Lamb To The Slaughter Research Paper

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Abigail Atwood Miss Guentzel English 8C, Per. 1 28 March 2024 The Comparisons and Contrasts to Murder Essay What is the point of anger if you do not use it for murder? “The Tell-Tale” and “Lamb to the Slaughter” both have murder. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is a thrilling horror fiction story. There is a young man who loves this old man. The young man was insane, so he stalked the old man for seven nights. On the eighth night, he ended up murdering the old man. When the police showed up, he felt so guilty that he ended up confessing and telling them where he hid the body. In Roald Dahl's horror fiction “Lamb to the Slaughter “ a husband tells his wife bad news. The wife, feeling dazed, kills her husband by hitting him in the back of the head with a leg of …show more content…

In “The Tell-Tale Heart” voices “But nothing is better than this agony” (Poe 8). On the other hand, in “Lamb to the Slaughter” it explained “And in the other room, Mary Maloney began to giggle” (Dahl 6). In the first quote, it voiced how guilty the murderer felt. He thought that anything was better than his guilt. On the other hand, in the second quote it explains how she started to laugh when she got away with murder. She was pleased that they would never find the true murderer of her husband. The two murderers are so different because they felt differently in a similar situation. This difference makes “Lamb to the Slaughter” worse because she feels no remorse. In conclusion, this evidence proves that “Lamb to the Slaughter” is worse than “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The difference that makes it awful is that she did not plan the murder. The other thing is that she did not feel bad about murdering her husband. These make “Lamb to the Slaughter” worse because she did not think about how much it would affect her; she just killed her husband. Also she could have regretted it but she did not, she did not care that she took someone's life from

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