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Analyzing The Play 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

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1. A trifle is an object, person, or place with little value. In this play specifically, the trifle of the play in the dead bird. I believe this because the women in the play convinced themselves that the bird had such “’little value” that they did not need to tell the sheriff or attorney. In reality this little bird was the solution to the crime discussed in the play. I believe this was a very accurate title chosen for this play. When choosing a good title, you should choose something clever and not straight forward. This title is very intriguing and makes you wonder what the play is going to be about. It draws people’s attention, so they will come and see the performance. At the same time, the title represents the play very well, because the trifle is the reason the crime cannot be solved. As an audience you do not realize how the title ties in until after you have read the play. …show more content…

This play could fit into many types of genre, such as theatre for social change, tragicomedy, domestic drama and many others. I believe domestic drama is the closes to fit this play. A domestic drama is a drama that focuses on the everyday domestic lives of people and their relationships in the community where they live. This domestic drama has a twist because as this crime is something that can happen in everyday life, it is very unlikely. The type of drama in this play pulls in a tragedy theme. This play also describes everyone’s relationship with each other in the play, and more importantly their relationships with John Wright and Mrs. Wright. I believe Mrs. Hale possesses the strangest relationship in the play. She always talks of how great Mrs. Wright was, when everyone else seems to think the opposite, as well as the audience. We see Mrs. Wright as the killer of her

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It shows whoever reads it why lying is a sin. A society or puritans, focused on perfection of religion, is shocked by an occurrence of witches. Witches are the Devil’s evildoers, and should be persecuted at once. Abigal, the drama queen of the play, attempts to kill the wife of the man she loves with witchcraft. They are found, but whenever Abigal and the others attending are being accused, they lie, blaming others of being witches.

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