1. Shallow Hal
Women, Comedy and Change Women have been suppressed in many aspects of life. In work, in the home and in expressing themselves, women have not been allowed to fulfill their own desires. In the comedy scene, women are coming into their own only recently. Women were not allowed to express themsel...
Susan Glaspell was born in Davenport, Iowa in 1876. After graduating high school, she started writing professionally, for a local newspaper. In 1901, she began her career as a fiction writer. Her fiction works were romantic stories set in the Midwest, and she was published in several popular mag...
Whether we like it or not, we are heavily influenced by culture, its gender roles and the media. Starting at a young age, children learn how they're supposed to look and act through simple things like the toys they play with. As they grow older, they take on new influences like TV or magazines and l...
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that live in intimate association with their oppressors which can lead caged, unfulfilled lives. Trifles is a play by Susan Glaspell written in 1916. John Wright, who owned a farm, had been murdered the night before by strangulation in his bed. His w...
"Minorities vs. Power in the United States" Over the course of the semester we have read three very different books but learned about similar situations, obstacles, and struggles in "minority groups." The groups include women, African-Americans, and Native-Americans. All of these people struggle...
Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things." It is often that things deemed inessential and trivial become overlooked, getting tossed aside. "Trifles," a one-act play by Susan Glaspell, is a simple story of little...
A Wife and a Woman: A Critical essay of Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers." Stereotypes, according to The Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, are ideas about a thing or a group that may often be untrue, or only partly true. There have been examples of stereotypes throughout history and they ...
Gender is society's dictation of how an individual should act, in accordance with their sex. Shakespeare challenges the assumptions made about gender in his own society. He presents gender as a changeable trait, not necessarily corresponding to the sex of the character. Furthermore, he presents gender in a way contradictory to the conventions of his time, through the use of disguise. In Elizabethan times, women were not allowed to act on stage, and society considered them to be the weaker sex, who needed to be looked after, or 'owned' by men. ...
I was recently watching a movie titled Somethings Gotta Give staring Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Jack Nicholson plays a rich man in his sixties, Harry Sanborn, who only dates women under thirty. He starts dating Diane Keaton's character Erica Barry's daughter, Marian. When Marian brings Harry o...