<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[William Norton]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome readers! This site shows all of my writings: blogs, essays, and fiction that has been published recently. Click to read more. ]]></description><link>https://www.williamnortonwrites.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:39:33 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.williamnortonwrites.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Susan Glaspell's Trifles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Written over a century ago, Trifles (1916) by Susan Glaspell remains a play relevant to society and culture, questioning the male patriarchy and its role in the twentieth century. The story begins in a Midwestern farmhouse, when a county sheriff and an attorney are questioning Mr. Hale and his wife, the neighbors who discovered the dead body of Mr. Wright. They believe Mrs. Wright is the murderer and as they continue to investigate, the attorney and sheriff make crude remarks about the state...]]></description><link>https://www.williamnortonwrites.com/post/reading-susan-glaspell-s-trifles</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69900157a816bdca356e1436</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:06:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e9c9a6_afe5ffb143d248c3a002edba1081b7ea~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>William Norton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[                The Wife of Bath's Tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[He saw a dance upon the leafy floor, Of four and twenty ladies, nay, and more. Eagerly he 		approached, in hope to learn, Some words of wisdom ere he should return. 	-Geoffery Chaucer, “The Canterbury Tales”. 	The Wife of Bath’s Tale  is one of the most iconic poems from The Canterbury Tales. It questions the role of women, in an era dominated by the patriarchal monarchy. As the narrator describes her previous marriages, she justifies her views through the tale of a disgraced knight who must...]]></description><link>https://www.williamnortonwrites.com/post/the-wife-of-bath-s-tale</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698ff52cec9bf7f4acf81428</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:23:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e9c9a6_e59167efa979402d93f9093124a774f1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>William Norton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Beowulf]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tale of Pagan and Christian Identity]]></description><link>https://www.williamnortonwrites.com/post/reading-beowulf</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698eae87e46957565bf61d0f</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:58:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e9c9a6_0fc3c28e471f46f49957f714608bfe84~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_933,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>William Norton</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>