play Trifles? Analyze and support the theme by giving examples from the story
Susan Glaspell's play Trifles is intended to illustrate women's superior 'ways of knowing,' and the callousness of males towards women. It asserts the importance, even th Continue Reading...
Wright.
It is also quite clear the men do not think the women are intelligent enough to know a clue if they saw it. Glaspell writes, "But would the women know a clue if they did come upon it?' he said; and, having delivered himself of this, he foll Continue Reading...
These wounds impact Jake dramatically, as, Brett drags an entourage full of men with whom she has slept in front of him nearly every day, including her fiance, Mike, Jake's own friend, Robert Cohn, and a handsome young bullfighter that the group mee Continue Reading...
corpse strangled with the rope still around his neck, the first thing I wanted to do was to remove the rope. Because the look on the dead body's face was horrible, and obviously the rope was what was responsible for the death, and also for the horri Continue Reading...
This includes the kitchen and anything related to Mrs. Wright. Ironically, the clues to the murder are in these places. The women notice the misplaced loaf of bread, the birdcage and the quilt "that's not sewed very good" (1121). The crime scene is Continue Reading...
However, this relationship with a labor organization provides more than that. Former IWW members Larry Slade and Don Parritt are haunted by the organization. Although not a former member, Kalmer is an anarchist. The American Federation of Labor (AFL Continue Reading...
Pygmalion Effect and the Strong Women Who Prove it Wrong
Make this fair statue mine…Give me the likeness of my iv'ry maid (Ovid).
In Metamorphoses X, Ovid's Pygmalion prays that his idealized statue will become real. Strong female characters Continue Reading...
This skilled use of ironic prose is also observable in "A Jury of her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, as when the woman who has just committed murder tells the investigators: "after a minute...'I sleep sound.'" the tale depicts how a group of women gradua Continue Reading...
It was a love-hate situation, and he would be madly kissing her and letting her stir his carnal urges one moment, and the next he would loudly protest and pull away. So from that standpoint, Eben was changed after the death of the baby. He was not c Continue Reading...
Message, Different Genres
Literature is a means by which people can raise questions about the society they live in and address issues of concern to them. One of the questioned often raised relates to the role of women in society. Female writers are Continue Reading...
English Literature
Space, Confinement, & Women in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus -- but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition Continue Reading...
This conflict led Krebs to want to seek a staid, trouble free existence in which there were as few responsibilities and hardships incurred as a result as possible. In addition to the evidence already discussed that reinforces the truth of this thesi Continue Reading...
women are "limited" from the very beginning of the play even in the sense that nearly a third of the drama passes without any role from the women whatsoever -- they are minimized in the background as the men do their work. The men carry on their off Continue Reading...