DISCUSSING THE ATTITUDES IN TRIFLES

Discussing The Attitudes In Trifles

Discussing The Attitudes In Trifles

Trifles, play by Susan Glaspell, was authored in 1916, and reflects the author's preoccupation with culture-bound notions of gender and sex roles. Literary archetypes can take the form of plot structures, character types, images, settings, and themes. Many earlier writers seem unaware that they are using archetypes. Since the Romantic movement in Western literature, however, there seems to be a mix of unconscious and highly conscious use of these prototypes. (David, 1923)

Writers about women face stereotypes that are based on a tendency to oversimplify archetypal images: for example, the ...