Can women do a man’s job? Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are two major characters in Glaspell’s Trifles. We enter a story where the women are following the men into the kitchen of the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright. Hale’s wife speaks about Minnie’s (John’s wife) alienation from her nearest neighbors because of John’s stingy and unfriendly ways. She is being accused of being his murderer and Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters make observations of things that Minnie has left undone or unfinished around
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ENGL 2304 Dr. Soto 8 October 2007 Feminism in Trifles In Susan Glaspell’s Trifles, a short play about rural life in the early twentieth century, a strong standpoint on feminism is presented to the audience. Throughout the play, much of the plot revolves around contrasting the men in power’s perception of a crime scene with the more subjective, emotional women’s point of view. In the conclusion of the poem, the women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, decline turning in some potential evidence that
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Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” provokes a contemplation on the differences between men and women through the examination of a murder scene. The story begins with an interview of the people who first found the body of Mr. Wright, and the social rift between men and women becomes more evident as the men scrutinize the state of the kitchen. The men then leave to examine the rest of the property as the women busy themselves with gathering the requested items of Minnie Wright. While doing so
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27 August 2015 Every person has a reason to do the things they do. Even though it’s illegal or inappropriate. Sometimes people do the things they do to save someone’s life or to protect them. In the play Susan Glaspell’s Trifles two woman find lots of evidence that are considered as trifles and didn’t tell the CA or the sheriff about any of it to cover up for Mrs. Wright. It was right for the women to do the things they did to protect Mrs. Wright. Based on the time period, the women, Mrs. Hale
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to the Sheriff John Wright * The murdered man and owner of the house Mrs. Minnie Wright (f/k/a Minnie Foster) * John Wright's wife and his suspected murderer ************************************ Summary Feminist Drama Trifles is an example of early feminist drama. Though its plot focuses on a single moral choice, that of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters deciding whether or not to expose why Mrs. Wright killed her husband. It addresses the principal issue of justice and
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The Annie Proulx short story, "55 Miles to the Gas Pump" portrays the troubled mind of Rancher Croom, which his wife unveils after making a gruesome discovery. Rancher Croom, described as a unique, seemingly strange man commits suicide off a canyon cliff as result of a drunken night. Quickly changing to the point of view of Mrs. Croom, although banned from entering, she uncovers her husbands hidden and extremely revolting treasure of murdered women, those of who she recognized from the news paper
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An example of something that shows us a lot of examples of 3rd wave feminism and is often compared to Glaspell’s Trifles is the film Legally Blonde (2001). The film is about a woman named Elle Woods who’s only goal in life is to marry her boyfriend Warner. But then he breaks up with her just when she thinks he is going to propose because he will look bad marrying a blonde. So then she sets out to win him back by becoming a lawyer and going to Harvard Law School. Nobody thought she could do it because
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Doris Kearns Goodwin is an American historian, political commentator, and biographer. Among Team of Rivals, she has also written about several other US Presidents. Some of these presidents include John F Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson to name a few. This New Yorker who now lives in Concord, attended Colby College in Maine, to later earn a PhD from Harvard University. A woman of many firsts, she earned the Lincoln Prize for her book Team of Rivals, she has even met Maine’s own Stephen King, and was
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Author Jayne Thompson led a keynote lecture in the Alumni Auditorium of Widener University. The keynote lecture focused on the life experiences and struggles of Jayne Thompson. The lecture began by Jayne Thompson speaking about her early childhood and some of the many challenges she faced while growing up. She discussed the poor economic conditions and the violence surrounding her hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina. She used illustrations to help the audience visual some of the events she witnessed
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The Susan Smith case caught national attention in the twentieth century as the entire nation followed a desperate mother’s loss for her abducted sons, to the unexpected reveal of the same mother as a merciless woman who drowned her own children. Years have past since the incident, and Smith remained incarcerated and in mourning for her irreversible actions and the forever loss of two innocent lives. In an attempt to understand Susan Smith’s abnormal dependence on other individuals and her deviant
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