Imagine that your telephone lines cross and you hear you own murder plot. In the suspenseful radio play “Sorry,Wrong Number” by Lucille Fletcher Mrs.Stevenson is murdered by a man her husband hires after he is fed up with her actions. Because Mrs.Stevenson is demanding,delusional and rude she gets killed. Mrs.Stevenson is rude to the other people in the play. This is evident when she talks over the police officer in line (506). Throughout the play Mrs.Stevenson answers the operator with a salty attitude when he is only trying to help in line (176). This means that she most likely treats everyone this way. Mrs.Stevenson has a hard time believing reality. What I mean by this is she’s delusional about the way people perceive her. This is evident
...ontradicting herself, and pointing the finger. Although she most likely has experienced these acts of unjust treatment, she seems to put the reader in the position to doubt the credibility of what she has to say time and again.
Stevenson discusses his journey as an attorney for the condemned on death row. He speaks of
Throughout the play I felt that the male characters had more of the negative qualities and the female characters had more of the positive qualities. One major reason for this is because men during the 1950s were viewed as stern and the man of the house. This preconceived gender role associated with men automatically required them to come off as negative at times, where the women were more positive. The reason Hansberry had the women represent more positive qualities was due to what responsibilities women had during this era. Women were seen mostly as caretakers, which caused them to be nurturing and encouraging to their children. The roles of men and women during the ‘50s were very different and called for very different views on how to
Devising the perfect murder is a craft that has been manipulated and in practice dating back to the time of the biblical reference of Cain and Abel. In the play, “Trifles” exploration is focused on the empathy one has for a murderer who feels they have no alternative from their abuser. As a multifaceted approach, the author Glaspell gives her audience a moral conflict as to whether murder should be condemned based on the circumstances rather than the crime. Presenting Mrs. Wright as the true victim of the crime of domestic abuse rather than a murderer gives Glaspell a stage which shows her audience the power of empathy.
Blanche Dubios and Willy Loman were both delusional characters whose delusions, and therefore their own “sanity”, relied on the enabling and support of the delusions by the other characters, and once that support was lost, so too were the delusional characters.
This was made more apparent by the way Stevenson used diction. She had many examples of diction that strengthened her resolve greatly. Take for example when she says, “She and her boy friend, after a short season of gaiety, a year or two or more, vanished
Frances calling the Stevensons shows her attitude which is passivity and lack of idealism to confront the relationship with his husband. She is going to call the Stevensons because, she and her husband have nothing more to discuss about.
She was also mean and rude, which can easily be seen as she got angry and protested when Walter poured syrup all over his dinner. 32. The nlnlnlnlnlnlnlnlnlnlnlnlnlnl As she was young, she was also not able to look at things from other people's perspective. This could easily be seen in her first day of school, as she only saw things from her point of view, never caring about her teacher's perspective (pg. 26.
How Mrs. Mallard reacted to her husband’s death can be directly linked to these stereotypes and d...
Throughout the narrative, the text utilizes the conflict over the crisis of cognition, or the very mystery regarding the Marquise’s lack of knowledge surrounding her mysterious pregnancy, as a catalyst for the presentation of the plurality of opinions associated with the Marquise’s current status in society and presumptions to the father’s identity. In itself, this state of cognitive dissonance prevents the Marquise from making any attempts at atoning for her supposed sin, as she herself is unaware of any possible transgressions responsible for her current predicament. In turn, this separation from the truth pushes the marquise to fall into the conviction that the “incomprehensible change[s] in her figure” and “inner sensations” (85) she felt were due to the god of Fantasy or Morpheus or even “one of his attendant dreams,” (74) thereby relinquishing her subconscious from any guilt. However, despite her self-assurance of innocence and desperate pleas at expressing her clear conscience, the marquise becomes subject to external pressures from both her family and society, who come to perc...
Beatty’s speech explains why Mildred acts the way she does, which had started to become a mystery for Montag, She acts in ways that are robotic, or self-centered, or unfeeling. Beatty’s speech explains the reason
Mrs. Stevenson is angry at the start. After listening to the phone call, Mrs. Stevenson was desperate to recall the number. As she called operator 1, she gets angry, yelling at the operator “ you didn’t try to get that wrong number at all. All I asked explicitly and all you did was dial correctly”(114). With her being angry she is snapping at the operator while trying to find the men on the phone. Her anger ties into her demanding trate in the book.The first part of the note “ “ you didn’t try to get that wrong number at all”(114) is her getting frustrated followed by “ All I asked for explicitly and all you did was dial correctly”(114) shows how angry she got at the fact that she dialed the number correctly but still got the wrong number demanding her to redial it.
In a play, the audience should be intrigued and ready for what is to come next. It is a play that works by understanding. It has the audience on their seat to make them be part of the play. Susan Glaspell wrote a play based on an actual murder. “In the process of completing research for a biography of Susan Glaspell, [she] discovered the historical source upon which Trifles ...Glaspell covered the case and the subsequent trial when she was a reporter for the Des Moines Daily News”(Ben-Zvi 143). In the early nineteen-hundreds women were seen as weak. They were females knew the understanding of every clue that was leading to the case and the reasoning behind it.
In her short story “Miss Brill,” Katherine Mansfield investigates a case of perception versus reality in which Miss Brill’s imagination distorts her outlook on the world. Miss Brill, an elderly, isolated, and naïve woman, finds entertainment in observing the lives of others. She imagines herself and the people around her as part of a great theatrical play, each with a specific role. However, she becomes so caught up with her whimsical view on life that the wave of reality demoralizes her. Through Miss Brill’s perspective, Mansfield demonstrates the effects isolationism has on the mind and the misconceptions of an imagination that results from such solitude.
In conducting preliminary research for the final paper, I uncovered several sources that spoke to three intertwined and mutually-interacting themes that stood out to me as I read Mrs. Dalloway: namely, Woolf’s interpretive representations of mental illness, subjectivity, and existential tension in the novel.