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Analysis of Plot in Susan Glaspell's Trifles and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

In 5 pages this paper examines the feminist aspects of these plays in an analysis of the plot structures of each. There are no ot...

Ibsen and Glaspell

overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...

Susan Glaspell's Trifles

at Mrs. Wrights kitchen and her home. They are talking about her with deep compassion and empathy, discussing her jarred fruit fre...

Trifles

death, thus solving the conflict for themselves. The men, however, do not know the truth and the women will not tell them so for t...

A Doll’s House, Trifles and Keeping Secrets

of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...

Tragic Personality of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...

"A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell

This essay pertains to Susan Glaspell's " A Jury of Her Peers." The writer argues that Glaspell provides a scathing social critiqu...

"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen

This essay asserts that Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" presents a convincing argument that a woman could be herself, that is, an au...

Literary Characters and Conflict

seething, boiling and discontent as the odd angled buildings and broken windows. It can be the quiet solitude of a rustic church, ...

Popularity of the Play Trifles in the Next Century

is three men discussing a crime, at the crime scene, and while they discuss and figure out where evidence may be, the women who we...

Analysis of Thesis Featured in Trifles by Susan Glaspell

is precisely what happened and that justice was done. Minnie was judged not guilty by a true "jury of her peers" consisting of Mrs...

Literary Functioning of Symbolism and Setting

In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...

Short Stories and Rounded Character Building

The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

In five pages Glaspell's tale is analyzed in a consideration of setting and characterization. There are no other sources cited....

Three Literary Protagonists Improving Their Lives

An analysis consisting of five pages compares the ways in which three protagonists attempt to improve their lives. The works exam...

Wives and Crime in Trifles and Sweat

first introduced to the condescending nature of men in general when one man says, in relationship to the state of the house, "Not ...

Chopin and Glaspell: Marriage and Society

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...

Glaspell: "A Jury of Her Peers"

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

Justice, Murderers, Susan Glaspell's Trifles and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”

men are following a "preset plan" in their search for evidence and are, therefore, convinced at the end of the play that they have...

Questions on Hedda Gabler

suicide. When Judge Brack discerns Heddas role in Lovborgs suicide, he threatens blackmail and Hedda, too, commits suicide. Why ...

Nora in A Doll’s House

her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...

The Problem of Free Will and How It is Treated in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

Virginia Woolf and Ibsen

When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...

A Doll’s House and A Raisin in the Sun

in this case. The setting of the plays could also be associated with the setting that relates to money. In both plays one of the...

Chopin’s Edna and Ibsen’s Nora

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

A Critical Look at A Doll's House

yet to come in society at large. In Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, the protagonist is a woman who has in...

Early Feminist Writings by Chopin and Ibsen

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

Greek Tragedy and Naturalist Theater

in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...