Comparing Lamb To The Slaughter And Desiree's Baby

There are similarities and differences in the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin. In the two short stories “A Rose for Emily” and “Desiree’s Baby” the reoccurring theme is love and tradition.

There are also a lot of differences in the stories like in “Lamb of the Slaughter,” the wife was pregnant beginning of the

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The similarities between the two plots of the stories both involve a female who is the antagonist and who have both done something bad. The character Mary Maloney and Vera Sappleton are similar because they both did something wrong and they are both the one ones who know what they did. Also, they both know how to lie and manipulate other people into believing whatever it is they want them to believe. The themes are similar in such

John Cariani is a drama writer on the other hand Roald Dahl is a fiction writer. Although these are two completely different generes, they are very similar with their themes, even though Lamb To The Slaughter was first orignally published in September 1953, and Almost, Maine was first premired in 2004. Though they have similar themes the stories are very different from one another. Roald Dahl wrote his story as a fiction piece whereas John Cariani wrote his as a drama play. Both writers gave the readers a story in which two women suffer so tragically that their hearts break but sometimes people need suffer a little bit to get where they are now.

One theme of the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” is how women had to act because Mary had to act throughout the whole story. In the time when this story takes place, women had a very important role in the lives of their husbands. The women always had to do what their husbands wanted and keep them happy. In order to do that, they often had to act like everything was perfect and they were always happy. In the story, Mary was waiting for her husband to come home. When he does, she acts very excited to see him and offers to take his coat and get him a drink. However, Patrick, her husband, seems very angry; veering the story off course. Instead of him acting like his usual self, he is drinking a lot. Mary has to continue to offer food and try to keep

In the short story Roald Dahl composed, Lamb to the Slaughter, Dahl indulges readers with cynical yet enticing characters. Patrick Maloney returns home to his pregnant and loving wife Mary to announce his withdrawal from their relationship. This sudden epiphany transforms Mary from the loving and calm wife into a corrupt and immoral killer. This sudden and psychotic transformation is all expressed through Mary’s thoughts, words, and actions. The introduction of the story portrays a scene where Mary is sitting on her chair and sowing contently.

Mary in “Lamb to the Slaughter” and Minnie Foster, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters in “A Jury of Her Peers” have similarities and differences between the two short stories. Both Mary and Minnie Foster are childless housewives who were fearful of their husbands. The wives were both interrupted from their normal routine by an incident that triggered them to murdering their husbands. After finding out he was leaving her, Mary is shocked into killing her husband with a leg of lamb which they were having for dinner. Minnie puts a rope around her husband’s neck while he is sleeping because he broke her pet canary’s neck. The two stories depict the wives as sympathetic figures who were justified in the crimes; neither murder was premeditated.

The theme of the two short stories are written is very different, however they do have some similarities like Family.

The similarities that both ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ and ‘Desiree’s Baby’ share, is the cause that started the twist. When both the main female characters are casted out from their husbands, when the husband had stopped showing love to the wife. When, in ‘Desiree’s Baby’, Armand, the husband of the female protagonist, Desiree, was showing her a face

In the stories of, “Desiree’s Baby,” written by Kate Chopin, and “Lamb to the Slaughter,” written by Roald Dahl, there will be some similarities and difference from both of these passages. Kate Chopin and Roald Dahl are both exceptionally well as authors. Although their stories may share some similarities, their differences are very distinguished from one another. Kate's character is suicidal, where as Roald’s character is homicidal. Both of the female protagonist characters will encounter some difficult situations and try to find solutions towards them. They will have their own way of solving their problems, but both shall suffer deeply for there are consequences.

In the text “Lamb to the slaughter” by Raold Dahl the wife is pregnant and the husband is leaving. The woman gets angry because she is probably scared about being a single mother so she decided to kill him. Both of the stories are alike because

The two stories, “The Landlady” and “ Lamb to the Slaughter,” fit the components the article stated on why people like to be scared. One of the components from the article is experiencing an adrenaline rush, “we feel increasingly more strong and powerful physically, and more intuitive emotionally. This charge to our physical and mental state is called an “adrenaline rush.”” Something in “The Landlady” that caused an adrenaline rush was when Billy recalled how he knew one of the names, “wait just a minute, Mulholland… Christopher Mulholland... wasn’t that the name of the Eton schoolboy who was on a walking-tour through the West Country, and then all of a sudden…” Billy was about to the say the boy had disappeared but then the landlady cut him off. So it

In the stories they both killed there woman but in the first story, which was dutches and he said “After giving the command, there was no more smiles”. In the second story which was lover, the narrator says “he wraps her hair around her neck three times and they chokes her out”. I think it shows many similarity but there are difference too.

To be cunning is to deceive others for personal gain. In the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, Mary’s character shows that being cunning and having a little bit of imagination, plays a key role in deceit. Mary demonstrates cleverness in the way she creates and executes her plan, imagination when acting, so much so that she almost believes it herself, and a talent for deceit in many different circumstances.