The stories “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “Death by Scrabble” are two very similar stories. Although these stories are similar, they are different as well. Lamb to the slaughter is a murder story that is about a husband who wants a divorce with his wife. The wife does not like this news and kills her husband with a lamb leg which was meant to be for dinner. But, on the other hand, the story, "Death by Scrabble" is also a murder story. In this story, the husband wants to murder his wife while playing
In the short story written by Roald Dahl called "Lamb to the Slaughter" describes the life of what seemed to be an innocent, pregnant housewife, but turned into a devious murder after her husband turned on their marriage. The story about denial, grief and battle for one’s innocence portrayed by Mary Maloney, tells a story of how women are capable of doing much more than what their abilities are seen as. From stereotypes, to appearances, to the assumptions made with betrayal, all influence’s the perspective
being,”Lamb to the Slaughter,” written by Raoul Dahl, and the second one being,”Death by Scrabble,” written by Charlie Fish. Though reading these stories I have began to notice a lot of similarities between the two, especially when it comes to how unhappy the marriages are. However they do have their key differences which I will go into greater detail about, below. One of the first things I noticed was the difference between the characters in the stories. In the first story we read,”Lamb to the
if caught, could immensely affect your life. The setting of the Lamb to the Slaughter takes place in the home of the Maloney’s. When Mary Maloney’s husband comes home and tells her he wants a divorce, she refuses to believe him. Once she realizes he is not lying, she goes down to the basement and grabs a lamb leg. She goes back upstairs and whacks him in the back of the head and kills him. Later when the cops show up, she feeds the lamb leg to them and laughs in the other room. Readers assume she is
Charles Perrault was the first person to have the story “The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods” published in 1697. Upon further examination of Perrault’s work, it becomes clear that he was using the story of a king returning from war to save his princess as an allegory for a deeper religious purpose. Perrault offers up his Christianized views in this fairy tale and it requires a more in-depth reading of the story to understand what he is trying to say. He placed ingenious clues that subtly articulate