Indeed, throughout the nineteenth century, women were encouraged to aspire to marriage. In The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits, Sarah Stickney Ellis, a best-selling author, maintained that women were "clothed in moral beauty," which was best applied to raising vir...

"Ironies in Trifles" "Trifles is a very interesting play to read. There are many symbols in the play, written by Susan Glaspell. Four particular ones come to mind when I think of "Trifles". The overall play was about a woman driven to kill her husband. One of the...