The Sheriff and the County Attorney believe that they are superior to the women. They make fun of the women for paying attention to small things, or trifles. they felt that women were supposed to be housekeepers.
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2 Educator Answers TRIFLES In Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters hide the box with the bird’s body in it. Why? In Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, Mrs. Minnie Wright has been accused of murdering her husband as he slept. A group of men and a pair of women arrive at the beginning of the play, entering the... 1 Educator Answer TRIFLES Compare and contrast Mrs. Hale and ...
English; Literature; Literature questions and answers; What attitudes toward women do the Sheriff and the County Attorney express? How do Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters react to these sentiments? 2.Why does the County Attorney care so much about discovering a motive for the killing? 3.What does Glaspell show us about the position of women in this early twentieth-century community? 4.What do we ...
Lewis Hale recounts how he discovered Mrs. Wright acting bizarrely, as she told him that her husband was murdered while she was sleeping. Although a gun had been in the house, Wright was gruesomely strangled with a rope.
For a character who is not present in the drama, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters act as the voice of Minnie Wright. From Mrs. Hale, especially, the reader learns that Mrs. Wright, formerly Minnie Foster ...
The Sheriff and County Attorney looked down on the women and belittled them at every opportunity. As for the women, they didn't cater to the men or their demeaning behavior; they had a comeback for every comment.
They were belittling towards the women by making a comment on a conversation the women were having about fruit. They commented that women always worry over non-significant things. The women just accepted the comments as if it is something they are used to.
He merely wanted a story to present to the jurors on why Mrs. Wright killed her husband. He felt that the jurors would not convict a woman if there is no evidence or a motive presented.
When Oedipus and Jocasta begin to get close to the truth about Laius's murder, in Oedipus the King, Oedipus fastens onto a detail in the hope of exonerating himself. Jocasta says that she was told that Laius was killed by "strangers," whereas Oedipus knows that he acted alone when he killed a man in similar circumstances. This is an extraordinary moment because it calls into question the entire truth-seeking process Oedipus believes himself to be undertaking. Both Oedipus and Jocasta act as though the servant's story, once spoken, is irrefutable history. Neither can face the possibility of what it would mean if the servant were wrong. This is perhaps why Jocasta feels she can tell Oedipus of the prophecy that her son would kill his father, and Oedipus can tell her about the similar prophecy given him by an oracle, and neither feels compelled to remark on the coincidence; or why Oedipus can hear the story of Jocasta binding her child's ankles and not think of his own swollen feet. While the information in these speeches is largely intended to make the audience painfully aware of the tragic irony, it also emphasizes just how desperately Oedipus and Jocasta do not want to speak the obvious truth: they look at the circumstances and details of everyday life and pretend not to see them.
In drama, a speech by a character alone onstage in which he or she utters his or her thoughts aloud.
Trifles isn't really about the mystery of the murder but rather about showing us the struggle of women in that time, via an unusual situation. It's not a horror story, but a feminist piece of literature. Our motivation to keep watching is not the actual murder but rather the burning question of if the two women will protect Mrs. Wright, who they know suffered at the hands of her husband and lived an unhappy life, or if they will do what is expected of them from society and play into the whims of the men.
They were belittling towards the women by making a comment on a conversation the women were having about fruit. They commented that women always worry over non-significant things. The women just accepted the comments as if it is something they are used to.
He merely wanted a story to present to the jurors on why Mrs. Wright killed her husband. He felt that the jurors would not convict a woman if there is no evidence or a motive presented.
When Oedipus and Jocasta begin to get close to the truth about Laius's murder, in Oedipus the King, Oedipus fastens onto a detail in the hope of exonerating himself. Jocasta says that she was told that Laius was killed by "strangers," whereas Oedipus knows that he acted alone when he killed a man in similar circumstances. This is an extraordinary moment because it calls into question the entire truth-seeking process Oedipus believes himself to be undertaking. Both Oedipus and Jocasta act as though the servant's story, once spoken, is irrefutable history. Neither can face the possibility of what it would mean if the servant were wrong. This is perhaps why Jocasta feels she can tell Oedipus of the prophecy that her son would kill his father, and Oedipus can tell her about the similar prophecy given him by an oracle, and neither feels compelled to remark on the coincidence; or why Oedipus can hear the story of Jocasta binding her child's ankles and not think of his own swollen feet. While the information in these speeches is largely intended to make the audience painfully aware of the tragic irony, it also emphasizes just how desperately Oedipus and Jocasta do not want to speak the obvious truth: they look at the circumstances and details of everyday life and pretend not to see them.
In drama, a speech by a character alone onstage in which he or she utters his or her thoughts aloud.
Trifles isn't really about the mystery of the murder but rather about showing us the struggle of women in that time, via an unusual situation. It's not a horror story, but a feminist piece of literature. Our motivation to keep watching is not the actual murder but rather the burning question of if the two women will protect Mrs. Wright, who they know suffered at the hands of her husband and lived an unhappy life, or if they will do what is expected of them from society and play into the whims of the men.