The famous axe murders of Fall River in 1892 shocked everyone for years and many believe that it was Lizzie Borden or was it? Lizzie Borden is accused of killing her parents with an axe. Many believe that she committed this crime but was never caught. I believe that Lizzie Borden is guilty of killing her parents. Lizzie had a rocky relationship with her stepmother before and a week before the murders Lizzie got into an argument with her father and stepmother. When police searched the house there was no sign of anyone who had tried to break into the Borden house on the day of the murders and Lizzie was the only one in the house Lizzie should have heard the murders since she claimed to be downstairs and both of the murders occurred upstairs.Now …show more content…
In Source #3, the text states, “In the week before the murder, following an apparent family argument, Lizzie and her sister Emma left by coach for New Bedford. When Lizzie returned, she chose to stay in a rooming house for four days, rather than in her own room in the family residence.”Already having a tense relationship with her mother, an argument like this may have made Lizzie so angry that she would kill her step mother. Lizzie also had problems with her father. One of the problems she had with him was when she built a roost for pigeons and her father beheaded all of the pigeons because he thought that it attracted boys. Maybe just like her stepmother, this argument pushed Lizzie over the edge and killed her father as well. This is the first reason why I believe that lizzie is …show more content…
If Lizzie was the only person in the house at the time of her stepmother’s murder and she claimed to have not killed her, then she would have been able to hear the noise of the axe hitting her stepmother and falling to the floor.Many people could say that even though that she was downstairs she could be at a place in the house where she could but I am pretty sure she would have been able to hear her stepmother being killed.According to Source #3,” Although Lizzie claimed to have been downstairs at the very time her mother was violently murdered upstairs, she said she heard no alarming noises--this despite her mother having been struck multiple times with an axe and falling to the
The morning of November 15th, two of Nancy’s friends went to visit her and they found Nancy dead upstairs from being shot in the head. Law enforcement was called and they found
Imagine being wrongfully trialled for the murders of your father and stepmother. Well, this was Lizzie Borden’s reality in the notorious 19th century case. In August, 1892, the gruesome murders of Andrew and Abby Borden took place in a small town named Fall River. Because Lizzie Borden was believed to have a lot to gain with the murders of her parents, she was the only one accused of being the murder. With this case, I believe the council was right for pleading Lizzie as innocent. The public and police tried to use theories against her in court to prove she was guilty. With the whole public against her, Lizzie still stood strong and was proven innocent for the murders.
The McCarthy era is very similar to the Salem Witch trials. They are both similar, because they both dealt with hysteria. Hysteria is an uncontrollable fear or outburst of emotion. Both things had to do with people accusing each other of people being communist, and people being witches.
The evidence between witnesses seeing Lizzie buy poison, washing a brown stained dress, her inconsistencies in the alibis, and her lacking of emotion all pointed to Lizzie Borden’s guilt. Jacob applied society’s outlook on an 1800’s American women as frail, feeble-minded, morally driven individuals who are incapable of a planned murder, to support her argument that Lizzie, no matter how guilty she may have been, would not be convicted of murder. Convicting Lizzie of murder meant opposing the established woman stereotypes which endangered the cohesive mindset of
The Lizzie Borden trial of 1893 is one of the most interesting and famous court cases, an axe murder case, perhaps, and still over a century, we have yet to find out who was the murderer of Andrew Borden and Abby (Durfee Gray) Borden. The place where this murder happened was on a hot August 4, 1892 at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. First, it also included and/or involved Lizzie Andrew Borden, herself, of course, as the defendant and as the lead suspect. She was the only person in/around the house at the time of the murder and may not have liked her stepmother and/or have wanted to inherit the money her father already. Her father, Andrew Borden, had been attacked and killed while sleeping on the
Imagen a house of six people got destroyed by greed and grudge created one case that has the obvious answer, yet it has many theories of its conclusion. However, the most common theory that detectives in law schools; one of these theories that a young girl who takes psychological Madison killed her stepmom and father in 1994. Likely the murder has three accomplices in the murder of the Borden family do with the two victims, the evidence, and intentional cover-up. In1860, a child born later that her name will be known in the history, but not in a good way. That girl's name is Lizzie in a place called Fall River, in Massachusetts. According to Gale Girl that “Lizzie Borden had two sisters older than her Emma and Alice,
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.
On a cold northern morning the body of a man lay still in his bed. His blood did not flow, his heart did not beat, and his chest didn’t fall with breath. His wife sits still downstairs in the gloomy house that she views as a cage. Her stare is blank and her hands move slowly as if she is in some trance that shows absolutely no remorse. Minne Foster is guilty of murdering her husband which becomes apparent through the evidence and details given by Susan Glaspell in “A Jury of Her Peers”. Glaspell gives evidence and shows the realization that both women in the story also know that Mrs. Foster is guilty. Minnie Foster is guilty of murdering her husband, but a defense could be made to protect her.
To conclude, despite all the possibilities and other theories of Mrs. Maloney committing the crime out of anger or severe frustration towards Mr. Maloney, there is no credible way to prove it. Mrs. Maloney simply killed her husband as a result of mental anguish, self defense and trauma inflicted upon her. Mrs. Maloney did not plan to kill her husband. She was simply a victim of her situation and could not control her actions. Mrs. Maloney should not be spending time in jail, but safe at home grieving the loss of her husband.
Chapter 6: Sophia’s Journal (pgs. 41-50) – This last chapter of the 50 pages explains Sophia’s view of what happened in the mansion. She explains how they hear strange noises, doors slamming, babies crying, etc. She knows something is wrong with the house but is scared because she know it will happen again
She was the only person in the house during the murders and she had a motive to murder her step-mother. She hated her step-mother because her father had given large amounts of land to her family. Lizzie and her sister Emma felt that their father was giving his wife’s family land and expensive gifts out of favoritism. They also believed that someone in the house was stealing from everyone else. Lizzie was at the house the time the murders took place. She said that she saw a stranger walking near the house. If a stranger was hiding in the house, they would have had to kill Abby Borden then hide for two hours then find Andrew Borden on the couch and murder him. Of course it’s not impossible that someone who had a grudge against the Bordens could have hid for hours in the house and killed the parents, but it’s unlikely. Since someone was stealing from everyone else in the house, all of the doors were locked almost all of the
son, because she decided to go into Crooks’ room. But all of a sudden she becomes furious and exclaims, “Listen,
In The Virgin Suicides, there is no character development of the narrators, as they serve solely to retell the story to the readers, even if they throw in their own opinions here and there. Therefore, there is no real need for the reader to know who the boys really are, as long as they can explain to us the story of the Lisbon girls. This just helps the reader get a side of the story that’s relatively unbiased, since it’s not from the Lisbon girls themselves. This is contrary to The Yellow Wallpaper, where the ambiguity of the narrator actually adds an important element to the story: mystery. We never find out the name of the narrator, nor much of her background, history, or even what is to become of her once the story is over. The only clues we get are from slight mentions by herself, her husband, her sister-in-law and from a single line spoken near the end of the story: “‘I’ve got out at last,” said I, ‘in spite of you and Jane?’…” (Gilman, 656). This line could possibly mention her name, however, it could also be a misprint of her sister-in-law’s name, Jennie, but it could also be our final clue into who she was before her spiral into madness through her time in the rest
Tex aided Patricia. As he approached the two, Abigail released Patricia and cried out, “I give up, take me”. At that single moment of complete defeat, Tex stabbed Abigail with the blood stained knife that had struck her closest friends. As the blade pierced her flesh, she buckled down, grabbing her abdomen in excruciating pain as she collapsed to the floor. After stabbing Abigail, Tex went over to the couch where Susan was restraining Tate. He then, in an uncontrollable act, stabbed Sharon right in the heart. She slumped to the floor from the couch. The group of murderers made their way back to the front door and discovered Abigail had made her way outside in the lawn. Tex walked over to Abigail as she struggled across the lawn in an attempt to get away. He raised his knife and in an uncontrollable rage and stabbed Abigail until she was finally deceased. Not far from Abigail's body was the mutilated body of her partner dead Wojciech. His body was distant from his previous position which Tex had left
Later that night still feeling uneasy, Janine, tries to think of how to tell her mother, Nancy of what just happened. All of a sudden she becomes distracted by water dripping in the next room.