Hi, everyone. This is my second post. Today I am to talk about the theme of ''Lamb and the Slaughter''. This is a wonderful book. It is very trilling and it has a twist in the end of the story.
The theme of ''Lamb and the Slaughter'' is Decpection. In this book, there are two main characters, that is the husband and the wife. When the husband married the wife, he could be a loving and caring person, he takes his wife out every Thursday. That why, Mary Moloney, hid wife would love him so much. And Mary Moloney, a perfect wife who loves his husband very much is a good housekeeper and was satisfied with hr life.
The story begins with the husband. He bacame uncaring and wanted to leave his pregnant wife. Mary Moloney could not take the truth and killed him. She was emotionless when she killed him, she probably thinks he deserve it. (and I thought she was a perfect wife) At the end of the story Mary Moloney got away. If you want to know how, go an d find the book.
There are also a few stories that I read, and the theme is also Deception, it is the Male Child and Love. In the Male Child, the husband was a good man and was good to her six daughters and her wife. But the husbnd wanted a male child so much, that he wanted the married another woman.
In the story '' Love'' . The main character, Pearl is extremely in love with Frankie and want to get married. After a while, she dump him becasuse of Frankie's sick father. She is scared that the illness may be hereditary and she does not want a sick husband. So, was her love true? ( Probably not)
All of this stories have one common point, that is the theme. The theme of these stories are ''Deception''.
P.S. Please post your comments.
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13 years ago
Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on your well-reasoned answer to the theme in Lamb To the Slaughter. You have provide much evidence and have gone further than that to compare Lamb To the Slaughter with other short stories. Overall, I think you done a great job and have put in much effort in formulating this analysis.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I think that you should consider the intensity of the "crimes" committed by the characters in the story. In my opinion, the word "betrayal" would be a more appropriate term to signify the intensity of the "crimes" committed. For example, I think that when Mary killed her husband, deception alone is not a strong enough word.
All in all, you did a great job in this analysis. Keep it up!