english homework

In the short story “The Sensible Things,” by F.Scott Fitzgerald where we have the statement said by Mrs. Cary telling Jonquil that she can do away with the relationship she had with George, who seemed reluctant to marry her. This statement was in response to the chaos that existed between George and Jonquil's relationship.

In the work of Althea Black entitled, “I Knew You’d Be Lovely,’’ is when she paused the question, “Isn’t life just one big, long emergency, happening very, very slowly?” in response to what life was all about. She posed this quote to expand the understanding of human beings to incorporate all the dimensions of life instead of just having the meaning of life and its ends there.

On the same work “I Knew You’d Be Lovely,” by Alethea Black on his quotes highlighted the statement “When you correct others don’t humiliate them. Show them new tenderness; then they will humble themselves” to harmonize the problems that were emanating in the hospitals and the maintenance of good relationships between people as they interact. This came as a concern for people to have care for their subjects as seen in the way Sonya used to treat her patients that seemed she was against them, but, in reality, she wasn’t only she was trying to correct them.

The short story entitled “Too Much Happiness” by Alice Munro, the author posses the quote from this awesome story that says, “You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.” He tries to explain there are things we engage in which result from consequences which are permanent upon somebody’s life. Decisions are too crucial in life; whatever you came up with determines the future life of a person.

Denny Zen posted this quote on his blog in one of his works that we are not supposed to focus on whatever we are doing that there are things we can manage by doing by ourselves. He goes on explaining that he has to keep his affection by himself and keeps going with life. He poses a challenge to people to be self-reliant in performing their daily duties and responsibilities.

In “The Story of an Hour” what is “The joy that kills” by Chopin, who seemed ironic that Louise Mallard felt liberated by the information she received that her husband is alive. She was to rejoice that freedom without the husband. After getting the information, she was overwhelmed by the joy that the doctors reported she died out of the joy of her husband being alive. The doctors claimed that Louise’s death was as a result of sudden grief of her and another joy that followed simultaneously that caused her heart to stop working.

PART 2

Question 1

Irony refers to the opposite of what we expect in a story, play, etc. This play all resolve around the unseen Mrs. Wright, who is held captive due to the murder she was involved with her husband. The people in power who are men have come to search for evidence against Minnie Wright. Women have organized themselves to come and take something for Mrs. Wright, who is in jail. Trifles emanates in various ways such that in the play men speaks what they consider as hard work for the woman in the farms.

Hale in his speech points out the irony of women not able to perform the activities of the farm. Also says that for any activity the woman does is to keep up with the farm which is not significance. These evoked the feelings of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters to a point they are looking at what Mrs. Wight is doing and considers it insults to these women. He sees trifles; the women being the substance of their lives.

On the same issue, Hale is seen representing that male dominated society where their deeds of women are seen as unimportant. Women in their daily activity are feeling humiliated to work so hard in accomplishing what men have taken for granted. Women are tirelessly working towards disapproving the men in their limited thinking about the work women can perform.

The two women are symbolizing all housewives who struggle to keep up their daily activities as per the demands that are long and exhausting. When the County Attorney involves himself in the washing of jelly from his hands, critiques the dirt on the towel. Mrs. Hale defends the Minnie’s housekeeping against the criticism. She elaborate hoe it is hard to clean towels with jelly and cleaning the house in general. Men their work is just to make the towels dirty without considering that there is hard work when it comes to washing it. Mr. Hale considers their women as labors for men which discriminates the women from the men. This attitude of Mr. Hale hurts the women the most.

This attitude showed the high level of discrimination about John who his wife had no children, and thus he felt antisocial and selfish but in the statement made he is referred to have been transformed by these deeds.

The birdcage was seen as being mauled by the women; the bird is dead when it is wrapped in the Minnie’s sewing box. The husband to the woman was brutal to Minnie, but the women tried to save her from the situation by keeping the evidence of the dead bird from the men to protect Minnie.

There is an occurrence of trifles where men would like to brush aside whatever the women are doing. Men see the bird as being important than the life of a human being. The bird was trifle to men but to greater extent very important to Minnie’s life. As we see the in the text, this attitude of men always hurt women as they are trying to partake any activity in their daily life. Men should be conscious of how they are treating women while performing their duties and responsibilities.

Also, on the same, women may be seen trifle as for the case of John who was cruel to his wife despite the fact Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, who were seriously trying to protect Minnie from men, but men could be in a position to notice how these women were pleading with him. The issue was that men were seen to be rigid in their thinking and did not want to incorporate other peoples’ feelings.

Question 2

Symbolism is the act of assigning one item to represent another thing in another setting. As seen in the play the ‘Susan Glaspell’s Trifles’ We come across a bird being used in various settings to represent various emotions and activities as follows, for instance, we come into contact with a bird representing joy.

On the matter, we find that Mr. Wright killed the bird which was the only companion to Mrs. Wright had. Mr. Wright on the same way the bird was killed was he killed by Mrs. Wright. This shows that the bird was everything to Mrs. Wright as seen in the extend she went in her actions of sacrificing the life of a human being at the expense of the bird. This leads Mrs. Wright ending up in jail.

Also, the bird represented the communication and lack thereof of something as we see in the case of Mrs. Wright who was accused of murdering her husband when the authorities were coming to gather information about her case; two neighboring women are also gathering some items to take to Mrs. Wright in the jail. This seemed as irony towards the authorities to the authorities because this woman was a suspect in the first place but due to the concern of her neighbors they armed themselves to take something for her in jail.

On the same situation, the issue of the bird adds a lot of irony in the sense that when the women are searching for the things to take to the woman, they come across an empty bird cage, stuffed into a cupboard. This seemed absurd for the women until they looked at Mrs. Wright sewing box. The accused was planning to bury the dead canary secretly in a small box without the discovery of any one.

The bird also symbolized joy. Mrs. Wright had no child, therefore, was expected to provide her joy, to change her attitudes of loneliness. This could have given her hope of continuing living such cruel, uncaring and uncommunicative husband. The killing of bird deprived her full joy she had in the house. This was acted as a shock to her only to notice that her only hope is being killed that aroused her feeling of also having her husband dead.

The bird also symbolized Mrs. Wright herself and bird cage being her marriage to Mr. Wright. These two couples were always in disagreement and their house full of chaos to the extent that when Mrs. Wright killed the husband, he felt like having the freedom she was deprived of. He did this with an intension to be granted that freedom she was longing for all that they have been in marriage only to find her in jail despite the freedom she was up to. The two objects show to us the repression she had.

Question 3

Christmas tree is symbolic in many instances as we are going to view on the following occasions. The first one is that the tree itself was symbolic when it brings to mind all that it’s Christmas.

The tree seems to mimic Nora’s psychological state. As we see at the beginning of the second Act, we come across Nora, who is alone in the house feeling uneasy. Nora is finding herself in a mess, and so the tree is there also when she is informed of the bad news she finds herself in disturbed sympathizing with the tree in her midst. Her mind was as disheveled as the poor tree.

Also, the tree could represent Nora’s disintegrating web of lies. The pretty decorations that Nora used to cover up her things were falling apart and what was true was trying emanating. This seemed to play a very big role in her life. When the truth was to emerge this would put in a trap.

The tree also symbolized the pretty households of Nora. She is used to decorations and having ornaments. She used to dress up the tree just as Torvald dresses up her for the Stenberg’s’ party. She tells the maid not to allow the children to see the tree before it is decorated. This shows how much a lady is she cares for decorations.

To sum up, we find Nora in her activities involving the tree in all whatever she is doing. This is well elaborated above in the activities she finds herself being involved in.