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Characterization, irony and symbolism in the lamb to the slaughter
Characterization, irony and symbolism in the lamb to the slaughter
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Compare and contrast the stories of Roald Dahl and Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle Show how each writer creates a sense of mystery, And uses character
description, themes and vocabulary to make an effective short story.
In this assignment I am going to compare and contrast the stories of
Roald Dahl and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I am going to show how each
writer creates a of mystery and uses character description, themes and
vocabulary to make an effective short story.
I have read the Lamb to the Slaughter and Roald Dahl wrote it. I am
looking at the similarities and differences.
The story is about a police officer and his wife. The police officer
came home from work and was very tired. She offered him tea he told
her he didn't want any. Normally they eat out on a Thursday but this
Thursday was different. The man drank drink after drink The man tried
to tell the women something but she thought he was going to say
something bad so she ignored what he was trying to say. Then the women
went to the cellar and got the biggest piece of lamb she could find.
She walked back up the stairs and hit him very hard on the back of the
head. He fell to the ground. Then she thought what have I done? She
walked out the house and went to the shop to buy some vegetables and
pudding for her dead husband. She was trying to put on a brave face
but it was hard. When she got in she phoned the police and they soon
came round. They started asking her lots of questions.
They searched the house for the murder weapon. They could not find it
so she offered them tea. The Police eat the evidence.
Mary has a sense of humor she's caring and loving. She has a split
personality; she's both weak and strong.
Patrick is a police officer. He likes his drink. He is very cruel to
Mary.
The detectives are not very good at the job. They are stupid. They
drink Patrick's whiskey. They even eat the evidence.
The tension was very high was Mary going to get found out or want she?
The evidence was cooking in the oven. I thought the police officer was
going to find the piece of lamb. It was a big piece of lamb. We didn't
find out what Patrick was going to say because she didn't want to
know. She thought it was going to be some thing bad. When Patrick
comes in he is quite and drinks a lot of drinks.
He tells her not to make a fuss about it because it's not good for his job who would tell their wife that or maybe someone who doesn't care. A mean man he is a cruel hearted man but mary still loved him mary felt broken hearted but tried to ignore it. He had no feelings for her and if he did he wouldn't have tried to leave her and would have worked out the problem.the officers said that he was a” ladies man” what if he didn't die would he have did this to another lady.
A basic sense of honesty is another of Mary Warren’s traits. In Act I she goes to Salem to convince Abigail to tell the truth about what really happened in the woods. When the witchcraft scare gets out of hand, Mary joins Abigail and the other girls in falsely accusing women of being witches. These false accusations are motivated by hysteria. There is evidence that Mary really believes that the women in court are bewitching her. She tells the judge that she thought she saw spirits. The other girls were screaming, and before she knew it, Mary was screaming with them. When she realizes that there are no spirits, Mary is willing to be truthful. After Elizabeth Proctor’s name is brought up in court, Mary Warren defends her against the accusation. At the end of Act II, the reader hopes that the basic sense of honesty will remain strong enough to allow Mary to testify on behalf of the accused women in Act III.
If she was caught by someone else, she could have been turned over to the authorities, and she and her family could have been gotten in
Mary struggles to get the pillow off, but Bigger overpowers her. He ends up accidentally killing her. The thoughts of him being caught and fired, or even being arrested under suspicion, overcame his mind. This is evident when Wright explains, “He knew that Mrs. Dalton could not see him; but he knew that if Mary spoke she would come to the side of
isolate him from the rest of the society who thought of Mary as a bad
When Abigail and the girls go against Marry Warren, they pretend that Mary is trying to hurt them through her spirit. They repeat whatever Mary Warren says and act like she will attack them. Mass hysteria can be seen during this scene. Overwhelmed, Mary, who was on John Proctors side, blames everything on him. “No, I love God; I go your way no more. I love God, I bless God. Abby, Abby, I’ll never hurt you more!” (Mary Warren, Act 3, pg. 52) She goes back to Abigail and John Proctor is arrested.
When Mary Warren is in the court testifying against Abigail, Parris prompts Mary to faint as she said she was pretending before, “Then no see no spirits now, and prove to us that you can faint by your own will, as you claim” (99). Parris wants to continue to support his story about the girls in the forest and so he targets Mary as she is fearful and weak. She is not able to faint as it was an electric impulse she felt with the girls and the power of suggestion that made her faint at the time. As the girls pretend to have Mary’s spirit on them, Parris joins in, “Cast the Devil out! Look him in the face! Trample him! We’ll save you, Mary, only stand fast against him and-” (109). Parris is insidious as he pretends that the devil is in Mary to convince Judge Danforth of Abigail’s lie. Parris manipulates the courts along with Abigail to discredit Mary’s story. On the other hand, Elizabeth is willing to accept culpability even for the sins she has not committed. Elizabeth attempts to tell John that she cannot decide whether he should confess or not for him, “I have read my heart this three month, John. I have sins of my own to count. It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery” (126). Elizabeth has been away from John for three months and in this time away from
her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and
In conclusion, Mary is clearly shown to have a very manipulative and sinister character because she was a cold blooded murderer who had no feelings for her husband when she killed him, and she made people believe her grieving stories to make them feel sorry for her. But, all she wanted at the end was to cover up all of the evidence so she does not get caught and go to jail.
Mary's life is controlled by a man, a womanizer, a cheater. Because of the guy who abandoned her, she gives up everything. "she had given up everything but her work, and that there had been in her history some reason.", this is how the narrator has told us, everything but work. Her work is inescapable because she still needs to live. She
to her feet, but they could not wake her so they went to the police
the book and novel and was both given to her differently. The special glasses on the
Dahl, Roald. "Lamb to the Slaughter." Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories. London: Penguin, 1995. N. pag. Print.
asked her to come to his room later that day. When she arrived he tried to force
Edgar Allen Poe and Roald Dahl have many similarities and differences. For starters, Poe and Dahl both have a dark history that can shine through in their writing. When Edgar was a little boy, he lost everyone who was close to him. He was convinced he had a curse that killed all the women he ever loved. His writing reflects his past in every way. “The Tell Tale Heart” really shows how his childhood has changed him into the writer he came to be. The short story starts out very tense. Poe states in the first paragraph, “nervous --very, very, dreadfully nervous I had been and am.” This quote gives the story a very dark tone right away. Dahl also lost his father and sister when they both fell ill. This did not affect Dahl as much as the deaths