Final Examination Instructions

Final Examination Instructions
Write on ONE of the following three topics, listed below.
• NOTE: Your essay should be a minimum of 500 words, include quotes from the
literature, and a works cited page as the LAST page of your paper.
1. Choose either Glaspell’s Trifles (1916) or Nottage’s POOF! (1993), and write an essay in
which you develop and support a claim about whether justice is served in the play. Make
clear how you are defining the word justice.
2. In Glaspell’s play Trifles, written in 1916, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters cover up evidence to
protect Minnie Wright. Write an essay in which you discuss the conflict between loyalty to
one’s sex vs. loyalty to the law.
3. Write an essay discussing how Lynn Nottage’s play POOF! (written in 1993) makes use of
friendship as a theme to deal with the traumatic subject of abuse.