"Trifles": A Simple Play with a Rich Essence

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What, at first glance, may come off as a simple one-act play, is really a rich piece of work. This paper explains that, through the creative use of setting and symbols, Susan Glaspell carries out the complex themes of isolation and traditional gender views.

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"Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, is a modern play depicting the dark reality of rural life for women in America in the early twentieth century. A one act play, centered on a character that is never present on stage and carried out through a total of five playing characters, Trifles is a simple play. Despite its structural simplicity, however, the play is incredibly rich in essence. The main themes are complex ones and are reflective of the issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. To present such intricate themes in such a minimalist piece of work, Susan Glaspell creatively uses setting and symbols. These two elements will be further analyzed in pertinence to the two main themes in Trifles: isolation and traditional gender views."

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