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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” and Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles.” No additional sources cited.
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focus or another. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" the focus is on a woman who learns she is not content or fulfilled in being nothing but a silent
wife and mother and ultimately leaves her husband in an era when such realities were rare. In Susan Glaspells short story Trifles the story illustrates how it is the women
who understand realities enough to have solved a murder, a murder they will not explain to the men for it occurred because women are oppressed in a mans world. The
following paper compares and contrasts the two stories. Ibsen and Glaspell As noted form the introduction, both stories illustrate the condition of women in a mans world. In
Ibsens story the focus of the entire story is the development of this particular woman, Nora, as she realizes she cannot be happy in her simple role as a wife
and a mother. Her husband has no idea what she is talking about in relationship to seeking her identity as an individual and so she leaves him with the children.
In Glaspells story the women are victims of a mans world and as two men wander through a house seeking the cause of the death of a man they
overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces together, seeing that the woman likely killed her husband
because he abused her somehow and she could take no more. They do not tell the men for they do not want her to get in trouble for a reality
they fully comprehend. They know they are oppressed in a mans world and they could not ultimately blame her for killing her husband. As can be seen both stories
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