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Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, is considered as anoutstanding solo one-act drama in the history of Literature. Backto the early 20th century, it was a callous patriarchal society andas the title of this drama, Trifles, suggests, the concerns ofwomen are often considered to be mere trifles, unimportant issuesthat bear little or no importance to the true work of society,which, of cour, is being carried out by men. In this drama SusanGlaspell not only reflect the relative value of men’s and
women’sperspectives but also criticizes this value ina subtle but ironical way. In order to give an literary analysis onTrifles, this essay will be divided into two parts: Plot Analysisand Theme Analysis. Theme Analysis: Susan Glaspell wrote this playfrom a real news report which revealed a common phenomenon thatwomen were not as equal as men and nobody
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cared about women’s mindsor even their lives. However , it was just the trifles disdained by the men in this drama thatgave the fatal
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evidence for this murder. The attorney and sheriffpoke fun at their wives and their 'trifles.' When the men thinkthere is nothing important in the room by saying “Nothing here butkitchen things” and head upst airs to look for scene evidences forthe murder, their wives examine the so-called not important kitchenstuff where they find clues pointing to Mrs. Wright's guilt. Inother areas of the hou, the women discover more clues that themen overlooked as mere
'trifles'. The men in this play betray an of
lf-importance, and they prent themlves as
tough,rious-minded detectives while in truth, they are not nearly asobrvant as their female wives. Their pompous attitude caus thewomen to feel defensive and form ranks.蛙泳口诀
问候图片 Not only do Mrs. Hale andMrs. Peters bonds, but also they cho to withhold evidence as anact of compassion for Mrs. Wright. Stealing the box with the deadbird is an act of loyalty to their gender and also an act ofdefiance against a callous patriarchal society. Trifles areactually not trifles at all. What an irony!
Plot Analysis: 'Trifles' is a play with an unified plot. It followsthe Aristotelian “Unities”with the evidence that the entire drama'splot begins and ends in a span of one day
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and in the single ttingof kitchen room and all the plot centers on John Wright's murder.Farmer John Wright has been murdered with a rope around his neckwhile he is asleep in the midnight. And the suspect might be hiswife. It emed obvious to the male characters that Mrs. Wrightkilled her husband, and she has been taken into custody as theprime suspect. The attorney and sheriff decide to find evidence topoint to Mrs. Wright's guilt, so they went to the Wright houtogether with their wives. This is the rising
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action for the wholeplot. In dealing with figuring out the murder evidence, the men andwomen react differently. The drama built the plot and characterstogether in a few different ways. The men are very objective andtask-oriented, they wanted to get to the point and do their archof the crime scene upstairs, and consider any smaller points later.Some of what was said but put off to be considered later actuallyimplied some foreshadowing of the real issue surrounding Wright'sdeath. Unlike the men who were looking for forensic evidence tosolve the crime, the women in Trifles obrved clues that revealthe bleakness of Mrs. Wright’s emotional life, like ruined fruitprerves, an unfinished quilt, an empty bird
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二战中国死亡人数 cage and so manyother trifles. While the men were going about business and beingobjective, the women were looking over what Mrs. Wright left behindand subjectively trying to understand what happened. When gatheringup the quilting material, they discovered a fancy little
box.Inside, wrapped in silk was a dead canary with its neck been wrung.The women realized the implication that Mrs. Wright’s husband didnot like the canary’s beautiful song (a symbol of his wife’s desirefor freedom and happiness). So Mr. Wright busted the cage door andstrangled the bird. As a sympathy for Mrs. Wright and defiance fortheir husbands’ disappreciation, the two women decided to withholdthe evidence. They don not tell the men about their discovery.Instead, Mrs. Hale put the box with the decead bird into her coatpocket resolving not to tell the men about this little “trifle”they have discovered, which is the climax for the plot. Theresolution and the denouement is pretty unexpected that the womenhid the crime evidence rather than putting Mrs. Wright guilty bytelling their husbands the discovery. The events in the plot arerealistic and all events happen not becau of random chance butinevitably as women have been ignored and regarded小鸡炖土豆
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as trifles forso long and begin to resist. By hiding the dead bird, the women hidthe vital
evidence to this murder and this is the subplot in thisdrama, but it is inevitable as the drama progress.
那一刻 From the theme to the plot, Trifles is unique. Trifles, the titleof this drama, is a symbol itlf. Trifles symbolize to the menthat everything that women care and think is valueless andunimportant. In esnce, women are 'trifles.' However, SusanGlaspell puts the scene in the kitchen room, the domestic sphere,which is the world for women and revolves around the lives ofwomen. Moreover, she also puts the male characters and femalecharacters in very different ways, the men thinking themlves areomnipotent and detective and disdaining their wives’ findings astrifles while the women are obrvant and compassionate andmalcontented with their husbands’ disappreciatio n. When the womenfound the vital evidence from every subtle clues, they feelsympathetic to the pains, loneliness and frustration of Mrs.Wright. The women experience a hesitation about whether to hidethis evidence of a motive and help out a fellow wife, or whether togo with the law and look at everything from the single standpointof her having
