Lamb To The Slaughter Essay

“Lamb to the Slaughter” Summary “Lamb to the Slaughter” is a short story written by Roald Dahl set in the 1950s at the Maloney household. Mary Maloney was married to a man by the name of Patrick Maloney, who was a dutiful police officer. She was expected to have her first child coming soon. The story started off innocently with her husband coming home; however, he had seemed strangely moodier than usual and even fetched himself a stronger alcoholic drink. Mary ignored these anomalous behaviors, and attempted to enlighten her husband’s mood. Patrick urged Mary to sit down, since he had an important matter he wanted to discuss with her. In the bluntest, yet comforting way he could, Patrick stated that he was in love with another woman. This…

Lamb to the Slaughter Theme Paragraph "Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short story written by Roald Dahl and tells of two betrayals: Patrick Maloney's unexplained decision to leave his pregnant wife and Mary Maloney’s killing of her husband right after which concludes to be the ultimate betrayal. Patrick Maloney betrays his pregnant wife by telling her news, which requires him to leave her and their child. Mary Maloney is at home waiting for her beloved husband, Patrick to come…

Theme in Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” The theme of the short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, looks deceiving. In the story, housewife Mary Maloney kills her husband after he divorced her. After his death by a leg lamb to the head, Mary fakes being innocent to avoid arrest. She has lots of experience, being the wife of a detective. “Why don’t you eat that lamb that’s in the oven? It’ll be cooked just right by now.” (Dahl 116). It looks like Mary Maloney is just trying to…

Lamb to the Slaughter is a very interesting and mystery story by Roald Dahl. The story is about a pregnant woman name, Mary Maloney, who awaits for her husband to come home from work. Mr. Maloney husband, Patrick is a detective at the police station. Mrs. Maloney is a stay at home wife. You can sense the love she has for her husband by the way she waits for him to come home and the way she insist he eats dinner. Mr. Maloney had other intentions; he had been thinking all day about how to tell his…

Thesis: “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “A Jury of her Peers” are two short stories that have many similarities, but also have their fair share of differences. Each story can be compared, showing correlation between them, and then compared to show the outliers between them. “Lamb to the Slaughter,” and “A Jury of her Peers” are similar in many ways. In both of the short stories, the main plot is about a wife who is dissatisfied with the husband’s choices, and how the husband treats each of the…

The use of dramatic irony in "Lamb to the Slaughter" contributes to the structure of the story by creating a sense of tension and a dash of humor. The article says,"...he told her, had been killed by a blow on the back of the head administered with a heavy blunt instrument, almost certainly a large piece of metal. They were looking for the weapon. The murderer may have taken it with him, but on the other hand he may have thrown it away or hidden it somewhere on the premises.” This shows how the…

doing on a horror book website, but this is not children’s reading material! Dahl wrote a number of books for adults and my favourites are his collections of strange and macabre short stories such as Skin. This book features eleven stories filled with colourful characters (who differ in each tale) and unique mini plots. This is not a horror story with ghosts and ghouls, but the magic is found in what Dahl sometimes leaves unsaid, leaving the reader to imagine the outcomes. Once you start a…

An Evaluation of “Lamb to the Slaughter” By: Roald Dahl Not many people look at their food and see a weapon. There has been some accidents in justice, but have any of them included where the law enforcement has eat the evidence? In ‘Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, a wife is home and waits for her husband to arrive. When he arrives, he does not cooperate about dinner, his wife Mary gets angry, and kills him. In the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, it displays the theme of…

Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” INTRODUCTION My analysis of Roald Dahl’s short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” reveals the murder of police detective Patrick Maloney. The story depicts a tale of a loyal wife’s reaction to her husband’s betrayal. The story is an irregular day in Mary’s regular life. She makes the day turn around by murdering her husband and smartly covering it up, leaving the detectives with no possible way to excuse “innocent” Mary of murder. This short story, we are taught…

Scary Story Response Paragraph In the stories “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “The Landlady” did have the elements that made the stories creepy. One of the things that made the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” creepy was at the end of the story the police, that were Patrick’s co workers, were eating the murder weapon. The murder weapon was the lamb leg. In the story Mrs. Maloney says “And in the other room, Mary Maloney began to laugh.” She said this because the police were talking about how the…