Literary Analysis with Critical Commentary

  Assignment In many works of literature that involve the investigation of a mystery, the solution to the mystery may be less important than the knowledge gained in the process of its investigation. Write an essay in which you explain how the investigation in Trifles brings audiences to the thematic heart of the play, its ultimate reason-for-being. For this writing assignment, you must use two of the articles of critical commentary that are posted in the Critical Commentary folder in this module on Blackboard as well as your own reading of the play to identify what the investigation reveals to be the central theme of the play. In other words, the question that you are trying to answer in this essay is: What is the play’s theme and how does the investigation of Mr. Wright’s murder reveal this? You will use Trifles as your primary source. The two critical articles that you select to incorporate as support for the argument that you are making are your secondary sources. Each of these secondary sources can also serve as models for you of how literary scholars write essays about texts with the incorporation of critical commentary by other scholars.