Liberty: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wishes without hindrance or restraint. It is a fundamental need of human beings after the necessities of survival. Without freedom, humans have no other meaning in life than to eat, sleep, reproduce and then die. Life without freedom would hardly be life. Life without freedom is confinement. With confinement, there is no choice to make. Every thought, every decision is already made by another entity. In the short story Trifles by Susan Glaspell, there are many symbols of freedom and confinement and how these led Mrs. Wright to kill her husband. These symbols are the house, Mrs. Wright's bird, and the song. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why violent video games should not be banned”?Get an original essayWhat is the most famous form of confinement? A prison. In the short story, even though the house is not a prison, it can be considered as one. For example, in the short story, the character, Mrs. Hale, said, “I never liked this place. Maybe because it’s at the bottom of a hollow and you can’t see the road.” Mrs. Wright must have gone crazy in a place like this. It (the house) is completely isolated due to its hollow location. She has no friends, she can't even see people in their cars because of the distance from the road. The only person she sees is someone who has been abusing her for years. The man who controls his every thought and every decision. The man who took everything from her. Her liveliness, her singing. It's sad. Sad to know that the only person she can turn to is the one who abused her. The one who took everything from him. The one who took his life away. The one who put her behind bars. The bird is a symbol of Minnie Foster before she turned to Minnie Wright. There are two quotes from Mrs. Hale's short story that prove this. “She wore pretty clothes and was vivacious, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls who sang in the choir. But that – oh, that was thirty years ago” and “She – come to think of it, she was a bit like a bird herself”. There is no denying that Minnie Foster resembled the caged bird by being in a figurative cage and also being compared to a bird. The bird symbolizes Minnie Foster's sweet, excited, and friendly character before the changes brought on by her marriage. Through her marriage to John Wright, Minnie Foster, the sweet and excited girl, was transformed into Mrs. Wright, a lonely, isolated and depressed woman. Throughout literature, song is a symbol of freedom. This is also the case in Bagatelles. In the short story, Mrs. Hale said: "She wore pretty clothes and was vivacious when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir." Back when Minnie Wright was called Minnie Foster, she sang a lot. She was free. Her late husband, however, did not like to sing. In fact, he killed his wife's bird probably because it sang. His killing the bird was like the way he killed Minnie Foster by taking away her song, her liveliness and above all her freedom. For many years, Mrs. Wright suffered emotional abuse and neglect from her husband. He took everything from her. He took away his song, his vivacity and his freedom. He kept her confined in a dark, hollow place, with no people, no friends, no parents, and no children. She couldn't even greet people on the road because it was too far. The only thing that made her happy was a canary she bought. But he took that away from her too. He tore off the birdcage and strangled the helpless canary. THE,.