A Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, is about a pregnant wife, Mary Maloney, who kills her husband,with a piece of frozen lamb. She calls the police and invites them to eat the lamb.They eat it all, while discussing how the weapon is most likely under their noses, as she laughs in the other room. Dahl uses dramatic irony and symbolism to reveal when one is felt betrayed, they can be driven to great lengths.
Dahl uses symbolism to show the role that a person is supposed to be fit in can be grown out of when driven to extreme lengths. In Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl, The narrator gives a short backstory to Mary Molony, “For this was her sixth month with child”(1) In this passage, Dahl explains that Mary Molony is expecting a child. This means that Mary and the baby she is carrying gives her this sense of innocence and purity because she is a pregnant wife always awaiting her husband, she being similar to a lamb who symbolizes innocence and her husband being the shepherd. This matters because the wife who is the lamb is no longer being slaughtered by the shepherd her husband but is doing the slaughtering and no one expects that out of the lamb. Inlife people will put you in a box and not expect you to do crazy things but you can, giving motivation(even if it's horrible) you can leap out of that box. …show more content…
In the story after Mary Molony serves the police officers the lamb one of them say, “The weapon of murder could be right underneath our noses”(4). The officers are literally eating their words because they were eating the weapon. This bring humor to the story, a lighter moment to the fact that a person was just killed. this matters because it shows that the little weak, gentile, innocent lamb(mary) slaughtered the shepherd(husband). In is unexpected and awesome at the same
Dahl uses symbolism to show the role that a person is supposed to be fit in can be grown out of when driven to extreme lengths. In Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl, The narrator gives a short backstory to Mary Molony, “For this was her sixth month with child”(1) In this passage, Dahl explains that Mary Molony is expecting a child. This means that Mary and the baby she is carrying gives her this sense of innocence and purity because she is a pregnant wife always awaiting her husband, she being similar to a lamb who symbolizes innocence and her husband being the shepherd. This matters because the wife who is the lamb is no longer being slaughtered by the shepherd her husband but is doing the slaughtering and no one expects that out of the lamb. Inlife people will put you in a box and not expect you to do crazy things but you can, giving motivation(even if it's horrible) you can leap out of that box. …show more content…
In the story after Mary Molony serves the police officers the lamb one of them say, “The weapon of murder could be right underneath our noses”(4). The officers are literally eating their words because they were eating the weapon. This bring humor to the story, a lighter moment to the fact that a person was just killed. this matters because it shows that the little weak, gentile, innocent lamb(mary) slaughtered the shepherd(husband). In is unexpected and awesome at the same