Minnie's husband has been murdered, he was found strangled with a rope around his neck. The first three characters who enter the room are the three men involved in the investigation of the murder at hand. The purpose of their visit is to find evidence of motivation of murder, the women, however, are concerned with the appearance of the house, especially the kitchen. The men presume the women to be harmless for a couple of reasons one being. The women are left in the kitchen where, according to the Sheriff, there are “nothing but kitchen things”(Glaspell 1070).
“The Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, takes place in an abandoned farmhouse owned by John Wright. The First scene is in a “gloomy” messy kitchen where the first characters, County attorney, and the sheriff arrive with the witnesses the neighbors, Mrs. Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Hale and Hale. The sheriff is doing an investigation of John Wright’s murder and Hale recounts how he discovered Mrs. Wright acting bizarrely, as she told him how her husband died. The County attorney and the sheriff found it weird how Mr. Wright was straggled by a rope when there’s a gun in the house. The two complain of how the women are worrying about the trifles instead of the murder.
It is during the girls’ searching of the Wright household and their discussions about the Wright family do they discover a possible motive. Mr. Wright was an alright guy for the most part but apparently was very stern, and at times unforgivingly mean to Mrs. Wright. They never had children or company so while Mr. Wright was away Mrs. Wright would be alone and have nothing to do. She had hardly any friends and, to remind her of her choir days, she purchases a small bird to sing throughout the house. Mrs. Hale & Mrs. Peters stumble across an empty birdcage and a dead bird wrapped in silk in a
At the beginning of the scene in the short story, we read about Nat having forgotten about something important. He then realises that the fire in the fireplace “was smouldering out”. This incident leads the birds down through the chimney into Nat’s house. DuMaurier uses olfactory imagery when Nat’s wife wakes up and tells Nat that she smells dead birds. As the passage goes on, we read about the singed feathers left behind by the birds, which adds more horror to the passage.
He killed the three children’s cat because Octavia thought the cat was eating the chickens. The narrator explains that Octavia was mistaken the entire time: To increase his discomfiture the march of events tended to shift the blame of ravaged chicken-coops from the supposed culprit who had already paid full forfeit; the young chicks
I believe John had a genuine concern and love toward his wife but not wise in his treatments of her mental health. He missed the mark in his Isolation treatments toward his wife mental condition. As the Author cites “John does not know how much I really suffer, he knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him”. Moreover, John tried very hard to make his wife comfortable at the house even having his sister help, although she didn’t like it. “There comes John's sister.
Macbeth can then see mirrors reflecting from person to person and sees Banquo sitting on a throne, then he sees Banquo’s murder, with an axe stuck in his back, and smiling and waving at him, then he smashes the mirror and falls to the ground. He lies on his back with no one and nothing around him, absolutely no sign of the witches. In the play, Macbeth doesn’t arrive until the witches have finished preparing the cauldron. The witches are not naked and there are only three of them with Hecate (Hecate is the leader of the three witches; she directs supernatural happenings and appearances including the mystical apparitions). The apparitions are completely different, the first apparition is an armed head not an armed body.
Compare and Contrast ‘The Speckled Band’ And ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ In ‘The Speckled Band’ Helen Stoner goes to talk to Sherlock Holmes after her sister’s death. Later, Holmes visits Helen and her step-father’s house, Sherlock soon discovers that it was a snake that killed Julia, Helen’s twin sister. However, in ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ Mary Maloney’s husband arrives home from work and after a few whiskeys tells Mary some important news for which she hits him over the head with a leg of lamb murdering him. The atmosphere in ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ is like a typical family home. I think this is because the phrase ‘The room was warm and clean‘ suggests that Mary tries to be a typical, housewife who tries to keep her husband happy.
Their attitudes cause the women to pair up together. Not only do Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters bond, but they choose to hide evidence as an act of compassion for Mrs. Wright. Acquiring the container with the dead bird was an act of loyalty to their gender. The play ends with the characters leaving the kitchen and the women announcing that they have determined Mrs. Wright’s quilt making style. She “knots it” instead of “quilts it” – a play with words that indicate the way she killed her husband (148).
Introduction to Writing Dialogue The Great Mouse Plot By Roald Dahl Directions: Read the story below. After you’re finished reading, rewrite sentences 1 – 10 exactly as shown on a separate piece of binder paper. Be sure to include all indenting, capital letters and punctuation. My four friends and I had come across a loose floor-board at the back of the classroom, and when we pried it up with the blade of a pocket-knife, we discovered a big hollow space underneath. This, we decided, would be our secret hiding place for sweets and other small treasures such as conkers and birds' eggs.