Trifles is a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. In the play, Glaspell makes great use of irony, symbolism, and metaphors, she also makes a great play for the newly emerging feminist movement. We first see women’s suffrage and fight for equal rights taking root in the 1840’s, and then in the 1890’s a movement, termed the Feminist movement, began to take place. This movement advocates women’s suffrage and fight for equal rights, and challenges the long-standing nature of the “female role”
Throughout history, women have been portrayed as inferior creatures to their male counterparts. Men have displayed their superiority privately in the midst of a marriage and then more publicly being recognized as the “head of the house” making women feel lesser than men. This discrimination based on the sex of a person has oppressed women from all areas of the world. The theme of sexism and gender is revealed in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles through the setting, conflict, and choice of irony exhibited
Learning Through Experience: How and Why the Women’s Perception in Trifles Differed from the Men In Susan Glaspell’s famous play, Trifles, a murder mystery takes place with the investigation of recently deceased husband, John Wright, and his suspicious wife, Minnie Wright, at an abandoned farmhouse. Those who are there to investigate are a local sheriff and a county attorney with the help of a neighbor by the name of Mr. Hale for questioning. Although there is a full male presence within this
Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” is a literary work that details the duties of women in the Caribbean. Kincaid uses this story as a way of conveying the view and work of women not in just the Caribbean, but in the world at the time. Being written in 1978, “Girl” gives a retrospective view on patriarchal society at the time. Words such as “benna”, “okra”, and “dasheen” are associated with a tropical Caribbean area, which makes sense since Kincaid was born and raised in Antigua. Kincaid chronicles what is