Susan Glaspell and modernism

Makowsky, Veronica

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“…Further, he apparently believes that he breaks Minnie's spirit as he breaks her pet canary's neck since, as many critics have noted, the unmarried Minnie has sung beautifully in the context of the communal art of the choir. 32 The title of the play is illuminating because it depicts a conventional patriarchal view about women as beings who are interested in trifles or trivialities. Ironically, those same trivialities come to reveal or construct the truth which is only apparent for the woman characters in the play but not for the men.…”

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“…7 Trifles, as typical of Glaspell, expresses women's fears as well as hopes for modern times and modernist art. 8 Thus, Glaspell's play Trifles (1916) is one of the early attempts of an American woman playwright to tackle the women's psychological, social, and economic problems. Glaspell's one-act play, short as it is, discusses very serious issues about family life and the role of woman in it.…”

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Psychological Domestic Violence against Woman as Reflected in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles

Mhayyal

2023

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Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was one of the pioneering American female playwrights who evolved into visibility at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the twentieth. She had celebrated in her personal and literary life the advent of the new woman striving to fulfill her dreams in a hostile and intensive world. Glaspell based her first dramatic play, Trifles, on an actual murder case she covered while working as a journalist.1 She may write her piece, Trifles, as an explanation for why a woman may murder her husband. In her attempt to explain, Glaspell created the character of Minnie Wright who is oppressed by her husband to the extreme. To fully free herself, Minnie escapes by way of strangling her husband to death. Thematically speaking, Glaspell’s Trifles handles women’s issues in a time where women like Minnie Wright were often forced to remain with “either father or husband just to have a roof over their heads. The life of a solitary woman without male protection was not an attractive option.”2 In Trifles, the troubled marriage of the Wrights has culminated in Minnie Wright strangling her husband, John. The men vainly look for signs of violent rage, but the women, with growing empathy, are able to recognize the signs of quiet desperation under which many women of their time were forced to live. Glaspell contrasts male and female perspectives throughout the play, and engages the audiences’ sympathy firmly on the side of the women. Susan C. W. Abbotson indicates that “We are asked to witness Mrs. Wright’s life rather than Mr. Wright’s death, and we are shown that the true ‘crime’ has been the way she was being subjugated and ‘destroyed’ by her marriage.”3 Mr. Wright sees women as a submissive group whose concerns hold

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2023

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“…Glaspell also focuses on the social problems that threatened the foundations of the American society hoping that her writings could direct the audience's attention towards improving their situations. (Ben-Zvi 2005; Makowsky 1999).…”

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The Spousal Abuse of Women in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles

Ahmed

2018

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This research plans to focus on the spousal abuse of women in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles. Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) is one of the remarkable American female playwrights whose main literary concern is focusing on women issues. The drama of Trifles is considered her master piece in which she sympathises with the American abused women and speaks up for them. American woman is still suffering from spousal abuse but in the early 20thcentury this problem was ignored, excused or denied because women did not have their legal rights and were treated as being inferior than men. The system then gave men the authority over women in all aspects of society even at home. When speaking about abused women, critics’ main concern is the physical effects of the abuse ignoring other types of the spousal abuse, their impacts and consequences. Through her realistic drama of Trifles, Glaspell exposes different types of spousal abuse which are important as the physical onesince they have bad impact on the victims. This research will analysethe types of spousal abuse in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles, their impact and consequences.

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Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: Staging Feminism and Modernism, 1915-1941

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2007

A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama

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Susan Glaspell and modernism

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Psychological Domestic Violence against Woman as Reflected in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles

Psychological Domestic Violence against Woman as Reflected in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles

The Spousal Abuse of Women in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles

Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: Staging Feminism and Modernism, 1915-1941

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