hearing this news‚ Mrs. Maloney undoubtedly went into shock; a trance almost. "When she walked across the room‚ she couldn’t feel her feet touching the floor. She couldn’t feel anything except a slight sickness. She did everything without thinking." [Dahl] She had just received life changing news. She stopped thinking. She thought of nothing except the betrayal of her husband. As her husband crashed to the floor‚ this poor woman realized what she had done. Being the wife of a detective‚ she knew
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Pericles‚ Aristotle and Dahl from those we learned what they think makes a democracy work. Pericles was the leader of Athens from 460–429 B.C. He developed a democracy based on majority rule. In “Pericles Funeral Oration” he describes Athenian
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and picked out through various mediums‚ but as technology evolves some of the biggest questions of humanity are still yet to be uncovered. There is still a pursuit to answer the big questions of humanity‚ but is it wise to do so? In the novel A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy‚ Douglas Adams illustrates the idea that looking for the answers to the big questions of life‚ stops us from living it all together. There are different types of people in the world. There are the people that enjoy a bit
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The Landlady and Crime & Punishment are titled specifically so the authors can introduce and link the themes of the text. Dahl deliberately used the vague title ‘The Landlady’ to evoke the reader’s interest. Before the story begins we are already curious to know who this female character may be and what she is capable of. The title ‘The landlady’ serves a strong relationship with the plot of the story. Ulman used the title ‘Crime & Punishment’‚ which makes the reader assume that the genre of
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difficulty on raising children. According to the short story of “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl‚ the husband Mr. Patrick Maloney often does not think about his wife Mrs. Mary Maloney’s feelings and he is rather controlling over her. He says things forcefully to Mary‚ for example‚ “sit down” and “Listen”. And ended up‚ Mary is timid and for sure she will complete Patrick told or it can say as command. (Dahl) A good wife will devotes herself to the husband and also respect to her husband however‚ husbands
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have more power than one may think. It’s a classic ’Mouse and the Lion’ story. The weak seem pathetic‚ but prove very powerful in the end. The short story begins in a very homey situation and Dahl emphasizes the great deal of love and willingness to cater to her husbands every need that Mary Maloney feels. Dahl portrays Mary Maloney as a typical ‘50’s housewife (although that very well may not be the era in which this short story was written); she waits for her husband with his drink prepared‚ and
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the structure‚ language and characterisation. ‘The speckled band’ was written in 1892 by Sir Arthur Doyle‚ he was qualified as a doctor which gave him a medical perspective for all his stories. ‘The lamb to the slaughter’ was written in 1952 by Roald Dahl most famous for writing children’s stories although he did write adult material such as the book ‘The lamb to the slaughter featured in ‘The tales of the unexpected’. Detective stories mainly base themselves around solving murder cases; the reader
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helper to the author to make their writing more fluid. Types of irony in stories are dramatic‚ situational and verbal. In the short stories “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela‚ “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl‚ there is situational and dramatic irony. The ironies affect the main characters carrying their stories out interestingly. In the short story “The Censors” there is situational irony. The protagonist Juan is in a predicament because
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In the short stories The Landlady and Lamb to the Slaughter written by Roald Dahl‚ an important setting is the households. They show us the importance of appearance vs. reality‚ as they show how things can often be different to how they seem‚ and that we can be easily deceived if we are too reliant on looks. This is shown through techniques such as irony‚ listing and adjectives. The Landlady is a story about a young man who believes he has found a safe place to stay‚ when in fact it is one of
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