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Comparing Lamb to the Slaughter and The Speckled Band
This essay is a comparison of two short stories 'Lamb to the
Slaughter' and 'The Speckled Band' by highlighting the techniques that
make it classic or not a classic crime novel. A typical murder mystery
consists of a very intellectual person who pieces together parts of a
jigsaw to unravel the murder mystery.
'The Speckled Band' is a typical crime novel because it has a very
intellectual Investigator Sherlock Holmes who is the only person who
is capable of solving the mystery of who killed Julia Stoner. The
house in which Sherlock is investigating is old and large which is
also a typical setting for a murder novel. In the end Sherlock Holmes
solves the cleverly devised mystery using all his wit.
'Lamb to the Slaughter' is not a typical crime novel because the
detectives are not very smart and cannot solve the crime. The setting
is an ordinary house that is seemingly cosy. The detectives are not
very professional as they are all persuaded to consume alcohol while
on duty. Unlike Holmes they do not click how the murder was devised
even when it is right under their noses. Sherlock uses clues such as
the milk saucer, the poison and the whistle to come up with the theory
of a snakebite killing Julia Stoner. The detectives in 'Lamb to the
Slaughter' had many clues such as when Mrs Maloney is speaking to Sam
the grocer:
'I got a nice leg of lamb from the freezer.'
It does not occur to the detectives that the leg of lamb is a club
shape suitable for causing the blow to the head and being frozen will
be as hard as steel.
Both Arthur Conan Doyle and Roald Dahl use methods t...
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Holmes solves the murder the inspectors in 'Lamb to the Slaughter' do
not. In 'The Speckled Band' the snake that Dr. Roylett used as a
murder weapon is enraged by Holmes hitting it with a stick that it
crawls back and bites Dr. Roylett. This gives the reader a feeling of
triumph as good overcame evil. In 'Lamb to the Slaughter' it ends with
the inspectors eating the murder weapon and only evidence allowing Mrs
Maloney to get away with the murder. One of the main constituents to
the classic crime novel is that the intelligent individual solves and
justice is served. Doyle delivers this while Roald Dahl does not.
Therefore the main difference is that Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The
Speckled Band' is typical of a classical crime story and Roald Dahl's
'Lamb to the Slaughter' is purposely the opposite.
He backs ups every time Ms. Turpin responses and listen to every common she says. In away the narrator showed instantly who the leader in the relationship was. “Claud you sit over there” (697). Claud seem as a man that didn’t get much attention from anyone and would make done anything for him to be the laughter and the guy that will be talk bout in a good way. As we all know Claud lifted his pants up to show his leg for no reason just so everyone in the room could have seen his leg and people would have ask. “ Claud lifted his foot in the magazine table and rolled his trouser…”(697). “ “my “ the pleasant lady said “ how did you get that” “ (697). He loved showing an appearance and making the people want to engage him and ask him the reason how it happen. As Claud was the center of the group Ms. Turpin quickly responding “ a cow kicked him “ (698).
When a young boy is found brutally murdered in a small Prussian town called Konitz, once part of Germany, now part of Poland, the Christians residing in the town lash out by inciting riots and demonstrations. Citing the incident as an act of Jewish ritual murder, better known as blood libel, Christians rendered blame on the Jews. Helmut Walser’s Smith, The Butcher’s Tale, details the murder account and the malicious consequences of superstitious belief combined with slander and exaggerated press propaganda. Foreshadowing the persecution of Jews which would take place three decades later, Smith analyzes and explains the cause and effect of anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany at the turn of the century. Utilizing Smith’s book as a primary source,
head. She might just have hit him with a steel club.' As you can see,
Both Dahl and Glaspell convey themes of the domestic trap that society places women in through different literary devices, in the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" and the play Trifles.
Paula Bohince grew up in rural Pennsylvania town and still resides there. (Bohince, Paula). The theme and setting reflects a young innocent girl raped in a Pennsylvania town. The poet writes the poem from the victim’s perspective. The words give a creepy feeling of what has happened. The poem describes a young girl who was brutally taken advantage of and relays the devastating affect it had on her. The diction is very fitting for the poem. It creates a very vivid picture of the devastating affect the attack had on the girl. The diction creates a gruesome picture and tone for the reader. The use of words like transparency, black lamb and maggots generates a rejected feeling in the girl. There is no place she can hide and her feelings are constantly being eaten away.
Comparing the Way in Which Helen Stoner and Mary Maloney are Treated in The Speckled Band and Lamb to Slaughter
Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl, instantly grabs a reader’s attention with its grotesque title, ensuing someone’s downfall or failure. The saying “lamb to the slaughter,” usually refers to an innocent person who is ignorantly led to his or her failure. This particular short story describes a betrayal in which how a woman brutally kills her husband after he tells her that he wants a divorce. She then persuades the policemen who rush to the scene to consume the evidence. This action and Patrick’s actions show the theme of betrayal throughout the story which Roald Dahl portrays through the use of point of view, symbolism and black humor.
Comparing Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter and The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Helen emerged from her room around 11:00 pm asking for a bottle of wine and Mrs. Townsend delivered the wine and engaged in brief conversation while noticing the young man lying on the bed reading. She was very familiar with Robinson and was able to say without a doubt that he was the one that was in the bedroom with Helen. No one saw him leave nor did anyone let him out. Mrs. Townsend testified that a man had knocked on her door asking to be let out, but told him to have his woman to come and get the key. No one returned for the key so there is no possible logical explanation of how Richard got out of the house, nor was a logical possibility of how anyone else could have gotten in the house.
Silence of the Lambs, is commonly said to be one of the most famous thrillers made. After watching the film for the first time, I noticed the director had many interesting themes and concepts. Some of these themes included, good vs. evil, the search for peace, judging a book by its cover, and gender and sexuality in the workplace. The theme I found most interesting, and what I found the director made most apparent, was gender and sexuality in the workplace. The director showed that gender and sexuality in the workplace was the most noticeable theme because of the constant contrasts set between Clarice and her male co- workers, her continuous denial about her femininity, and the amount of danger Clarice runs into because as a women, she is always having to do things on her own.
Everyone knows the story of Snow White. Everyone knows about the old woman who came to Snow White’s house was actually the queen in disguise, and that the apple the queen gave Snow White was poisoned. But Snow White didn’t. This is a perfect example of irony in a story. Ironic situations like this occur a lot in our daily lives, and many stories, like the short story Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl. Throughout the story, Dahl demonstrates many moments of irony, which have a long term effect on the whole story. Dahl’s uses dramatic irony effectively to help enhance the plot and help the reader understand the story better.
In “Lamb to the Slaughter”, Roald Dahl uses diction, details, and syntax to emphasize the matter-of-fact tone that is consistent throughout the entire story. Diction is a key element of tone that conveys this matter-of-fact tone. For example, Mary Maloney says to herself after killing her husband, “All right… So I’ve killed him” (Dahl 320). This sentence is lacking emotion. It states a pure fact, without going into further detail and captures a turning point in Mary Maloney’s way of thinking. By telling herself “all right,” Mary distances herself from the murder. She is detached from her own story and does not reveal any qualms about murdering her own husband. Similarly, Dahl uses the next sentence to describe Mary’s thoughts by explaining,
There are two kinds of people in the world, lambs and tigers. The lambs are the young and inexperienced, they have no greater knowledge of the harmful world around them, nor do they obtain any knowledge of true evil. Just like the animal itself, cute, calm, peaceful and non-violent. The tigers on the other hand have witness and experienced the horrors of the world around them; they have lived through horrors and hardships that have caused them to evolve from lambs to tigers. The times are tough in the time period of William Blake. In these two groups, the people are classified by either a lamb or a tiger. William Blake wrote two poems in his life; one called “The Lamb” the other call, “The Tyger.” These two poems were classified into two groups, one call the Songs of Innocence, the other call the Songs of Experience. The poem, “The Lamb” fits into Songs of Innocence due it is simplistic views and easy language, while the poem, “The Tyger” fits into Songs of Experience due to is tone and fear.
In "The Lamb," Blake utilizes the image of the sheep to paint a picture of guiltlessness. The sheep is an image of Jesus Christ. The sheep is additionally an image of life. It furnishes people with nourishment, dress, and different things people need to survive. The line "For he calls himself a Lamb" is a line that Jesus himself has utilized (Blake 538). A sheep is an exceptionally accommodating and gentle animal, which could be the reason Blake decided to utilize this creature to depict God's giving side. He even alludes to God as being resigned and mellow in line fifteen: "He is docile, and he is gentle." Blake needs to show his followers that God is wrathful yet a pardoned and adoring inventor.
“The Lamb” by William Blake, pg 120 In William Blake 's Songs of Innocence and Experience, the fierce tiger and the gentle lamb define childhood by setting a contrast between the two very different states of the human soul. “The Lamb” is written in a way that would be suitable for a very young audience. “The Lamb” is one of the simplest poems that William Blake wrote. The symbolic meaning of innocence can easily be found throughout the poem.