There are several similarities and differences to be seen when comparing a written text to a visual play acted out in front of you. Both texts and visuals have a strong power to draw in their audience. The text-based drama Trifles and the visual-based drama Trifles have several similarities and differences that arise from reading versus watching the play. Text-based dramas rely on the words spoken from each character while visual-based dramas utilize stage sets, facial expressions, costumes and props in order to convey their message through the story. Trifles is a play written by Susan Glaspell that has been replicated many times on stage. This play was written in 1916 about a group of people trying to uncover the mysteries of the death of John Wright. Before the first …show more content…
There is also a difference in the Sheriff's response when reading the play versus watching it. In the text, the Sheriff states, I knew you could get back from Omaha by today and as long as I went over everything here myself (Glaspell 14-15). The reader could interpret this to be a casual sentence as well as when the attorney was speaking and the Sheriff could be portraying friendship with the attorney. However, in the visual representation of the play, the viewer can see the Sheriff put his arms out in a subtle frustration. After hearing the attorney's tone of voice, the Sheriff has a defensive attitude that is not portrayed in the text. This body language and tone of voice changes from text to visuals because the reader has more creative freedom to imagine a slightly different tone of voice or body language. If the playwright did not say that the sheriff put his arms out, then the reader would not imagine that kind of frustration. However, this is why playwrights utilize stage directions. These stage directions give the reader a chance to see movement from the
Susan Glaspell was an american playwright, novelist, journalist, and actress, alongside being a strong feminist. Her writings mainly explored contemporary social issues such as gender and ethics. The play “Trifles” is loosely based on the trial of Margaret Hossack for the murder of her husband, John Hossack, which Susan reported during her time of being a journalist of “Des Moines Daily”. Her report was based out of Warren County in Iowa. This vicious murder stunned and divided the close-knit
primarily of a domestic nature. Trifles by Susan Glaspell indicates that a man’s perspective is entirely different from a woman’s. The one-act play, Trifles, is a murder mystery which examines the lives of rural, middle-aged, married, women characters through gender relationships, power between the sexes, and the nature of truth. The play, written in the early 1900s, long before the women’s movement and while men considered women their possessions. In the story of Trifles, it is easy to recognize the
prevalent during this time. As a result Susan Glaspell dedicated many, if not all of her works as dramas describing the restricting view of women living in the early twentieth century. Feminism shows how males dominated in society. During the twentieth century women seem suppressed, oppressed, and often times left out when it comes to their marriage. Women during this time were silenced while living under the negative effects of a patriarchal society. Susan Glaspell took a turn for the better when describing
Works cited Glaspell. Susan. “A Jury Of Peers.” Annenberg Learner, Annenberg Foundation ,2016. Glaspell, susan Trifles. Mirrors and Windows : connecting with literature , edited by Brenda Owens, EMC Publishing, 2016,pp. 708-722 Unit 8 Essay In many stories and movies a person might see the world from a point of view but in the play A Jury Of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell we see the story from a third person point of view objective. Which means that the reader can not hear the thoughts or emotions
Peers" and the play Trifles both written by Susan Glaspell the story and the play were both so correlative but had some slight differences. When comparing any book to a movie or a play the biggest problem is the lack of detail and development of characters in the play compared to the book. Furthermore one advantage that Trifles had over "A Jury of Her Peers" was the visual aspect of watching a play versus reading the book , the book can be very detailed and paint a picture but the play has total
Nineteenth Century In Susan Glaspell play, Trifles the actions of the characters and parts of the play gets Glaspell disapproval of gender-role stereotypes. The play explores the classical male stereotype by stating that women almost always worry about things of little or no importance. Glaspell uses a plot of murders to play out the rules of women in the nineteenth century. These particular roles distributed out by the men who thought that the only thing women were bothered with are trifles, or things that
“Trifles” and “A Jury of Her Peers” are extremely similar to one another. Most of the dialogue is taken directly from the play and placed into the short story. There are two main differences: the first is the difference between the titles and the second is the difference in characterization. The title “Trifles” tells us that the play is about particular objects. The play focuses on the objects that judge Minnie Foster. On the other hand, the title “A Jury of Her Peers” tells us the story will
Susan Glaspell wrote Trifles in 1916 and later made a short story out of it. They both explain the plot of Minnie who is accused of murdering her husband. He is found dead in bed with a rope around his neck. Three men come to Minnie’s house to carry out an investigation of the murder of her husband. Due to the year the story takes place in, women didn’t have the rights they do today. This plays a significant role in the two stories as it depicts how men looked at women. A comparison of “Trifles”
women were often treated as second class citizens to men. Susan Glaspell wrote the play “Trifles,” in 1916, which portrayed how women’s lives were seen as less significant throughout American society. The following year, Glaspell wrote the short story “A Jury of Her Peers,” which was essentially a longer and more detailed version of “Trifles.” The stories are alike in many societal implications, since “A Jury of Her Peers” was based off of “Trifles.” However, they also have some notable differences.
and Visual Elements in Trifles Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles, shows the importance of staging, gestures, and props to create the proper atmosphere of a play. Without the development of the proper atmosphere through directions from the author, the whole point of the play may be missed. Words definitely do not tell the whole story in Trifles - the dialog only complements the unspoken. Susan Glaspell tells us her vision of the Wright's kitchen, where the action of her play "Trifles" takes
Analysis of Susan Glaspell Trifles The play, Trifles by Susan Glaspell shows her preoccupation with gender and sex roles as notions of culture. The author is spells out the treatment of women as mere trifles in the society, as less important when compared to men. This calls for the questioning of the role of both men and women in the society with regard to the value and devalue given to perspective and knowledge. The reader should thus realize that women have an important role to play in the society
it’s all just a different kind of the same thing” (561) is a line spoken in Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles. Writers look at the world around them and envision the way it should be. They take bits and pieces of their life’s landscape, add a liberal dose of surreal ideology and finally toss in human oppressions. To that end, the writer hopes to create a memorable character that can touch the human soul for eternity. Susan Glaspell, a writer in the early twentieth century, lived during a time when women
works. In order to carry out these objectives , the essay will show a comparison between two feminist artistic representations from each century: Trifles 1916 and Mas vale Lola que mal acompañada 2017; and specific information from each representation like their plots, their origins or who are the main characters of each one. In 1916, Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell created a significant scene with a short story based on a play written in 1916. A Jury of Her Peers reveals a setting of Dickson County in March, when a farmers lonely wife allegedly murdered her husband and a team of investigators and their wives assembled to search for motive. Women of the time were oppressed and striving to find their way in society while continuing to uphold their family name and producing acceptable households . America was surging ahead to World War I and
Trifles, by Susan K. Glaspell, is a play written in 1917 when the need for women's rights was sought. Throughout the years, many productions of the play have taken place, as the story is famous for it’s strong opinion on the treatment of women, however many directors take what they can from the story to give their interpretation of the characters, setting, and the plot. A video production of A Jury of Her Peers, directed by Sally Heckel, will be different than an audio production of the same play