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Revenge In Susan Glaspell's Play

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Susan Glaspell’s play describes a women’s suffrage story. Womens brains will be the key to for women gaining power from the men in this story. The one thing that women are criticized for, the idea that women tend to look at the short run and do not have any vision and they changed that on their path to victory will be there path to victory. Two stories of revenge are told in this story, the revenge of being portrayed being not equal to men and revenge of being portrayed as ‘Unintelligent and objects ’ women. In this story we have story of Mrs. Wright and the struggles with her husband, John. Married women throughout history have been portrayed and played the role as being inferior or less than to the husband in marriage. In This story this seems to be the case with Mrs. Wright. There is a lot of abuse in this of abuse in this marriage.When they discover of the broken door in this story it leads to leads me to conclude that John was very physical and anguished. Second, it is assumed that Mrs. Wrights husband had broke her birds neck. The bird, which has always been in a cage , was represented as the old Minnie Foster herself. Her bird was, free spirited bird that had a sweet voice, and Minnie also had at one time. This was the end of the line and ‘Minnie Foster’ was about to be reborn. She would stand up for all those abused and suppressed house wives across the world and makes the first ‘final’ decision she had ever been allowed to make. The bird’s cage

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