"A Dolls House" and "Trifles" a comparison of the two plays.
...ter because if her husband was to find out he wouldn’t be able to accept this and in fact it would cause great pain to the family. As he reads the letter he becomes very outraged and tells Nora that she is a hypocrite and a liar and complains that she has ruined his happiness and further more will not be allowed to raise their children. As he does so the maid brings in another letter from Krogstad returning her contract with the forged signature and all. You are able to see how quickly he forgives and takes back what he has just said but Nora is not able to accept that. She says that despite the eight years of their marriage, they still haven’t been able to understand one another. Nora asserts that her husband has treated her like a “doll” to be played with and admired. In many ways through these acts you are able to see that in this marriage the husband is the head of the household and anything that goes against his wishes is both forbidden as well as not accepted. You are also made aware that at the end of this play Nora has become very outraged with the situations going on and will not stand to take them any more. In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell you are able to see how Minnie Foster Wright is isolated in rural America. In this play you are given an eyes view of how women are thought to be of a lower class. Mrs. Wright’s husband was found murdered and because she was the only one there she became the prime suspect. Even though there was no evidence to prove that she had killed him. She will still suspected of the murdered. Throughout the play you are shown that as the women come up with key evidence they quickly get pushed to the side and not heard until a man has made the same discovery. Through out the play you are shown how they have no children, they live on a farm and must do all the work themselves. You are given the impressions that Mr. Wright is a very stern and maybe even mean to his wife. You are shown how her husband has killed her bird (by strangulation of a rope). You are then shown that due to the levels of isolation Mrs. Wright then proceeds to murder her husband in the same fashion that he has murdered her bird. In many ways you can see that through out the marriage her husband has isolated her from the world and it has finally gotten to her. Both of these plays are set in the early 1900’s which was a time in which woman were thought to be of a lower class. Women at this time were often thought to less then the men in many ways women were inferior to their husbands. In Both plays you are able to see the dominating role is played by the husband and that the wives really aren’t given many rights or privileges. In many wa...