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Issues Of The Women 's ' Trifles '

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Professor Silvia Graham English 1102 15 July 2016 Issues of the Women in Trifles Trifles has long been considered a drama about feminism and the prejudice men develop toward women. The female characters Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Hale play a significant role in the drama because they produced minor evidence to solve a murder case. The women sympathize for Mrs. Wright because they want to find her motivation for killing her husband and covering up for it. Glaspell presents the male characters in the play as being ignorant and in and inability to connect with the women’s ideology. The men patronized and ridiculed the women ideas and characterized their activity in the house as being relatively unimportant. (Holstein 283) They devalued the women and made a valid point that the women were superior to them. Glaspell uses literal and symbolic references to show the nature of the relationship between the women in the men. One example of symbolism she uses is when the women find the body of the canary, its neck wrung in the manner as Minnie’s husband. The dead canary is a significant symbol throughout the drama because it allows the women to conclude the reason Mrs. Minnie committed the vicious crime against her husband. Glaspell uses the detail of the bird to symbolize Mrs. Wright as a jailed creature, and this correlates the how women were treated during the 19th century. The men, on the other hand, were presented indirectly to symbolize a prejudice creature who demonstrates their

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