A wise man once said, “marriage can change a person, for better or for worse”, a phenomenon that is portrayed by Susan G. Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles. The play ponders the murder investigations of Mr. Wright, a man who was found dead, strangled by a rope. The sheriff and county attorney begin the investigation, as the men quickly try to find evidence to prove that Mrs. Wright killed her husband. On the other hand, the ladies, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peterson begin wondering around the murder scene
Hard Candy is a one act comedy about hiring practices for Banff Enterprises. It is set in the offices of employment at Banff Enterprises. The interesting part of the play is that every character that applies and gets hired takes over the job of the previous interviewer. I found it to be a very humorous play that deals with interviewing tactics and inter-office dilemmas. The only real main character is Linda the secretary who is the only continuing character throughout the entire play. Every other character
My initial inspiration for this piece was Trifles, which funnily enough only shares the characteristic of detectives being involved within the plot. As per suggestion on my proposal, I developed my idea of detectives solving a case further by including dialogue and inter-personnel relationships similar to those found in Glengarry Glen Ross. Taking the idea of different members of the real-estate office discussing work and plotting in Glengarry Glen Ross, and applying them to a trio of detectives
“Trifles” is a one act play that tells the events of farmer John Wright being murdered. During the middle of the night someone slipped a rope around his neck and strangled him to death, and the sole suspect is his quiet and forlorn wife, Minnie Wright. Throughout the course of the play, Glaspell has Mrs. Peter’s shifts in her view of what is moral and immoral as she begins to find things in the house that point to Mrs. Wright being guilty. I will tell of how Mrs. Peters changes her mind of what is
“Los Vendidos,” translated to “The Sellouts” by Luis Valdez is a one act play that draws attention to the prejudice against Mexicans. Salesman, Honest Sancho, is a used Mexican lot owner that sells “robots,” each representing a Mexican model stereotype. The secretary, Miss Jimenez, works for the governor of the town who has sent her to purchase a Mexican to help their votes. Sancho shows the secretary the many different Mexicans they have from a farm worker to Pachuco (a lazy Mexican that causes
“Trifles” is a one act play written by Susan Glaspell about a woman named Minnie Foster, who is accused of murdering her husband John Wright. Glaspell uses conflict between the characters, symbolism, and suspense to provide the reader with how different the men and women see the crime scene. Throughout this play, the men tend to assert their patriarchal dominance by leaving the women in the kitchen while they go upstairs to investigate the crime scene. As the play unfolds, the women begin to discover
The single act play “Trifles” is loosely based on the murder of a farmer in the state of Iowa in the early nineteenth century, which Glaspell reported on while working as a journalist. The farmer’s wife was accused of the murder, and was initially convicted, but later acquitted. Literary analysts note that Glaspell “approached the case like a detective” (Bryan and Wolf). More than a decade after that incident, when she was a career writer, analysts describe, “in a span of ten days, Glaspell composed
Presentation of the Characters of Antony and Cleopatra in Act One of William Shakespeare's Play The opulent backdrop of the palace at Alexandria provides Shakespeare, his readers and characters with the perfect scene with which to introduce a romance. For a romance it most certainly is, however at this junction it is apparent that all is not as blissful as it should be. The Roman Mark Anthony we understand to be the archetypal macho hero. Comparisons with the Greek God of
Romeo and Juliet is a famous play that was first performed between 1594 and 1595, it was first printed in 1597. Romeo and Juliet is not entirely fictional as it is based on two lovers who lived in Verona. The Montague’s and Capulet’s are also real. Romeo and Juliet is one of the ten tragedies that William Shakespeare wrote. In this essay, I aim to investigate what act 1, scene1 makes you expect about the rest of the play. In act 1 scene 1, the characters are all individual and unique. Shakespeare
Hamlet and Disease Throughout the play Hamlet, Shakespeare displays many underlying themes by way of imagery. Throughout the story, disease plagues Denmark and the people in it, shown by imagery that Shakespear delivers consistently throughout. In the opening scene, Horatio makes an interesting statement: "As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse (1.1
entire plot. In act one scene three, the witches say: `all hail, MacBeth! Hail to thee, thane of cawdor! ... All hail, MacBeth, that shalt be king hereafter!' (Line 47-50) these prophecies throw into his mind the possibility of further advancement to the highest level of the nobility. If the witches had not told MacBeth of their prophesies, there is little chance he would have thought about them himself, and even less chance he would have murdered king Duncan. In act three scene five
Catastrophes in Romeo and Juliet Many characters in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet invite the catastrophes they experience. These characters are Mercutio, Romeo, and Friar Laurence. Mercutio because he never thinks before he acts. He has a very big mouth and will say anything to create a joke. Romeo because of this fight with Tybalt. If this fight never occurred then the outcome of the story could have been better for Romeo and Juliet. Maybe there families could have set
imagery a lot in his books and this imagery also symbolises a person or a theme in the story. In the first line of act one scene two Duncan is asking his Lords who the bloody man stood before him is. He says that judging by his wounded state he could tell them of the latest news of the battle. This opening sentence sets the scene for the whole of the play, a bloody war. There is more blood when MacBeth and his lady have killed Duncan, the blood symbolises guilt so Lady MacBeth
In each of the five plays that we have studied throughout this semester: Oedipus the King, Black Watch, Life is a Dream, Noises Off, The Caretaker there were various characters that used the themes of loyalty, honor and duty to guide their actions in order to maintain a positive reputation and righteous self-image. For each of the five plays that we have discussed there is at least one example of characters using loyalty, honor and duty to maintain a righteous self-image, a positive reputation or
Pedro on June 10, 2016 at the Augusta Conradi Studio Theatre in Tallahassee, Fl. The play is exactly what it says, a night of ephemeral love. The production consisted of three one act plays, each play representing a relationship that involved love and attraction. The seven talented cast members performed the show hilariously making each moment full of laughter and drama. Primarily, the overall environment of the play was welcoming. The Augusta Conradi Studio Theatre building was relatively small and
There are instances in plays that when omitted disturbs the plot line. These instances may be small scenes, short actions, exchanges between characters, or an entire act. Failure to include these scenes often leads to many faults in the play, the worst of which is incoherence in the plot and the destruction of the progress through it. Certain plays have deeply interwoven scenes, which with the removal of one affect the rest greatly. This can be seen in William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. In particular
Mr. Burns Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play was a very interesting and excited play to see. Watching the play I really had to think because of the twists that came with the play. The author of this play was Anne Washburn, Michael Friedman scored it, and the lyrics were also from Anne Washburn. Casey Sams directed the play and Terry Silver-Alford was the musical director. I viewed this play at the Lab Theatre on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 7:30 in the evening. The Clarence Brown Theatre and
How does Shakespeare use dramatic devices in act 1 Scene 1 and in Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet in order to make them such an interesting, exciting and important drama? Romeo and Juliet is an Elizabethan play which was written to entertain the audience. It was written in 1595 by William Shakespeare and was one of his most popular plays. This romantic play was set in Italy in a city called Verona. The basic plot of this particular play is where a pair of two young “star crossed lovers” Juliet
The play, Our Town, written by author Thornton Wilder is certainly adept in terms of his literary techniques. The play commences as the audience in the theatre takes their seats and the play’s narrator, the Stage Manager, sets the stage with minimal props for the scenery. In Act One, the narrator delivers a vivid description of the town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire and introduces the story about the relationship between the Gibbs family and the Webb family. In the beginning of the play, the
The Ending to Eugene O'Neil's Long Day's Journey Into Night It is understandable that so many people in our class did not find the last act of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night a satisfying one; there is no tidy ending, no goodbye kisses or murder confessions; none of the charaters leave the stage with flowers in their hands or with smiles on their faces and none of the characters give explanatory monologues after the curtain falls, as we've become accustomed to by reading so much