Roald Dahl and DH Lawrence are remarkable and splendid writers. They have their own ways of portraying the characters in their stories. This is most evident in "Tickets, please" by DH Lawrence and "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, in which the female characters have differences as well as similarities.
Firstly, the difference is obvious in the lifestyles of the characters. In "Tickets, please", the women conduct the tram system entirely ("This, the most dangerous tram-service in England... is entirely conducted by girls..." - "Tickets, please" pg 131). This is common during the war because all the men are out fighting. Because of the war, the women have more opportunities to work in places where men used to dominate before, and they are more independent as they earn their own living. The women are also described as `fearless young hussies'. On the other hand, the female character in "Lamb to the Slaughter", Mary Maloney, is portrayed as a perfect and devoted house wife who waits each night for the arrival of her husband, Patrick, from work at the police station. Unlike the women in "Tickets, please", Mary Maloney does not have an opportunity to work. She is confined to staying at home and caring for her husband's needs. ("She laid aside her sewing, stood up, and went forward to kiss him as he came in... She took his coat and hung it in the closet." - "Lamb to the Slaughter" pg 137) She adores her husband and love only him, whereas the women in "Tickets, please" are less committed in their relationships and they are involved in short-term relationships. ("She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man... she loved him for the way he sat loosely in a chair... she loved the intent, far look in his eyes..." - "Lamb to the...
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...sn't prepared to take a chance." - "Lamb to the Slaughter" pg 142). This immediately puts her on `par' with Annie in "Tickets, please", who is equally independent, if not more. Mary Maloney is no longer the loving and faithful wife as described at the beginning of the story.
In conclusion, both writers portray their female characters well. The way they portray the characters is consistent to the story and the period of time the story is set against. Roald Dahl develops Mary Maloney's character both through direct and indirect characterization, revealing her character as being dynamic through her words and personality. DH Lawrence, on the other hand, portrays the women in "Tickets, please" the way he saw women during war-time England. This sense of reality or "real-ness" is what brings the characters in both stories to life, making the stories enjoyable to read.
and symbolism shown in both of these stories. Her style is unique to other writers but
In Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary Maloney, doting housewife pregnant with her first child, commits a heinous crime against her husband. After he tells her that he is leaving, she become distraught and strikes him in the head with a leg of lamb. Afterwards, Mary...
Along with each character’s similar attributes, the relationships they both have with their husbands are comparable. Zeena Frome and Elizabeth proctor share many characteristics and relationships through each story, showing how similar each works of literature are alike. Over the two stories previously mentioned there are many similarities and are strongly comparable through each character, which can be found looking at various pieces of
Throughout these stories, young females are portrayed as passive beings in the beginning of the stories but it becomes clear in each that passivity is not celebrated in women.
...te when it comes to emotions and each of the female characters are the product of male influences and much of their rage is intermixed with occasional feelings of love due to their lack of self-recognition.
...hetypes of these primary characters, both of these novels make a parallel statement on feminism. The expectations of both themselves and society greatly determine the way that these women function in their families and in other relationships. Looking at the time periods in which these novels were written and take place, it is clear that these gender roles greatly influence whether a female character displays independence or dependence. From a contemporary viewpoint, readers can see how these women either fit or push the boundaries of these expected gender roles.
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works of literature have tremendous amounts of similarity especially in the characters. Each character is usually unique and symbolizes the quality of a person in the real world. But in both stories, each character was alike, they represented honor, loyalty, chivalry, strength and wisdom. Each character is faced with a difficult decision as well as a journey in which they have to determine how to save their own lives. Both these pieces of literatures are exquisite and extremely interesting in their own ways.
In both of these stories there are certain characteristics of females that are the same, they are inner strength, obedience, honor and respect, the good of the family is better than the good of the individual.
Both stories show the characters inequality with their lives as women bound to a society that discriminates women. The two stories were composed in different time frames of the women’s rights movement; it reveals to the readers, that society was not quite there in the fair treatment towards the mothers, daughters, and wives of United States in either era. Inequality is the antagonist that both authors created for the characters. Those experiences might have helped that change in mankind to carve a path for true equality among men and women.
...re many similarities when it comes to technique, characterization, themes, and ideologies based on the author's own beliefs and life experiences. However, we also see that it appears the author herself often struggles with the issue of being herself and expressing her own individuality, or obeying the rules, regulations and mores of a society into which she was born an innocent child, one who by nature of her sex was deemed inferior to men who controlled the definition of the norms. We see this kind of environment as repressive and responsible for abnormal psyches in the plots of many of her works.
These women authors have served as an eye-opener for the readers, both men and women alike, in the past, and hopefully still in the present. (There are still cultures in the world today, where women are treated as unfairly as women were treated in the prior centuries). These women authors have impacted a male dominated society into reflecting on of the unfairness imposed upon women. Through their writings, each of these women authors who existed during that masochistic Victorian era, risked criticism and retribution. Each author ignored convention a...
In the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney is shown to have a very sinister and manipulative character. In the beginning of the story, Mary Maloney was a normal, loving and caring pregnant housewife that loved and cared for her husband, Patrick Maloney, very much. Earlier at the start of the story we see Mary was waiting for her husband to come home from work. She had set up the house with two table lights lit and plates on the dining table so they can have a very romantic dinner when Patrick comes home. When Patrick came home, Mary was very excited to see him. She would try to offer him some drinks and insisted she would get things in the house he needed so he didn’t have to get up himself. The countless times that Patrick said no to her offers and helpful doings, she still tried to serve and tried to make him feel comfortable and relax after work.
There is no doubt that the literary written by men and women is different. One source of difference is the sex. A woman is born a woman in the same sense as a man is born a man. Certainly one source of difference is biological, by virtue of which we are male and female. “A woman´s writing is always femenine” says Virginia Woolf
The two novels prove the claim of the research, which is working on the female characters; and that is why these novels are chosen and made a comparison between them. Both of the writers make their protagonists the victims and from another side send to them the one who will help them to overcome their ordeal. Finally, their life has completely changed and reached what they want.