Hamlet
Hamlet once stated, "Frailty, thy name is woman"(qtd. in Starr 225). An idea that women are weak is not a new idea to society; it is one that has been examined and documented by sociologist all over the world. Sociologists have studied the idea that men control society and women are submissive to men. This form of social organization in which males dominate females is known as a patriarchy (Macionis 358). Patriarchy literally means "the rule of fathers" (Macionis 358). Historically, a patriarchy has rested upon a belief in the innate superiority of males who, therefore, legitimately dominate females (Macionis 358). In today's society, this belief is also known as sexism. Sexism, defined as the belief that one sex is innately superior to the other (Macionis 358), plays a large role in the actions of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters in Susan Glaspell's Trifles. In Trifles, the women show their motivation to prove Mrs. Wright innocent, through actions and words in response to th!e attitude of sexism displayed by the men toward them. The idea of women being inferior to men only produces a theme for the play and shows how many different conflicts drive the plot. In the play "trifle
"From their entrance, the women stand apart from the men, clustered at the stove. s, by Susan glaspell, we watch as the central characters struggle to resolve a conflict between compassion and the strict requirements of the law. In response, the sheriff, who hears this conversation and feels it is absurd given the fact that they are all at the sight of a murder, replies, "They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it!" (Glaspell 931). Peters find a partly finished quilt done by Mrs. Through the metaphor of the bird's song as the voice of the soul, the women acknowledge that John Wright not only killed Minnie's canary, but her spirit too. When the County Attorney displays his displeasure with the hand towels in the Wright house; Mrs. The actions, the women take in defining both the men and the law, are a reaction to the men's statements to each other and to the women illustrating the men's dominating ideas. " Studies in Short Fiction 21 Ben-Zvi, Linda. The actions of the women while at the Wright house show the dominance of the men in their society, and how women are not treated as equals just because of there gender.
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