Essays on Drama

The Wolves by Sarah Delappe is a contemporary slice of life play telling the story of a teenage girl soccer team dealing with life as it comes at them. It uses Aristotle’s six elements of drama to entice its audience and create a dramatic piece...

Trifles is a play that is full of different plots that will explain the events that happened to solve this mystery murder investigation. Reading this play makes one notice a certain number of events such as not being able to see Mr. and Mrs. Wright...

The Trifle gives an account of three ladies who face a noteworthy test after the demise of one of their spouses. John Wright is discovered dead in his room upstairs, and his significant other, Mrs. Wright, is suspected by the County Attorney and Sheriff for...

In Susan Glaspell’s short play Trifles, the reader is met with the ongoing case of John Wright’s murder. One moral that the play depicts is that women and men see things differently. According to the male characters, the women only care about issues that have...

Marie Shear stated, “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” There are no truer words when it comes to the story portrayed in the short drama, Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell. This play emphasizes the gender roles placed onto women and illustrates the...

The play ‘Trifles’ is an artistic representation of the fluid nature of gender roles in our continually evolving human society. Even during the times during which the play was written, the role of men and women in society was, apparently, a constant question; fodder for...

Feminism is one of the hot issues in nowadays’ society. Feminism did not appear abruptly. It had been improving little by little and began to emerge in the literature. The works of literature in the 19th century, women are still weak and dependent and shape...

A play can be analyzed in a variety of ways. One of these ways is through the plays theme. The theme more often than not can be developed through the stories plot. According to Literature: A Portable Anthology, the words plot, character, and theme mean...

Gender inequality is the acknowledgement that women and men are not equal, and that gender affects an individual’s living experience. Of this inequality, nine out of ten times it is the males that are oppressing their dominance over females; quartering their rights into non-existent capsules...

The play Trifles is a Glaspell’s masterpiece that based on a real incident occurred at Iowa in the nineteenth century. The play starts on the scene of an abandoned farmhouse. Five people arrive at the house, Sheriff Henry Peters, local attorney George Henderson, and neighbour...