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Task 2

 * Part 1:** Before you start your essays, discuss the following questions in your groups and write the first part of a “Letter of Intentions”.


 * a)** Explain briefly the chosen topic.
 * b)** What’s the purpose of the essay?
 * c)** Who is it intended for?
 * d)** What effects do you want it to have on your readers?
 * e)** What have you read on this specific topic? Are there any authors or key concepts that you would like to use in your critical writing?


 * || Final Version:

Dear Reader,

In our essay we would like to present and analyze the short story “A Jury of her Peers” written by Susan Glaspell, which can be described as an example of early feminist literature, as two female characters are able to solve a mystery of a criminal case, that the male characters are not able to, because of their lack of ability to understand and interpret the women´s behavior. The author originally wrote the story as a one-act play called “Trifles” for the Provincetown Players in 1916. Therefore, we are going to divide our essay into parts with different topics. First of all, we would like to inform our readers about the author and the specific characteristics of a short story. In the second part of our essay we would like to focus on the historical context, the storyline and the way how gender roles are presented, discussing different opinions on this topic and comparing them to the ones existing in our days. Do we still have to deal with this topic today? How do the gender roles now look like? Have we reached equality of men and women yet? All these are questions we are going to analyze and discuss in the course of the main part of our essay. Another important topic of this short story and part of our essay could be the fact, that the two women hide evidences from the investigating officers to save the farmer´s wife, who stands under the cloud that she killed her husband, from punishment. The main and also very paradoxical question in this part would be: Who is really being taken as the victim, the murdered husband or his wife as the murder? In order to find the answers to these questions we are going to use additional literature about the historical background, the gender roles and the already published essays about these mentioned topics.

The Merchants || Dear reader,

In our essay we would like to present and analyze the short story “A Jury of her Peers” written by Susan Glaspell which can be described as an example of early feminist literature, as two female characters are able to solve a mystery of a criminal case, that the male characters are not able to, because of their lack of ability to understand and interpret the woman´s behavior. The author originally wrote the story as a one-act play called “Trifles” for the Provincetown Players in 1916. Therefore, we are going to divide our essay into parts with different topics. First of all, we would like to inform our readers a little bit about the author and the specific characteristics of a short story. In the second part of our essay we would like to focus on the historical context, the storyline and the way how gender roles are presented, discussing different opinions on this topic and comparing them to the ones existing in our days. Do we still have to deal with this topic today? How do the gender roles now look like? Have we reached equality of men and woman yet? All these are questions we are going to analyze and discuss in the course of the main part of our essay. Another important topic of this short story and part of our essay could be the fact that the two women hide evidences from the investigating officers to save the farmer´s wife, who stands under the cloud that she killed her husband, from punishment. The main and also very paradox question in this part would be: Who is really being taken as the victim, the murdered husband or his wife as the murder? In order to find the answers to these questions we are going to use additional literature about the historical background, the gender roles and the already published essays about these mentioned topics.

Dear Readers,

In our essay we would like to analyze the short story “A Jury of her Peers” written by Susan Glaspell, which can be described as an example of early feminist literature, as two female characters are able to solve a mystery of a criminal case, that the male characters are not able to because of their lack of ability to understand and interpret the woman´s behavior. The author originally wrote the story as a one-act play called “Trifles” for the Provincetown Players in 1916. In our analysis, we will discuss some specific characteristics of a short story, making a connection with "A jury of her Peers" and its own structure. Also we intend to approach the historical context, the storyline and the way gender roles are presented, showing different opinions that we had at that time and how this matter is viewed now a days. In this part we will question about the women actions in the story, her feelings towards the situation and their roles in the society and in the plot. All this, trying to create a parallel between that time and the present, with the changes that occured and the importance of the short story in this topic. We are going to use additional literature about the historical background, the gender roles and the already published essays about these mentioned topics.

The Merchants

Dear Readers,

In our essay we would like to present and analyze the short story “A Jury of her Peers” written by Susan Glaspell which could be described as an example of early feminist literature, as two female characters were able to solve a mystery of a criminal case, that the male characters were not able to, because of their lack of ability to understand and interpret the women´s behavior. The author originally wrote the story as a one-act play called “Trifles” for the Provincetown Players in 1916. Therefore, we are going to divide our essay into parts with different topics. First of all, we would like to inform our readers a little bit about the author and the specific characteristics of a short story. In the second part of our essay we would like to focus on the historical context, the storyline and the way how gender roles are presented, discussing different opinions on this topic and comparing them to the ones existing in our days. Do we still have to deal with this topic today? How do the gender roles now look like? Have we reached equality of men and women yet? All these are questions we are going to analyze and discuss in the course of the main part of our essay. Another important topic of this short story and part of our essay could be the fact that the two women hide evidences from the investigating officers to save the farmer´s wife, who stands under the cloud that she killed her husband, from punishment. The main and also very paradoxical question in this part would be: Who is really being taken as the victim, the murdered husband or his wife as the murder? In order to find the answers to these questions we are going to use additional literature about the historical background, the gender roles and the already published essays about these mentioned topics.

Dear readers,

We are supposed to create an analysis based on the short story " Trifles" by Susan Glaspell. This story may be also called " A jury of her peers" and this is the terminology I will use throughout this letter. We will make an investigation on certain human values such as: sexism, feminism and reason X emotion feelings that were dealt with on the story. How do women behaviour contrasts men´s when they are up to investigate a crime´s scene? This is a key question to start a discussion on the sexual war. How different men and women are? And in what sense are they different? These pieces of information will be easily found in our article.