The Role of Women in Trifles and The Jewelry In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles‚ written around 1915‚ the role of women is superior to the men’s role and in Guy de Maupassant’s story‚ The Jewelry‚ the woman has an inferior role‚ and in the end‚ we find out that she was not a faithful wife. As the two stories are set at the turn of the twentieth century‚ the readers come to believe that women were not treated with much respect or thought to be intelligent; they were merely there to make children and
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Akbar Prof. Fallas ENG 102-70 8 Aug 2011 Trifles Characters in Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles separate along gender lines definitively in step with the social distinctions between men and women that were coming under fire by the 1920s. While this was likely a hot issue for audiences when the play was first performed‚ the developing subtext of gender issues is distanced from the conscious mind of participants through the vehicle of setting
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the subordinate sex in the private sphere was not the only facet of gendered inequality at the turn of the century. Officially and publicly‚ adult women were denied the right to exercise their voice in political elections. Although at the time of "Trifles ’" writing‚ women ’s suffrage was already a powerful political movement across the Atlantic in England — and had gained a strong foothold in the United States throughout the nineteenth century thanks to suffragists such as Frances Wright‚ Elizabeth
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Christine Pena Prof. Compton ENG 102 28 April 2014 Comparative Analysis: Trifles vs. A Jury of Her Peers During the 1900s‚ women are basically downgraded by men who does not understand the hard work that the women does in their everyday chores. Susan Glaspell‚ author of Trifles and Jury of Her Peers‚ highlighted the portrayal of men’s superiority over women in both of her works. She was the journalist who covered the John Hossack murder case which are the bases of both the short story and the
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News. Trifles‚ written in 1916‚ was one of her most famous plays. Trifles is reflected off the sex roles and gender play in the 1900s. In Susan Glaspell’s Trifles‚ one important hidden theme is feminism. Feminist criticism is concerned with "the ways in which literature reinforce or undermine the economic‚ political‚ social‚ and psychological oppression of women" (Tyson). Feminism is symbolized throughout this story in many ways. There are plenty symbols that can related
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Susan Glaspell’s short story “A Jury of Her Peers” is more effective than her play Trifles at depicting the marginalization of women. Given only the text of the stories‚ and not taking into consideration the acting in the play‚ “Jury” far surpasses Trifles in conveying how women were basically disregarded as having any insight into “manly” matters such as a murder investigation. Trifles was written in 1916 and “Jury” was written in 1917. During this time period women were thought to be lower than
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Susan Glaspell’s play‚ Trifles‚ explores the fact that women pay attention to the little things that may lead to the solving of a bigger problem. Why are women so into the little things? The attention to detail seems to be the starting point to solving the bigger problem. Think of the little things as pieces of a puzzle. When the small pieces come together you see the bigger picture. In the play Trifles the men seem to think the women only worry about the little things‚ or trifles. What the men do not
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Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (1916) is about the fine line between moral beliefs and justice. Susan Glaspell was a pioneer for feminist drama. She was the daughter of a grain dealer and grew into one of America’s greatest play writers. She also attended college at Drake University and was a reporter for some time. Her inspiration for writing plays came later when she married a theatrical director named George Cook. It is because of him that she established Americas first influential noncommercial theater
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Melissa Prather English 102 Research Paper May 8th‚ 2012 Understanding Feminism in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles Susan Glaspell lived during a time where women’s rights were not fully acknowledged. The oppression of women during this time stretched to the point that they were not truly acknowledged as their own person. They were to be seen and not heard so to speak. Their sole purpose was to take care of their families by keeping house and performing their caretaker duties. Glaspell even demonstrates
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something as simple as voting. They were given positions of lesser status in their personal‚ and professional lives. So from that oppression rose two works of literature which are Trifles (written by Susan Glaspell) and The Story of an Hour (written by Kate Chopin). I chose to compare The Story of an Hour with Trifles because The Story of an Hour had an interesting twist and I could see that deep‚ intricate thought was put into it. This research paper will examine the similarities and the differences
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