“Jury of Her Peers” Analysis In a "Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell the main problem is that the women Martha Hale and Mrs. Peters understand what the men are blind to. Martha Hale and Mrs. Peters began to see what kind of life Mrs. Wright was living with Mr. Wright. The two women start to fit the pieces together, and they end up solving the murder. The men are just looking for motive, they believe that there is an obvious motive, and they over look the small things. The small things end up telling the whole story.
William Shakespeare is a renounced poet and playwright; he is most famous for his creative linguistic devices and his ability to incorporate many significant and relevant themes into his writing. Romeo and Juliet, being one of Shakespeare’s most credited plays, utilizes the themes of love, hatred, conflict and anger. Shakespeare successfully portrays all these themes through strong emotions. Similarly Robert Browning conveys strong feeling such as hatred, betrayal and love which becomes overt. Browning’s poem ‘The Laboratory’ is about a scorned woman’s desired to kill her lover’s mistress, and any other woman he may have had an affair with.
Nonetheless, the sheriff’s wife and the neighbor’s wife who come to the house to take in some stuffs for Mrs. Wright have found out the motive and the real murderer. The play "As the Crow Flies" by David Henry Hwang is like a tragedy within a comedy. The playwright uses humor throughout the play to hide the serious theme of the story. Chan, P.K., and Hannah are the people who have been left alone from the world. The author describes the differences in their thinking which is caused by the difference in cultures.
Eli Pearlmuter Written Engl/Lit Studies I (ENGL-111-DLB 3) Instructor: Dr. H. EL Khalfi 02/15/2009 Essay 1-Topic: 2. Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” is about the struggle between men and women. Argue for or against this statement. The “Trifles” play is definitely about the struggle between men and women. The struggle is being penetrably described in the play in a woman point of view.
When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me! She is a cold sniveling woman, and you bend to her!”(Page 15, act one) she is basically showing her jealousy towards his wife. This stirred up the witch trials because Abigail wanted to be with Proctor and she would do just about anything. The fact that John proctor realizes all of his flaws and confesses to all of his sins is another reason why he can be considered a tragic hero. When Proctor had to go to the court to get his wife out of being accused of upholding witchcraft he eventually confess to his sins he committed.
The audience is challenged throughout the text, as the reader’s assertiveness and insight into Sallies character is provoked through literary techniques, such as simile, symbolism etc. The biography is also a mix of detective novel, so the reader discovers what happened to Sallie and what she stood up against. Her pain and suffering from abandonment is explored and described by Sallie Anne as well as her sister in the following insightful narration. “when pat (sallies mother) abandoned Sallie for the second time, that really fucked her up… when your mother makes a habit of walking out on you, it doesn’t do much for your self esteem” and Sally stated “if only I’d had my mother, things would Have been different”. These lines emphasize the dramatic impact the repeated abandonment had on Sallie, and the course her life took.
Dizzy Gillespie Dave Ackerman English 106 18 June 2009 Susan Glaspell’s Play “Trifles” is Justifiable In the short play “Trifles,” Susan Glaspell makes it easy to distinguish the view points between the men and woman. The play is about a woman named Mrs. Wright who is accused of the murder of her husband. Mrs. Wright is a farmer's wife who is also cut off from the outside world. There are three men that are involved with the case and two women, but aren’t there to really help solve the murder. There is an investigation that takes place in the home of the murder.
The specific idea for “Trifles” came from a murder trial Glaspell was assigned to cover as a newspaper reporter. (Evans) The main character of the play, although not present, is Minnie Wright, the wife accused of murdering her husband with a rope. It takes place in the kitchen of the Wright’s home during the investigation. The initial setting is described as “gloomy” (Glaspell, 2010, p. 143), which can possibly represent the Wright’s marriage. The plot turns to discover a motive for the murder and Mrs. Wright is in jail as the prime suspect.
Plot Development in Trifles Susan Glaspell’s Trifles can be described as a short play about the small things that women notice. In Trifles, two women discuss how one of their friends could have possibly murdered her husband. While they talk about it, they begin to find clues as to why she either killed him or was really upset about something her husband did that made her kill him. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, the wives of the sheriff and Mr. Hale, a prominent man of the town, discover three slight clues to the murder of Mr. Wright: a quilt piece, a bird cage, and a dead canary. The discovery of the quilt pieces shows us that something was wrong with Mrs. Wright.
Comparing and Contrasting “The Story of the Hour” to “The Tell Tale Heart” How would you feel if you are trapped somewhere? In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard is a wife who is trapped in an unfulfilling marriage and even diagnosed with a weak heart. She is the type of woman who wants to feel liberated in her own life. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is a madman and murderer who fails to conceal his fear after he kills an old man. Although they both have many similarities, surprisingly there are many differences between these two stories.