Trifles

happiness. Through the past, the present, or the future, people always need a happy life. In this society, nowadays, there are still a lot of women who are victims of domestic violence. Coming back to the 1900s, however, Mrs. Wright in the drama “Trifle” written by Susan Keating Glaspell in 1916, has no more joy in her life after she married. Mrs. Wright in particular and a lot of women in general were victims of an unjust society. At that time, women had no right to vote. In Glaspell’s drama,…

The play “Trifles” was written by playwright and actress, Susan Glaspell, and was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916. The setting of the play is in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Wright and opens with three men and two women entering it. There is uncompleted housework everywhere and it is obvious that someone left in a hurry or was taken unexpectedly. Among the three men are one of Mr. Wright’s neighbors, Mr. Hale, the…

“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…

Trifles is a feminist play written by Susan Glaspell, an American Pulitzer Prize-winning play writer. Glaspell was also an actress, novelist, and a journalist. Trifles were based on a non-fictional murder case backed in the 1900s’, which she wrote a fictional play of murder investigation of John Wright, in which the wife, Minnie Wright, was the main suspect. The play started off with the setting, the couple’s kitchen, which was a mess, along with the main characters entering that said kitchen…

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 all the…

The name of play is significant to the theme of the story. The meaning of the word trifle is something that is trivial or inessential. So, the question is what is the relationship between the play's title and the attitude the men have regarding women and their "space" (kitchen) and their household duties? Well, in the story there was a murder committed by the wife of the of the man who died Mr. &Mrs. Wright. When the neighbor comes by and discovers that Mr. Wright had been murdered he sent for…

Aristotle’s theory of poetics is a very important element that dramas can incorporate. It allows plays to have depth and similarities to historical literature. One drama that has these qualities is the play “Trifles”. “Trifles” includes a complex plot, a constant protagonist, thought, diction, and spectacle which therefore, allows it to fall under Aristotle’s theory of poetics. By incorporating elements of this theory, including both Mythos and ethos, the play forms an experience of catharsis…

Trifles: Though They Be But Little, They Are Fierce Nebraska during the early 1900s was a little dull. Although the country folks sometimes had fancy things like a party phone for example, life was usually calm and quiet. Gender roles were defined in this time too. On a farm, men typically took care of the crops and any livestock while the women ruled over domestic chores. The women took care of the kitchen, bedroom, and other rooms. Life was difficult and tiring for many, regardless of their…

“Women are used to worrying over trifles” (Gaspell 1158). says Mr. Hale in Susan Glaspell’s 1916 play Trifles. By making this statement, he illustrations the frame of mind that spurs Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters into action, representing the feminism in the play’s time. As the play intertwined into Glaspell’s mind, America was challenging its opinions on women. Women were challenging woman’s suffrage as well as control over their own bodies through birth control (Womans Suffrage Movement…).…

The Consequences of Uncontrolled Emotions The plays Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller all illustrate how the lack of control of emotions not only cause the of ruining relationships, but can also cause self-harm or death and can cause the destruction of personal reputation. When reading these plays, the reader sees how detrimental negative emotions can be when it comes to the well-being of themselves and others that are in their…