Trifles Essay
Moshe Fogelman
Mr. Feinstein
English 10 H
28 May 2017
Exploring Existentialism
Sartre s belief you are the sole author of your own existence stands true. Glaspell s Trifles uses
feminism and Eliot s ...Prufrock uses prisoners to respectively exemplify Sartre s stance. Glaspell s
Trifles uses feminism to exemplify Sartre s position. Glaspell illustrates socially superior men who
order the women to remain downstairs while the men investigate, thereby highlighting the women s
inferior societal status; Glaspell further instills the female subjugation as the men use their own last
names to summon the housewives (i.e. Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Wright), rather than using the women s
individual first names. Therefore, Glaspell s women make the ... Show more content on
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Eliot depicts Prufrock s personal reminiscence, Prufrock notes his decisions and revisions and
further revisions, which stand as the protagonist s fundamental remembrances as important choices
inscribing his tabula rosa and formulating his essence. Additionally, Eliot presents his meager man
choosing to avoid choice, which ironically reflects a profound choice; clearly, Prufrock chooses
indecision and, thereby, molds his psychologically painful and hesitant essence. However, a
dichotomy does exist. Perhaps, Eliot rejects Sartre s position you are the sole author of your
own existence since Eliot depicts vacuous, pseudo intellectual women who talk shallowly of
Michelangelo, rather than using the powerful freedom to choose and self define. However, this
perspective rings erroneous since the women, much like Camus Sisyphean understanding, own
and choose to live this vacuous life, thereby constructing their own fulfilling essence. If I could
talk to Sartre today, I would ask him the following: I m a sixteen year old orthodox Jew and
religion hounds my ability to choose. My parents, school Rabbis, pulpit Rabbi, synagogue
Cantor, and inflexible religious laws squeeze my future s trajectory into a narrow, straight path,
so how can I possibly sculpt my own essence? Iron blue and white (the Israeli flag) chains confine
my meager freedom to choose and deadbolt other views and paths. I suppose I can still make some
choices, even though my freedom to do so
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