`A jury of her peers` by Susan Glaspell

A Jury of Her Peers ' by Susan Glaspell

CHARACTER : Mrs . Martha Hale

I , Mrs . Martha Hale , have proven that I could learn from others ' or own mistake . I have also realized the importance of doing something to solve a problem even if it appears too late , useless or helpless . I have evolved from a typical character of a woman in the early times - quiet follower , tolerant , and submissive but I eventually took the initiative to stand for my rights as a woman . I learned that women should do something to prevent men

from practicing social injustices and domestic violence by being courageous to promote change in the civil and political systems without aggression

At first , I acted as if I respect or I am in favor of the law when I said , What was the real crime here ? Who 's going to punish that (1233 in Fisher Silber , 2003 ,

. 291 . I wanted to investigate and let the law take charge of the appropriate actions to the one who killed Mr Wright . However , my true nature is different from how I reacted with the incident . In fact , I was concerned with Minnie Foster Wright . I expressed regret because the incident should not have happened if I visited Mrs . Wright . In addition , I suggested that she would be given the chance to quilt to pass the time while she is in jail . I realized that that Mrs . Wright was being maltreated by her husband and that Mrs Wright would die for lack of life (Glaspell , 1946 ,

. 80 ) if I didn 't do anything to help her . Therefore , I decided to take the initiative and intervene (Angel , 1996 ) to mend our friendship . I also showed that I didn 't want any of my friends , like Minnie , to suffer again from the hands of the abusive men (Bigsby , 1982 Shafer Lang 1997 . I and Mrs . Peters have come to protect Mrs . Wright by intentionally pulling the quilt stitching to be able to hide the dead canary . We did this because we wanted to eliminate the crucial signs of Mrs . Wright 's motive in killing her husband . As a result , the men in the jail have been unable understand what is happening and they interpret it as women 's trifles ' about quilting . The law enforcers then admit that Mrs . Wright is not guilty of murder because of the absence of evidence What I did was a good example of an attempt to change or improve the legal policies or the law that do not give regard and importance to women . I declared knot it ' to imply about the reconstruction of the criminal justice system that undermines the female population (Yoshino 2005 . I learned that the real crime a person could commit is to refuse to understand or ignore the truth and to neglect others through communication . I helped Minnie because I knew that she suffered physically and emotionally from Mr . Wright . I also believe that killing her husband , which seems to be an...