Feminism In The Play Trifles

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In early twenties women started to fight society where male is the head of the family and where women were deprived from social role. Women were mainly given role of reproduction, which involved taking care of the household as well as their husband and raising children. Susan Glaspell who was a writer, who lived in early twenties this resulted a lot of her writings include feminist theme in them. This is especially seen in her play “Trifles” where she speaks up for women, which was written in 1916 at the time when women started to challenge their socially given roles.
Susan Glaspell chose protagonist as a married woman Minnie Wright who challenged expectations as a female by murdering her husband. While events unfolds it becomes understood …show more content…

Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find lots of clues that might link to solving the murder, while men experience lack of success. They realize that Minnie spender most of her days she spends alone, while her husband is working. Women believe that Minnie’s every move used to be controlled by her husband and it did not made her happy. By analyzing the house Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters can notice small stuff like quilt that the segment was sew less carefully than previous, draws a picture that Minnie was bothered by something lately. Most clues of them all has to be the cage and the bird itself. After discovering that, they knew that because John Wright killed something Minnie Wright loved, she decides to kill him. Those trifles eventually proves that Minnie Wright murdered her husband. Men never got to the solution of this murder, because they were not able to think like Minnie Wright. In men eyes dead birds are just dead birds, therefor women never let them know about their discovery. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters felt sorry for Minnie, because of her abusive husband and did not pay attention that she actually murdered another person. This is where the feminism theme shines through, after all the information women gained while being in the kitchen, they can accuse Mrs. Wright of murder or set her free. The kitchen becomes no longer a place that shows a woman’s role, but a place of

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