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As literature serves many functions, it can accelerate understanding in society. Moreover, character and characterization as the intrinsic elements hold a very crucial part to build tolerance in the society. Through several characteristics of character and characterization, we get knowledge that others need to be understood. This is what the students of English Literature in prose course learn. By reading Susan Glaspell's Trifles, they know how to characterize others. They also learn not to be easy to judge people through the discussion after reading the drama. Hence, this paper tries to figure out how character and characterization can create better understanding by using Trifles written by Susan Glaspell.
This essay uses theories of narrative to examine how Susan Glaspell's Trifles and Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations reflect and resist the ability of narratives to construct identities, create moral meanings, and impose truths. It also explores the dramatisation of experiential knowledge as a means of building communities. Blood Relations' meta-theatrical self-consciousness, resistance to moral meaning through a refusal of narrative closure, and ambivalence towards the representative nature of personal experiences, in contrast to Trifles' naturalism, narrative conclusion, and confidence in the assumption of shared women's experiences reflect changes in feminisms, theoretical understandings of experiential knowledge, and strategies for the stage representation of women. L'essai fait appel aux théories de la narration pour examiner comment Trifles (Susan Glaspell) et Blood Relations (Sharon Pollock) correspondent aux capacités de la narration et y résistent à la fois en vue de construire des identités, créer des sens moraux et imposer des vérités. Il examine également la dramatisation de la connaissance expérientielle comme moyen de construction des communautés. La conscience de soi méta théâtrale faisant partie de Blood Relations, la résistance à la signification morale par le refus d'une fermeture sur le plan narratif et l'ambivalence à l'égard de l'aspect représentatif des expériences personnelles contrastent avec le naturalisme que propose Trifles, sa conclusion narrative et la confiance en la supposition voulant que les expériences partagées par les femmes correspondent aux changements du féminisme, aux compréhensions théoriques de la connaissance expérientielle et aux stratégies de représentation sur scène de la femme.
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This paper is a feminist approach to Susan Glaspell's Trifles. It handles the marital discordance which results in misanthropy. Mrs. Wright in this play is a woman who falls victim to the suppression and marginalization of her husband, Mr. Wright. The hard-hearted husband destroys her human feelings out of neglect, a matter that ends in killing her husband. The subject is presented from a purely feminine perspective in that Mrs. Wright's character is fully revealed through the female characters' reactions. In fact, Trifles creates the impression that Glaspell is in full advocacy of women's right to reach self-fulfillment away from any form of social dictations. Matrimonial relationships must be compatible in order to enjoy a rather entertaining and continuous repose of mind.
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