The Lamb

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 wives. They are both fed up with how the husband and how he treats them, and so they decide to murder the husband. The two wives are introduced as sane, but after the murder, it becomes clear that neither one of them are completely “right” in the head.…

Selflessness in “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” William Blake is more different than others. He is humbled to help the people around him learn to love art as much as he does. His passionate desire for art is shown through his actions and his artwork, such as his poems. Blake shows the importance of being a successful leader in the world. In William Blake’s poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger", his selfless character is evident through his life, career, and poetry. William Blake uses his life to help…

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…

The Lamb and the Slaughter is written by Roald Dahl, and is about a woman whose husband is about to leave her. The husband was leaving her and the women was currently pregnant with a child. In addition, there was also a movie made about this text. However, even though they are made under the same idea the two pieces are very different. The Lamb to Slaughter’s film and text, are both very similar, however, the text is more about using irony and a direct tone while the movie is about getting…

“Lamb to the Slaughter” Mini-Essay Summary When Mrs. Maloney’s husband comes home from work he tells her that he wants to separate but she ignores it. She goes to the freezer and pulls out a lamb leg. Mrs. Maloney takes the lamb leg and hits her husband in the head which kills him. After she kills him she puts the lamb in the oven and goes to buy vegetables to create an alibi. When she returns, she calls the police. While the police are trying to resolve the case, Mrs. Maloney feeds them the…

William Blake’s “The Lamb” paints a picture by using aspects of imagery of how “the Lamb” in the poem represents the Lamb of God, which is Jesus. Jesus is the son of God, who created everyone and everything. From the beginning of the poem, it is quite obvious there is a double meaning for “The Lamb”, that being the lamb’s physical attributes as a literal lamb and its spiritual meaning as Jesus. William Blake creates a sense of imagery by explaining to us the lamb’s nature, the nature of the…

“The Lamb” and “The Tyger” are two of William Blake’s works which come from two of Blake’s most famous collections of poetry: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Both poems speak about the creation of different beasts at the hand of a single creator. In these two poems William Black makes the reader question who creates good and bad. How can god make something so nice and delicate and on the other hand something so fearful at the same time, and why did the creator create two opposite…

creations of god. In the poem “The Lamb” William Blake begins with a communicating with a lamb. The child focuses on the question, who is his creator? Suddenly it transitions to the child answering the question, which happens to be Jesus Christ. William Blake demonstrates we are all alike through the use of personification through the valleys, alliteration to emphasize the power of Jesus, and also a trochaic pattern throughout the poem to impact how a reader understands the importance of a line.…

William Blake’s poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” describe {two contrary states of the human soul} with “The Lamb” reflecting the soul at an innocent state, and “The Tyger” reflecting the soul at a more experienced (and destructive?) state. Blake’s poem “The Lamb” serves as a representation of a stage of innocence in one’s life, which encompasses purity, gentleness, and dependency. He describes the lamb as a docile, dependent creature with white, fluffy wool and a gentle voice, nothing out of…

home. Desiree then disappears and walks the opposite direction of her mother’s home, with the child in her arms. In Dahl’s story “Lamb to the Slaughter”, a detective's wife, named Mary, is in shock after the devastating news that her husband is leaving even though she is six months pregnant. She goes to the kitchen, grabs a frozen lamb leg and bats the back of his head with such a force that kills him instantly. These two stories are distinct because the setting, mood & tone and conflict are…