Lamb To Slaughter And Jury Of Her Peers Analysis

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“Lamb to Slaughter” and “Jury of Her Peers” have very similar plot lines. The settings were both set in a small town in the early 1900s. The women are treated as maids and are expected to serve the husbands at every hand and foot. Both husbands were rude to the wives and treated them like they were worthless. In each time period, women still did not have the same rights as men did. They were still expected to work at the house and always respect their husbands and do what they ask of them. The two wives had similar personalities, they are both quiet and kind, they stay at home to help with the husbands, they both listen to the husband and do as he says. Until one day the two wives had enough and decided to kill their husbands, which in both

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