaged son Josh after breaking up with her boyfriend, Troy, who is also Josh’s father. Josh sets out to find his father, whom he has never known. When Diane hears him asking around town about someone, she assumes he has a crush. However, he is…

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…