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The word trifles generally refer to the items of little or no importance.
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The word trifles generally refer to the items of little or no importance. In the play, ‘Trifles’ Glaspell uses a lot of clues to which are known by the women alone while the men despise them regarding them as being of no importance. The plot takes place in the kitchen, and this is where all the trifles are, but the men spend their time in searching upstairs finding more substantial clues that are unavailable. In the play, the most significant trifles include, the quilt with elastic stitching, the bird cage as well as the dead canary in a pretty little box.
The trifles can alter and advance the plot of the play as in most of the fictional mystery plays, the plot is always endocentric and features an actively analytical male hero who discovers the identity of the murder through searching for the evidence and reasons his way through the crime. For example, Holmes is generally dispassionate in his pursuit of the murderers all over the scenes and bests the police at their jobs. Unlike the male detectives, the women in the play trifles avoid the ruthless search for the information to which would lead to the apprehension of the perpetrator. The women achieve their solution by the seemingly accidental observation of the kitchen to where they identify all the traces of murder that is ironical to the males. They develop the desire to protect rather than condemn the murderer. The continued use of the rifles in the play keep the play ongoing and as well point out to the ignorance of the male detectives in their work in search of evidence. The trifles have also been used to indicate the role of the females in the society and their position in regard to men and therefore stressing the theme of feminism.
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Glaspell, S. (2010). Trifles. Baker’s Plays.
The women’s right to vote for an election
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The women’s right to vote for an election was illegal in the late 1800 but has become a common practice in the today’s world. During that times, women could find them imprisoned and fined for participating in the voting process arousing the question as to whether it is illegal for the women to vote. Susan B. Anthony was among the women who had been imprisoned and fined for participating in voting for the 1872 presidential election, and it is after her release that she gave her speech. From her speech, there are several strengths and weakness both internal and external that contributed to the success and difficulties that mat the struggle for the suffrage movement difficult.
The internal strengths of the suffragettes can be deduced from the permeable of the constitution that can be traced from paragraph two. The permeable states that “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the union.” From this phrase, the constitution provides a strong foundation for equality between the men and women as it does not indicate specifically males alone but the people of the United States. Another point that can be deduced from the second paragraph is that the constitution refers to the people and not males or females, by this, women also are persons and can be counted as eligible citizens with the right to vote as well. Both men and women are equal and should be treated in equity especially in the face of democracy. Another strength is that the constitution formed a government that does not confer the blessings of liberty but is intended to secure the benefits of freedom for them, again them referring to both men and women. Therefore, it is a clear indication that the women must also be granted their rights especially that of voting so that they can exercise them like the other citizens to protect and defend the blessings of liberty within the democratic government.
Despite the strengths, there are internal weaknesses as well that made the struggle for the voting rights for the women difficult. Some of the internal weaknesses include the lack of support from the other women. Some of the women cited that there was no need for the women to be granted the rights to vote in the sense that not all men were eligible for voting. Again, gender discrimination can also be said to be an internal weakness that made the women get denied of their voting rights. Women were restricted from voting because they could not represent the country in the army, implying that they couldn’t fight for their country and therefore there was no need for them being granted the voting rights.
There exist external factors that made the struggle for the suffrage movement difficult. The weak judicial system can be termed as one of the external factors that barred the women from voting. Several women including Anthony was arrested and charged for the crime of voting in the presidential election whereas there were no specifications that only males were eligible for voting. Oligarchy is another external factor hindering the rights of women as the powers of the United States could be termed as being concentrated in the hands of a few members of the society. Some of the oligarchies as described in her speech include income, race and the level of education and to which the whites, wealthy and the educated exert control over the society and undermine the rest of the society. Sex oligarchy can also be termed to be an external factor whereby the males dominate in power ruling the females, making the women oppressed all through the society. Taxation without representation is another factor; women are subjected to taxation and yet they are not provided with the right to vote, and this pushes them to the corner as they have no freedom to express themselves through the ballot even after being in a democratic nation.
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Susan B. Anthony (1873). “IS IT A CRIME FOR A U.S. CITIZEN TO VOTE?” Retrieved from: http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/anthony-is-it-a-crime-speech-text/
The claims that entertainment has the capacity of ruining the society
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The claims that entertainment has the capacity of ruining the society is often indicative of the weak grasp of the people who critique entertainment possess the society’s primary fundamentals. Entertainment is only able of demolishing the society’s structure if its audiences’ foundations tend to lose such that they would fear its destruction on a piece of literature, film or the countless other forms of audience satisfaction. It is obvious that entertainment holds insurmountable weight in the society, but it does not possess the capacity to ruin it or cause its downfall but does, however, have the ability to change the society due to the varying definitions of the word ‘ruin.’
The entertainment is capable of introducing dramatic change, and there are some of the people who tend to view even the most straightforward changes to the society as it ruins such as the 19th-century aristocrats. Wealthy men and women were abundant in the 19th century, but wealth couldn’t equate power, thus eliminating the wealthy women from the social hierarchy and giving an advantage to the wealthy white men. When the women became more prominent in the field of entertainment, it began threatening the domination of men in the western culture. The authors Flannery O’Connor among others paved the way for the females’ entertainment, and in the public view, they slowly stimulated the changing perspective of women in the society. Women in the prominent roles outside of the homes are more common in the settings of the 21st century but too many is regarded as the definition of ruining the society.
During the 20th century after the times of Mozart and the classical period, going to the ballet and opera was past time, and that majority of the wealthy and no-wealthy individuals enjoyed. In the year 1913, a dance and a music piece regarded as the rite of spring was introduced in Paris, to which is one of the controversial pieces of music to date. The music featured rhythms along with visuals to which no other of the musicians and composers had attempted. The thrilling ballet was a shock to many audiences as they had been used to the light and playful tone of the past century’s most famous Mozart. After the first minute of the piece, people had started leaving the theatre, by the middle people literary rioting in the streets. The ballet featured the aspects to which today are widely popular and considered classic, despite the widespread belief of the time that an opera that horrific and nonsensical would ruin the society through the weakening of the fundamental moral values of the audiences.
Socrates was a pillar of the society in the ancient Rome, challenging normality with his writings on philosophy and mathematics. In the present days, Socrates is looked upon as one of the greatest minds the race of humanity can offer, regarded as one of the fathers of philosophy, intellectualism and thought. It is unfortunate that Socrates was stoned to death in 399 BCE for corrupting the youths and ruining the society’s culture. The community would and can only be destroyed as long as the individuals in the society allow it to get ruined, and thus so far there has been no definition for a ruined society, but only change for the better or worse as humans tend to move forward and never back.
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Neal, G. (1998). Life: The Movie, How Entertainment Conquered Reality.