Triffles

Liberty and the hability of being, that's what this play is about. A woman who is accused of deliberately killing her husband. What were her motives? Why did she do it? Nobody kills just for the fun of it, there is always a reason. Mrs. Wright was a woman oppressed by her husband, a good but cold man, who there is a possibility that was a control freak and didn't allow her to be herself. As many women in that era of the mid 1920's early 1930's, Mrs. Wright was submitted to her husband, to respect what he wanted and to pleasure him in every possible way, never talking about what she wanted or felt because she would just be simply ignored or badly beaten. By living with Mr. Wright, Mrs. Wright was exposed to badly psychological damage in a manner of speaking that she wasn't allowed to make noise, she wasn't allowed to join any social organization, and she wasn't allowed to be herself in her own home. All this facts led to Mrs. Wright having a nervous breakdown, after the murder of her singing canary at the hands of her husband was the last drop, and snapping against all of that made her opressed, which just in the end resumed into one object, her own husband. She saw murder as her only way out because in all her trauma she had become afraid of her husband, making her scared of escaping because what was going to happen to her, maybe she would escape succesfully but then how would she substain herself when in her era women were just seen as "slaves" of the house and the kitchen, and what if her husband caught her, maybe he would have finally killed her.

I personally think that she did the right thing and that she killed her husband in self defense because even though the damage couldn't be seen physically, but Mrs. Wright was mentally abused after she married her husband. As Mrs. Hale described she was a cheerful person before that and right after her marriage she died slowly on the inside, which takes us to the point of were the canary was murdered. Mr. Wright killed the bird, symbolizing his wife as a cheerful and vibrant woman who was totally drawn out of life. After the bird died she put it in the finest silk and in the finest box, which for her meant all the precious things that she once had and now were gone, or as the canary, were dead.