Mary Maloney loved a man who did not love her back we can say that Mr. Maloney mistreated her for a long time. That love turned into rage the moment she saw the opportunity to kill him. This is why she is guilty of second degree murder. This woman looked forward to her husband's homecoming everyday, she loved him. When she grabbed the leg if a lamb from the freezer, she didn’t think about finding a murder weapon, she was thinking of her husband's happiness. At the moment of the crime, she did it without a thought, and as the wife if a detective she knew she needed to cover it up. Mary Maloney realized that she had committed the perfect crime when her husband's friends were eating the murder weapon. What is horrible is that she found a wicked enjoyment at the end. …show more content…
Maloney testified that ‘ for me 5:00 pm was always a wonderful time of the day. I loved the warmth that came out of him when we were alone together.” with this testimony we know that she wasn’t planning to kill her husband. She was looking foward all day long for her husband to get home. We know of her plans to go out for dinner, it was a routine for them to go out every thursday. This woman could have not plan a murder. Talking about Ms.maloney not planning the murder we know that she went downstairs to the freezer, she put her hand aside and took hold of the first object she found. In this case it was a leg of a lamb, but the detectives found a variety of meat. The detective found beef, pork and several legs of chicken close to the place where the leg of lamb was. Ms. Maloney could of grab anything from the freezer, because she wasn't thinking of a murder weapon, she was thinking about
In the story Lamb to the Slaughter written by Roald Dahl, the writer emphasizes the woman's loyalty to her husbands will, despite the constraint in her social life. Mary Maloney obeyed her husband's commands forgetting her own, making sure he had everything he needed. Offering to grab her husband whiskey, he commanded her to sit down insisting that he get it himself. (Dahl 1) Although she could have taken time to do stuff for herself she did as her husband told her to without question. Another scenario of Mary's loyalty to her husband was proved to him as she selflessly asked him about his day rather than putting the spotlight on herself. For instance, she asked him if he was tired forgetting her own concerns. (Dahl 1) In place of telling him
Mary Maloney is accused of murdering her husband with an unknown weapon for an unknown reason. Chief detective, Patrick Maloney was murdered last night at his own house, no suspects have been identified yet and the search for the murder weapon was futile. Apparently, the officer had come home exhausted from work and was waiting for his wife Mrs. Mary Maloney, who left to buy food across the street for their dinner. According to a statement, Mary arrives home from the grocery store to find her husband dead on the living room floor.
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...
Life. Life is what gives you the ability to think, to speak, to breath and to be a part of this world. It is worth more than any amount of money, your life is priceless. Without it, we would seize to exist; our world would be utter darkness. Honourable Judge, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, today Mary Maloney stands on trial before you. A woman who took the away the life of not just an innocent citizen, but her very own husband. She was thought to be an ordinary women, a typical housewife and a soon to be loving mother. However, the facts presented before you today conclude that Mary Maloney was not just an unordinary detective’s wife, but also a murder. On April 13th 1953, the life of Patrick Maloney came to a tragic end because of leg of lamb in the hands of Mary Maloney. For the following reasons, Mary Maloney, wife of the deceased, is guilty of 1st degree murder.
It was a normal evening in the Maloney home. Mrs. Mary Maloney sat sewing, while waiting for her husband to return home after an involved day as a police officer. Around 5 o’clock Mr. Maloney returns home with shocking news and… Bang! …a leg of lamb hit over his head and Mr. Maloney falls to the ground dead. All evidence and theories, point to Mrs. Maloney being the killer of her husband, but why? Mrs. Maloney did not kill her husband out of anger after the recent marriage incident, but she did it as a result of mental anguish, self defense and trauma inflicted upon her by her husband. All these events explain exactly why Mrs. Maloney murdered her husband out of reasonable measures.
Having to take your anger out on someone isn’t fair or good, especially if you’re being killed with frozen lamb. Based on everyone’s understanding, when you kill someone you’ll have to pay the price and consequences. Apparently this lady didn’t. But are we sure she’s going to marry another man and kill him too? In “Lamb to the slaughter”, I’m going to be talking about Mary Maloney and how madly crazy she is.
Starting from the very beginning of the night Mrs.Maloney testified that her and her husband were discussing a “touchy” subject. Although Mrs.Maloney will not confirm the “touchy” subject to the court, a testimony from an unidentified source can fill in the blanks from that conversation. A women came into the police station and told police she was Mr.Maloney’s lover. Is this the conversation Mr. and Mrs.Maloney were having the night he died? Could this be a motive for Mrs.Maloney to murder her husband? Mr.Maloney was killed with a single blow to his head, according to the corner. There was no struggle from Mr.Maloney. However, when police showed up to the Maloney residence, the living room and desk were torn apart. The chair to the desk was knocked over, papers from Mr.Maloney’s desk were scattered all over the floor and over the desk. A small table by the couch was knocked over. Something that caught the attention of investigators was the crime scene itself. If there was no struggle from Mr.Maloney, why would an intruder create one?
We see with Mary that being pregnant can alter your emotions and cause someone to act much different that who they really are. Her husband being ready to divorce, makes her in denial that he no longer wants to be with her and hopeless because she will be left to raise her baby alone. Mary, not being about to think straight, kills her husband, going to show that she was evidently suffering from mental instability during and even after the killing. As evident, this was no murder committed in cold blood. Mary is innocent in the murder of Patrick Maloney by plea of temporary
Would lie to save yourself from punishment , or tell the truth regardless of the consequence?
On Thursday, July 16, Mary spent her day like she would any other. She looked forward to the time with her husband that they had every evening when he arrived at home (Dahl). Mary was glancing at the clock, without anxiety, awaiting her husband’s arrival (Dahl). Knowing this, it’s obvious that Mary was calm and unprepared to murder her husband. If Mary is being charged with first degree murder, it states, “The killing is deliberate and premediated” (Berman). If Mary had planned the murder of Patrick Maloney she would not have been calm in doing nothing all day. Her calmness shows the fact that her killing her husband was not premeditated. However, when Mr. Maloney arrived home and gave his wife the news that he was leaving her, her entire attitude was forced to change dramatically. Why? Because when giving a six month, hormonal pregnant woman stressful news, her hormones are forced to increase
Mary played the role of a very caring wife at the beginning of the story, since she was always there for her husband and tried to do anything to serve and satisfy him. Firstly, as soon as her husband came home “She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks”(Dahl 2). Later on when she notices that her husband seemed depressed, she asked him, “Would you like me to get you some cheese” (Dahl 2). When he says no, she replies “But you must eat! I’ll fix it anyway” (Dahl 2). This shows the care she had toward her husband at the beginning of the stroy and how her life used to revolve him. Furthermore, it shows how she used to do anything to please him. Therefore this proves how she knew her duties and responsibilities toward her husband really well. Although, in this story, Mary Maloney was not only a very a dutiful and caring wife, but during the story she transitioned into becoming an even more dutiful mother who was well aware of her responsibilities. After she killed her husband she thought of her child and wondered, “What were the laws about murderers with unborn children? Did they kill the both- mother and child? Or did they wait until the tenth month? What did they do? Mary Maloney didn’t know. And she certainly wasn’t prepared to take a chance” (Dahl 3). This shows how Mary Maloney had created this entire plan just to save her child and didn’t care what harm came to her. Therefore this definitely makes her a very caring mom, because it takes a lot of love to do such a thing. So this definitely makes her the perfect mother. In conclusion, Mary Maloney is strongly aware of her duties and responsibilities. Therefore, she was able to carry out the entire plan because people knew how much she loved her husband and so people trusted her. Also, she created this plan because
...e oven?” (Dahl 4) Mary was very manipulative and sinister because she knew exactly what she was doing; she wanted the officers to eat up all of the lamb so that there would be no evidence of the murder weapon that she used to kill. As the officers were eating up all of the lamb, Mary was very happy and giggling while she was listening to the officers eat up the lamb, she was never grieving about the loss of Patrick and just wanted to kill him and cover up the evidence so she will not be caught.
Before Mrs. Maloney was confronted by her husband with shocking news, she loved him and offered to help him whenever she could. Mary was always looking forward to seeing her husband come home and enjoying his company. She loved how he came through the door from work and how he kept quiet about his tiredness. Usually a pregnant woman killing her husband is no accident, but this particular case is strange because, at first she loved her husband and all of a sudden she kills him. This observation supports Mary Maloney’s temporal case of insanity because at first she loved her husband, Patrick, and then she assassinates him.
1. I condemn Mary Maloney’s actions because she killed her own husband. I think she should’ve accepted it and try to start a new life. With the money, her husband was offering so she could get looked after instead of hitting him ''over the head'' with a frozen lamb leg and committing a crime.
When the police arrived they try to understand and figure out how Patrick has been killed. But unluckily the officers can not notice Mrs. Maloney was the killer. At the end of the book Mary Maloney giggles when the officers said, “Probably right under our very noses. What you think, Jack?” (Dahl 18). Throughout the beginning, Mary Maloney seemed like a nice caring wife but what Patrick said caused her to do a crime. At that point, Mary knew she got away she eliminated the evidence and managed to escape. Mary laughing shows readers that the killing of her husband was not important to her at all. Therefore the theme of this story is to not trust everybody.