Susan Sellers

at the time as well as displaying the endless strife that the soldiers had to endure for four long years. In Journeys End, Sheriff portrays many different emotions through the central character ‘Captain Stanhope’ and similarly in Strange Meeting, Susan Hill does the same with ‘John Hilliard’. In this essay I will compare and contrast the way that both these central characters are presented in the texts. In Sheriff’s Journey 's End, Stanhope is presented as respected from act one. From the start

A Love Gone Bad A woman who was once full of life and happiness is now left with no joy in her life. In the play, “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, we see how Mrs. Wright has changed over the years. We see how cheerful she was before marrying Mr. Wright. While trying to solve the murder, the author uses symbolism, conflict, and irony. The are many examples of conflict in this play. The most apparent conflict is that between the men and the women in the play. In the first parts of the investigation,

meaning within a story through literary analysis. This helps make the moral of the story more meaningful to the specific reader. In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” “A Jury of Her Peers,” and “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” Katherine Porter, Susan Glaspell, and Gabriel Marquez use one or more predominant symbols to enforce the integrity of the message they are trying to convey to their readers. One example of strong symbolism is in “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” by Katherine Porter when

identities, but over time can lose the identities they have through society, through a marriage, or through one’s own self. Willy Loman, a delusional salesman, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; Minnie Wright, an unhappy and lonely housewife, in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles; and Oedipus, a king with excessive pride and

The Family consisted mainly of Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, Charles "Tex" Watson, Bobby Beausoleil, Mary Brunner, and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme. Manson’s motive to begin killing all started when he had told the family “Helter Skelter” was coming, Helter Skelter

Are women having more expectations tacked on that include more than beauty, such as a marriage, a family, or a career? Or are women still only expected to be humble yet beautiful? Deborah Tannen and Susan Sontag tackle these issues of women’s beauty expectations in their respective articles “Marked Women” and “A Woman’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?” Tannen tells of her story in realizing how, in society, “[women are] marked [by nearly every aspect of their appearances, whereas men, for the

The piano lesson playwright August Wilson. The piano lesion is about the African American family. It’s about the history of their family. “The Piano Lesson” is published in 1936, with all the action taking place in the house of Doaker Charles. Main character of the play is Berniece 's brash, impulsive, and fast-talking brother, the thirty-year-old Boy Willie introduces the central conflict of the play and berniece is the sister of boy Willie, “The Piano Lesson” is a brother and sister couple at war

analyzing symbols can help expand the reader’s knowledge of what certain actions or evens can mean during the play. Symbols can be found throughout both Trifles and Othello, and each one helps further the plot or enhance characterization in some way. Susan Glaspell and William Shakespeare both use powerful symbols to further the plot and enhance character development. In Trifles, one of the most important symbols play is the birdcage that Mrs. Wright had stashed away within her kitchen. During the play

In the cold December of 1900, an Iowa farmer named John Hossack was found murdered in his bed. Susan Glaspell, a worker for the Des Moines Dailey News at the time, covered the case of his wife Margaret, who was thought to be guilty for his death. In over a dozen newspaper articles, Glaspell discusses the crime, the suspicion, and the eventual decision of Margaret Hossack 's innocence in the murder. Almost fifteen years later, Glaspell would use this case to inspire her one act play Trifles. Names

less intelligent than the average man, according to the government during the 1900’s. The men were usually responsible for being brave, strong and fearless. Along with having the benefit of their word or what men say goes. The 1912 play Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, who was inspired to write this play from a story she covered as a reporter. A murder case is being held and authorities are getting down to it suspecting a woman of killing her husband in his sleep. The character Mrs. Hale who is neighbors