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trifles
Title: trifles
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 668 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
trifles
Are we Living in a Chauvinist Male Society?
Gender roles are attitudes that a society links to each sex. They are basically prejudicial descriptions of who men and women are. In today’s society, men and women are divided into two stereotypical gender-roles; the feminine code and the masculine code. Men have been described as being insensitive, dominant, strong, rational, aggressive and rude, whereas women have been described as sensitive, weak, emotional, talkative, passive and …showed first 75 words of 668 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 668 total…base their thoughts on obnoxious descriptions, then they too would have found clues.
By the way women are depicted in this story through the actions of various characters and the dialogue, Glaspell states that one should not judge people based on their gender. Gender is but a construct, and it is not innate. In writing this play, Glaspell changes the concept of gender-role stereotypes to show that women should be rebellious against a male-dominated society.
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