Order 1339066: essay about a play

English 1302 Final Examination

Write on ONE of the following three topics. Your essay should be a minimum of 500 words, include quotes from the literature, and a works cited page as the LAST page of your paper.

1. Choose either Glaspell’s Trifles (1916) or Nottage’s POOF! (1993), and write an essay in which you develop and support a claim about whether justice is served in the play. Make clear how you are defining the word justice.

2. In Glaspell’s play, written in 1916, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters cover up evidence to protect Minnie Wright. Write an essay in which you discuss the conflict between loyalty to one’s sex vs. loyalty to the law.

3. Write an essay discussing how Lynn Nottage’s play POOF! (written in 1993) makes use of friendship as a theme to deal with the traumatic subject of abuse.