While both women endured their brutal murders, they screamed out hoping to stop the killing and receive help from others. In “The Lottery”, Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right” (Jackson 318), and in “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police”, Catherine Genovese screamed, “Oh my God, he stabbed me! Please help me! Please help me!” and “I’m dying” (Gansberg 121). In Shirley Jackson’s story, the town people are solely responsible for killing Mrs. Hutchinson by voluntarily picking up stones and stoning her to death.
A Jury of Her Peers (1927), a short story written by Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers tells the tale of a murder mystery of a farmer named John Wright who is killed in his sleep while his wife Minnie Wright the prime suspect is sound asleep lying next to him. Mr. Peters, the county sheriff and attorney become suspicious during the investigation to know that the Mrs. Wright does not have any answers to who killed her husband. The sheriff’s wife Mrs. Peters is there along with friends of the Wright’s, Mr. and Mrs. Hale who are there giving a statement during the investigation. The two women are also suspicious that Minnie committed the murder but are reluctant to present evidence that could insinuate Minnie’s guilt.
However, the women, more penetrating in their vision, they piece together the sort of married life Mrs. Wright had lived. Following up on a series of clues, the women manage to reconstruct Minnie Wright’s motive. In silent collusion, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters choose not to disclose the clues that reveal the motive, thereby constituting themselves as a jury and tacitly acquitting Minnie of any wrongdoing. “No Name Woman” is an autobiography written by Maxine Hong Kingston relates how on the night when her aunt gave birth to an illegitimate child. The people of the Chinese village in which the aunt and her family lived ransacked the family's house, killed all of their
“Trifles” is a one act play that tells the tale of a group of women and men who seek clues in a tragic case of a confined woman suspected of murdering her husband. In “Trifles”, Susan Glaspell explores law and justice through a feminist and modernist perspective, as well as creates a dichotomy of perception.
She also used to be a teacher. Vera was a nice person. In the story when Emily Brent tells Vera about how she turned away Beatrice Taylor from coming into her house because Beatrice had an “accident”, Vera was shocked that somebody could do such a thing. The role Vera plays in the story is the 10th little Indian who hangs themselves. She also helped kill the 9th little Indian because she assumed Philip Lombard was the murderer and shot him with his own relover.
Would Nell Larsen truly jeopardize her up-and-coming career to plagiarize a story that shared the same readers or did she just unconsciously mimic the plotline? When Larsen was accused of plagiarizing she was given the opportunity to defend herself in a letter to the readers of the magazine. She wrote that working in a hospital as a nurse an elderly African American woman told her the story of a man seeking refuge in a woman’s house. He tells her that he has murdered a man and seeks shelter. When the woman learns it is her son he murdered she still hides the murderer because of their shared race.
“Trifles,” written by Susan Glaspell, is a murder mystery that explores gender relationships, differences between the sexes, and the nature of truth. In the play, the farmer and his wife never actually appear; instead, the story focuses on the prosecutor, George Henderson, who has been called in to investigate the murder; Henry Peters, the local sheriff; Lewis Hale, a neighboring farmer who discovered Mrs. Wright’s body; and Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, wives of the two local men. The story “Trifles,” is a murder mystery that explores gender relationships in some very subtle ways. The drama takes place at the house where Mr. Wright’s body was discovered to be dead. Immediately the men are paired up on one side as the women are paired up on the other.
The card identified a woman who killed her two sons and then cut her own throat in efforts to put the blame on another individual. Her bloody fingerprints were found on a door post, which identified her as the murderer. Since then the use of the fingerprints has come a long way. The fingerprint is now used to help solve crimes and help identify individuals. Fingerprints evidence has helped free innocent people from being falsely accused of a crime.
In the play, the two women – Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale- who are only brought along with the sheriff and attorney to retrieve some items for a wife – Mrs. Wright/ Minnie foster- accused for killing her husband –Mr. Wright, are the ones who actually find the evidence to indict the accused. In trifles, the title is ironic as the reader sees what is silly and "trifle" to men, is the key for solving the murder. In a general look at Trifles, a reader can figure right away the roles given to women in that era. Women's roles were mainly reproductive and briefly social.
As stated by director Patty Jenkins in the Monster Featurette, "When you see women like Aileen Wuornos on TV and 95% of the world sees them a certain way, I was sure that the fact that she broke my heart was personal and that no one else would ever see it" (Monster). The 2003 Academy Award winner Monster, based on the true-life story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, explores the brutal reality of highway prostitutes and the chilling consequences that can result from such a destitute situation. The director, Patty Jenkins, stated that her goal with this movie was to portray the "crossing from one side, from good to evil … [and a] last attempt to get love" (Monster). This movie explores many facets of sociology, both in the analysis of Aileen's world, as well as in reflection on how society views and addresses its discarded members such as Aileen. In watching this film, the viewer is forced to practice cultural relativism and assess what part socialization has played in the development of his or her own values and beliefs.