WRITTEN ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES

SUSAN GLASPELL 'S TRIFLES

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SUSAN GLASPELL 'S TRIFLES

It was said that the settings for the plays generates certain impact for the audience or reader . It usually brings out the necessary highlights that are needed to be brought up . The issues or conflicts in the play could easily be identified given a good setting for a play . The ambiance or the mood of the play could establish the right

reactions from the audience or readers . In this particular essay , the play that is about to be scrutinized is the one that was written by Susan Glaspell . `Trifles was written on the year 1916 . It is highly essential to note this particular year given that the issue that would be raised in this concerns the setting of the play . But what is a setting ? It could be seen that the setting , concerning a play , means that it is the time place , and circumstances in which a narrative , drama , or film takes place "Settings ' or it is The context and environment in which a situation is set the background "Settings ' I firmly assert then that the setting of a play could reflect the meaning of the play . The setting put up by Glaspell in `Trifles ' then would be a good indication for the interpretation that a reader or audience might have . The setting could bring out the meaning for the plays due to two things . Firstly , it could generate the basic information to create the basic interpretation of the play . It would seem that the setting in the said play could bring out the feministic issues of the author or writer . The setting also brought about the moralistic issue that the author or writer had left for the speculation of the audience or reader . Lastly , the concurrence is also due to the reason that the setting provides the aesthetic and symbolic outlook to further assert the meaning and the interpretation that could be found in the play

How would a setting affects the entirety of the play depends on how the audience or reader would view the play itself . Interpretations of the play then are a necessary action that could generate the meaning of the play . In this sense , the setting could then provide a tableau for the basic interpretations that the audience or reader would have . It becomes very basic since it could provide a hint on the gravity of the issues or conflict that might occur . It could be inferred then that the basic conflict that could be found in the play is the dichotomy between the male and female sexes . The year 1916 may not be the year for the height of feministic ideals but the play had created a certain hint on the views of women in Glaspell 's time . The timeframe of the play was one where the male species dominate the scene of society

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