The words trifle and maleficent mean two completely different things, yet the two stories that are portrayed in Trifles and Maleficent can relate in many ways. Besides referring to a dessert, the word trifle refers to something of little value or importance. The word maleficent refers to something that is harmfully malicious. So how do these two plays with those names relate? In both of these plays, we meet a woman who has been betrayed by her lover. Because of this betrayal, these two women’s love has turned into anguish, and they have now grown an appetite for vengeance. In Trifles, we’re introduced to a woman named Mrs. Wright who is now being questioned for the murder of her husband. At the beginning of the play, Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Wright’s neighbor, states, “It never …show more content…
Maleficent was once a fairy who lived happily in the forest away from mankind. She met a boy, Stefan, who she thought was her true love, but after he became filled with greed, their relationship changed. After many years of being apart, Stefan came back to Maleficent, but even after being apart for so long, he was still filled with greed and only wanted power. Stefan did what he had to do to become king, even if it meant betraying Maleficent. In the movie, we think for a split second that Stefan has even the slightest humanity left in him when he doesn’t immediately kill Maleficent. After all, how do two people who were friends and lovers get to the point where one could kill the other. But he still betrays her and takes the one thing that he knows she will be powerful without: her wings. In the movie, we can immediately see the devastation in Maleficent’s face when she wakes up. At this point, we’re not fully sure what Stefan did to Maleficent while she was asleep, but the second she wakes up, we see a close-up on her pain filled face. At that point, we see the pain and suffering in her eyes and realize that something terrible has