THTR 1020 Lecture : Trifles Notes
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Trifles notes: the women have the power in this play. They started digging everywhere throughout the kitchen: the men are the ones that are in control and drive the action at first. The shift happens and the men are not making any progress, the women are the ones that find the evidence: pay attention to shifts in plays. Inciting incident incident that serves as the spark to set off something else: crisis/turning point things start to unravel, resolution, everything gets tied together/resolved. Conflict: an essential aspect of dramatic construction, protagonist: has will to do something, antagonist: thwarts (prevents) that will blocks the protagonists path to his will. Genre: when a particular combination of dramatic structure and conventions repeat, we call it genre, a system of classification for drama, genre is a system of repetition and difference: the basic structure repeats, but the elements change.
