Why do People Behave the way they do

Why do People Behave the way they do

This paper is based on Martha Hale, a character in Susan Glaspell's “A Jury of Her Peers”. As Martha wistfully says of her regret in abandoning her neighbor Minnie, “We live close together, and we live far apart. We all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of same thing!” Because the legal defense of justifiable homicide by an abused wife might not have succeeded in the early twentieth century, the women take matters into their own hands (Ozieblo, 2006).

They also retaliate against the ...