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All About Triffles - Term Papers

All About Triffles

On the surface, Susan Glaspell's play Trifles focuses on a wife murdering her oppressive husband. The husband is abusing his wife emotionally out on a lonely secluded farm isolated from society in the Midwest. Under the surface, the behaviors of Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Wright in Glaspell's play to those of Clotho the Spinner, Lachesis the Disposer of Lots, and Atropos the Cutter of the Thread in Fate from Greek mythology(Meak86). Although Glaspell brings new meaning to the myth, the attention given to Mrs. Hale's resowing the quilt, the change in Mrs. Peter's perspective on law and justice, and the rope placed by Mrs. Wright around her husband's neck are part of the story of ...

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in conspiracy in the case controlling the outcome or the fate of all characters(Meak88). The information about the living condition of Wrights on the farm is supplied mainly by Mrs. Hale describes Mr. Wright as "a hard man," and she describes how she remembers Mrs. Wright when she was younger. She describes her as "kind of like a bird."(Glaspell571) She establishes the connection of Mr. Wrights's Involvement in the physical death of the canary and spiritual death of his wife. The way the men joke about the women's concern about Mrs. Wright's intention "to quilt or just knot" the quilt evokes a defensive remark from Mrs. Hale in which she hints that it is unwise to tempt fate; she asserts, "I don't see as it's anything to laugh about" (Glaspell571). Finally, by "just pulling out a stitch or two that's not sewed very good" and replacing it with her own stitching (Glaspell571), Mrs., Hale symbolically claims her position as the person who spins the thread of life.
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Added: 8/17/2008 08:43:31 PM
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