Thursday, January 19, 2012
Overused?
Looking at the syllabus for this class, I was almost disappointed to see that we would be reading Trifles. I've read it in at least 4 other English classes at Shepherd, and I didn't think I would be able to find any new insights or ideas. However, after discussing the play in class, I loved how we could come up with so many different interpretations of just the last line, "We call it -- knot it, Mr. Henderson." In addition to the interpretations mentioned in class, I saw that the women are now knotted together into a unified effort to keep Mrs. Wright from being found guilty of the murder. Perhaps I'm reaching, but I like the wordplay in that line. Whether Trifles is overused or not, something new can always be discovered in the text.
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I agree, I read this previously and just took ait for face value. I enjoyed the story in my previous class, but I loved how we got to take the piece apart and see how our opinions on this piece reflected many of our views on femininity and stereotypes in general.
ReplyDeleteYeah--the "knot it"/"not it" was a new realization for me, too!
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