Trifles by Susan Glaspell– Women in the Shadow of Guys
Established laws are a means to protect justice. However, it is against justice if it serves the interests of some group and disregards the rights of others. It is natural, if people refuse to comply with such sort of law. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters in Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles,” protested such a law. In the play, Mrs. Minnie Wright murdered her husband. In the very first place, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters were with a team that was to examine the reason for the murder one day after the occurrence in the abandoned farmhouse.
Where they were in the cooking area of the farmhouse, the two ladies have actually got an evidence- the dead canary that might inform more about the cause of the murder. Nevertheless, they deliberately hid it from the law. That is why they were tried. I am here as a juror to decide whether these ladies need to be penalized or not. Ladies and gentlemen! Regarding me, as one of the jurors, the two females should not be punished. Due To The Fact That, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters did refrain from doing any criminal offense other than revealing their objection to the injustices and inequality of gender that kept a ladies in the shadow of males in all locations of life consisting of the law.
Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters were together in the kitchen of your home. They were discussing the way in which the house was kept. As we can see in the play, the ladies were checking small things. They were speaking to each other about life from their experience. They were trying to examine what Mrs. Minnie Wright looks like after she was wed to Mr. Wright. They were attempting to examine the genuine cause that led Mrs. Wright to kill her hubby. The three guys (two police and a neighbor) were wandering occasionally searching for physical evidence that can lead to the reason for the murder.
They were teasing at the women when the females were speaking to each other. The county attorney said, “Ladies were used to fretting over trifles.” As to the men, women are just after things of little importance or worth. They might not be able to focus on the big photo of life. These guys mishandled. They were roaming occasionally for nothing. Their focus is simply the noticeable. They are not investigating the abstract in which most crimes are most likely hidden. It was not unidentified to Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters that murder is a criminal activity. They had actually known very well that a murderer needed to be punished.
What made them sympathize with Mrs. Minnie Wright, nevertheless, was that there might be no true justice. Not just the law, but likewise the custom in those days protested the right of women. Nobody was finding out the real reason for the murder. The police and the judiciary were just to protect the custom-made and the law. As Mrs. Hale told Mrs. Peters in the play that, ‘the law needs to penalize the criminal offense,’ not to discover true justice. So, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters were dedicated to do what was reasonable. On the other hand, each of us understand that the social set up of the time has no credit for females more than a spouse, or a mom.
What made the ladies to hide the proof was the bias in this sort of course. In conclusion, if a law is not in the service of all humans no matter age, race, and gender it is dysfunctional. These ladies withheld the evidence not to manipulate the guideline of law. They concealed it because they hated the law of the rule, which offers men the upper hand over them. As to me, this is an irony to keep such a system in the name of trial. Reacting versus such a law that kept ladies in the shadow of men for ages is ethical obligation. So, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters need to be free.