Essays on Jury Of Her Peers

Literature analysis: “Trifles”

“Trifles” is a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell and it deals with the murder of John Wright. The play is about feminism because women protect one another although they seem to be dependent on their husbands. The main theme in the story is Mrs. Wright’s guilt and although it is not proven, it is implicated, bit the women still protect her. The characters in the story are: County Attorney, Henderson, the Sheriff, his wife, Mrs. Peters, Hale, a farmer who is a neighbor and his wife Mrs. Hale. Mrs. Wright is deprived of her name as are ...

The original title of Trifles was Jury of Her Peers: The Importance of Trifles, explores the gap between male and female perceptions of judgment. The central character never appears on stage. Mrs. Wright’s husband John Wright was murdered in his sleep and is already in jail, now the sheriff, the neighbor who discovered the crime and the County Attorney are back looking for evidence of the wife’s guilt. The wives come too. After the men dismiss the contents of the kitchen as trifles, nothing but women’s things and go upstairs to find hard evidence the women ...

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This paper focuses on gender differences separating the boys from the girls. It considers historic gender based roles and looks at how those roles are perpetuated today. It reflects on how the gender roles are reinforced from before birth in how the parents and their friends design the nursery and plan the layette. This paper also reflects on how those roles continue to receive reinforcement during the educational process and how it might affect adult men and women.

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Thesis: The early conditioning boys and girls receive results in vastly different treatment and life choices later on. Argument: ...

Glaspell’s character Minnie Wright from “A Jury of her Peers” is fundamentally a character created to instigate discussion about the complex relationship between the genders as it exists in Western society. Minnie Wright is a woman that is suspected of killing her husband via strangulation; the murder is discovered by a man named Mr. Hale. Mr. Hale tells the story of the discovery of the murder, claiming that Minnie Wright, at the time of the discovery, was acting in an extraordinarily odd manner. The story goes on to discuss the search for evidence, and the ways that the searchers split down ...

According to Laurence Perrine, there are two primary purposes for any literature – to entertain and enlighten. While entertaining is the easier part, Perrine opines that a literature should do more than just entertain, if it is worth scholarly scrutiny. Thus, a fiction can be categorized into escape and interpretive literature. An escape literature is one, which mainly aims at entertaining and intended as a time pass. Whereas, an interpretive literature aims at making the reader delve more intensely into the world around him. While an escape literature aims at taking its reader away from his world for a while, an interpretive literature takes ...

Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story written in 1917 that revolves around the murder of a farmer, John Wright. Minnie Wright, John’s wife, is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband and awaits trial. Sheriff Peters and Lewis Hale, accompanied by their wives, and George Henderson, a country attorney, travel to the crime scene, the isolated house. The women join their husbands to collect some of Minnie’s personal items. Initially, Mrs. Hale feels sympathy for Minnie and she expresses her disapproval of how the men are “snoopin’ round and criticizin’” her kitchen (200). On ...

The American Dream has proven to be a highly elusive goal for many people. While there are quite a few stories of people who made themselves into successes, for many other people, that success has not only proven to be hard to come by, the difficulties of life, even in America, have shown that human nature can overcome even the best of intentions. From the very earliest American writers, such as Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne, to such satirists as H.L. Mencken and Mark Twain, to the pessimistic worldviews that emerged during the Jazz Age with Fitzgerald and Hemingway, and even ...