American plays

Around the time 1775-1783 women were a big help in the American Revolution. In the American Revolution women were a big help to the soldiers and the colonist. They were a big help because they did things you wouldn’t expect them to do. Things such as spying, cooking, cleaning, taking care of their families, and being soldiers. To them that was a lot of work because when they worked on their houses and farms it would usually take them sun up to sun down to finish just that one job. My paper is…

African americans never really had a perfect opportunity to become successful as the American Dream. They always had to fight to obtain respect. The American Dream can be described as cold and life changing. It represents that you've either achieve nothing or achieved becoming something you always wanted. I believe that the american dream is possible for anyone that has a lot of determination because people stop because of obstacles. The “American Dream” has to do with people's materialistic…

Andes. Tribes of Native Americans spread across the land, depending on nature for food and shelter. In California, the mild climate meant that tribes there had plenty to eat, unlike the extremely dry Great Basin where food and water was scarce. Native Americans loved, decorated ceremonial costumes, but had simple everyday clothes. They dressed to suit the weather. For females, after puberty, girls joined the women in the tribe. Whereas boys had to pass…

Truth Trifles: a story of opposition, murder, and controversy. Susan Glaspell, writer of Trifles, gave society one of the first feminist stories in American history. Her story was risky in the 1900’s, but it gives us a lot of important information about that time now. For the first time, it makes the women look more intelligent than the men. The play begins when Mr. Wright is strangled to death in his own home. The sheriff, Mr. Hale, and the court attorney all search for clues on to convict Mr.…

Feminism in Trifles Trifles may be about two women keeping the truth behind a murder a secret, but feminism is also slipped into the play, and plays a key role within the performance. Feminism in Trifles was radical; it was very clear from both the performance watched in class, as well as script. This makes sense because the play is set in the late 19th century, and it was typical for women to be treated so discourteously. Glaspell showed her view of feminism through the way two women acted…

against Mrs. Wright. In Tannen’s “Sex, Lies and Conversations” and in Glaspell’s Trifles, two cross-cultural gender-related differences are style of conversation and expectations. In “Sex, Lies and Conversations” Tannen explains “Boys and girls tend to play with children of their own gender, and their sex-separate groups have different organizational structures and interactive norms”…

American Dream Plays Hard to Get “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’,” John Lennon. Happiness is what everyone wants; it is the genuine American Dream. However, the various definitions of happiness make it unclear as to how to pursue it. Some people see it as reaching the top and having the most sumptuous items, others as having more than enough money…

The definition of the word, Trifle, means, “something that does not have much value or importance”. This play was written during the time when women were considered their husband 's property. During the early history of the United States, a man essentially owned his wife and children and all other belongings. Americans have treated married women based on the concept of coverture, a concept that was brought from the English common law. Under the doctrine of the coverture, a woman was legally…

romances" (9). The true aim of the main character is to experience "a parent's love and hope" that Biff, his oldest son will be able to supersede his limited success in career (Sterling 93). However, Harold Bloom says that Miller's play makes a joke of the "American dream" because Willy Loman…

The play, The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Williams, the main characters in this play were Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, and Tom Wingfield. The play was about a memory of Tom. Tom’s father left him and his family years ago, and he had to work in a shore warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura. Unlike the other main characters, Tom stood out and he should be considered as the main character because he was the narrator and the play seemed to revolve around him.…