Using Literary Elements to Compare Stories
Put your examples of three different literary elements that occur in both stories (as a comparison) as comments to this post. Each student in the group is responsible for a single example. Finish your work before Wednesday's class.
Remember to make your comparison based on, for example, how effective it is (you may decide that each story uses the element equally effectively but be sure to explain why you think that).
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The irony in "A Spoiled Man" is more effective than that used in "A Jury of Her Peers." Rezak is tortured, a commonplace irony, almost expected by some of us. But then, he forgives his torturers, saying "policemen did as they always do." It is a devastating reversal. Glaspell's irony works well but seems more mechanical. To people of her era, the irony of the women protecting Minnie Wright would have been more shocking. Perhaps that's the lesson: irony depends on certain knowledge and ways of thinking.—87 words
Humour
The humour in the “A Spoiled Man” is more sensible than “A Jury of Here Peers”. In the “A Spoiled…”the humour is done by an uneducated man, rezak., in public language,“I’d need to put stones in my gizzard like a chicken to digest the rich food that you good people eat.” But in the “A Jury…” an educated people, the county attorney, uses an ambiguous humour in his talking, “She was going to- what is it you call it, ladies?” “We call it- knot,” which is a very figurative humourous talking. 92
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The suspense in “A Jury of Her peers” is when Mrs. Peters finds out that the bird’s neck had been strangled, and when Mrs. Hale hides the bird from Mrs. Peters at the end because it grabs the readers’ attention to read more. The suspense in “The Spoiled Man” is when the police officer changed his tone in the car and during the torturing scene because it grabs the readers’ heart to read further.—75.
Flashback
"A Jury of Her Peers" has a variety of the flashback, most of them are related to Mrs.Hale and Mrs.Peters's empathies for Mrs.Wright. Their "stillness" experiences and Mrs.Wright cheerful past affect them to understand the incident. On the other hand, the flashback in "A spoiled man" is more simple than "A Jury of Her Peers". Rezak remembers his stepbrothers, his wives, and his miserable past. That related to his determination that "God gave me so much more than I deserved".
Character
The description of Mrs. Hale in “A Jury of Her Peers” is more effective than that of Rezak in “A Spoiled Man” because of her dynamic characteristic. We can see a definite and major change in the character of Mrs. Hale than Rezak. The developing character of Mrs. Hale, from being a very submissive and quiet woman to being aggressive and defensive, is very capturing to the audience because she is able to confront the enemy and victoriously defends women’s right. On the other hand, Rezak’s static character as being humble, even to the point of wrongly admitting that “the fault is [his]” (15) after being tortured, sort of portrays him as defenseless and weak in fighting what is right. -120
Characters
Both “The Jury of Her Peers” and “A Spoiled Man” have their main characters belong to the lower class of their societies. Minne Wright is a famer’s wife and Rezak works as a servant and has no property except his tiny little hut. They both are ignored by other people in usual; they both have no influence in their communities; they both are tragic characters. However, their personalities are different. Minne Wright is native; she doesn’t try to have any social life after she gets married. She has no friend, even never talks with her neighbour. She seals her life into that boring, dull marriage life. Rezak is a different sample, he is more positive. There are many cases demonstrate this point: he is trying to be useful; he decorates his little hut; he works devoutly in the little orchard; he “buys” a little wife and even dreams to have a son so he can die happily; he tries all the best he can do to find his wife; after he is tortured in the police office, he tries to understand them. We are amazed by approaching this character and touched by his tolerance and optimism.
So, even both characters are tragic, but we get different feeling by reading them.
In the story "A jury of Her Peer" , the irony is being used more effective than the story "A spoiled man". It is a common knowledge that someone should not go against the law or should not hide any evidences that can be utilized to solve a crime. In Mueenuddin's story, the irony is used when Rezak was tortured. However, i already knew that is what going to happen to Rezak when he was asked to go with the policeman, because he is poor and have no voice to speak out in the society where he in. On the other hand, in Glaspell's, the story goes and turns out to be the opposite of what is expected, or becomes different from the reality. Mrs. Peter is a sheriff's wife, so we expected that she should follow the law or must at least aware of something about how the law works. Nevertheless, she concealed the evidences to cover up Mrs. Wright's actions, which is never what we expected from her. She should have told tell her husband everything she knows because that is the right thing to do, and that is what people should do, as a contribution to the society.
Flashback is used in both stories. When Mrs. Hale recalled the young age of Minnie Foster, She said,” When she wore a white dress with blue ribbons, and stood up there in the choir and sang.” This flashback indicates Minnie Foster was used to be like a happy bird. So, what happened to the real bird should have strong connection to Minnie Foster. This is a simple way to do the connection. While in “A Spoiled Man”, Rezak lay on his stomach and recalled his first wife, his mentally disturbed wife, his stepbrother, the TV….This flashback gives readers a quick review of Rezak’s life and creates a sad atmosphere and then followed by Rezak’s reaction, an unexpected, beyond normal, stunned reaction. This flashback is much powerful and effective.
It was a time women were framed housewives whose responsibilities were keeping houses tidy, putting dinners on the tables and be the silent ones unless their husbands let them speak. We can find the examples in the “A Jury of Her Peer”--Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. In this story, it was decades ago when there were still telephone poles were discussed to be put up or not. Compare to the story “A Spoiled Man”, it is more nowadays, there were cell phones used in this story by the son of the Inspector General of Police. And the women were individuals, they could be themselves, like Sonya, she was educated and took Yeats or Rilke’s books as a restorative. She married to a husband from a rich family had had servants for generations. She is the one who had no any worries or concerns of taking care her household. Unlike Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, they were farm housewives, as Ms. Hale replied to the country attorney, “Farmers’ wives have their hands full.” Their minds were more into daily trifle or needs, totally opposite to Sonya. The different settings of these two stories give the readers the different aspect to indulge.
In both stories, I see a main theme is what a person deserves for his or her life, but he or she feels it differently in his or hr actual life. In “A Jury of Her Peer,” according to the law, Mrs. Wright will be punished for murdering her husband, but she feels that she deserves it in her spirit. Unlike in “A Spoiled Man”, poor people think life is simpler than rich people. Like, a poor Rezak simply thinks he has more than he deserves in his life, and lives happily in “a little shack”. His thinking shows oppositely from his master, the American wife, who feels sorry for him and gives him salary
Irony is present in both stories: “the jury of her Peers” and “The spoiled Man”. In the first one, the slyness of Mrs. Hale contradicted her husband’s point of view: “women are used to worrying about trifles”. He thought that women couldn’t worry about matters beyond de house work, but his wife was the one who found the crime’s evidence and kept it. In the second story, the irony involves nostalgia: when Rezak had almost everything he never even dreamed to have, he got a wife who was supposed to give him a child. However, she disappeared and again Rezak has almost nothing, not even a desire to live; he is lonelier than before.
The symbol in "A Spoiled Man" is more impressive than that used in "A Jury of Her Peers." We have a lot of details about Rezak’s box-like cubicle and build up a strong connection between Rezak and his home. When we come to the end of the story, his cabin which was once vividly alive to Soyna becomes a wreck. Its existence is as weak as Rezak’s life. Glaspell gives us a bird as a symbol of Winnie. Though I can apply bird’s character to the poor women, I don’t see it connecting to a murder very smoothly.--98 words
The suspense is in both stories. I found that The Jury of Her Peers is looking for motive in order to put Mrs. Wright into murder trial. The men are searching upstairs and leaving the women in the kitchen. Mr. Hale find a gun which can be used to kill a man easily and his wife find an canary been wrung by her neck.
The suspense in The Spoiled Man was missing of his wife. The efforts of searching his wife bring in a little mystery and misfortune to this poor old man.
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