Is retaliation justifiable? Has anyone ever told you something so unforeseen and remarkable that you lost your mind? Not literally of course, but you lost the ability to make rational decisions and think things through. When a person is in shock they tend to suppress their sensible mind and react with actions seemingly out of character for them. Succumbing to this sort of mentality doesn’t mean you’re weak, it just means you’re human. Imagine if you had just been told you were adopted. What would you do? Would you be thankful that you’re wonderful parents took you in and loved you? Or would you be vengeful towards the parents who gave up on you? Both are reactions, both have consequences, yet sometimes one is easier than the other when you’ve …show more content…
The story is about a woman named Mary Maloney and her husband Sam Maloney. Mrs.Maloney is described as typical 50’s housewife who stayed home and took care of the house while she waited for her husband to come home. She loved her husband very much. On page 2 the author wrote, “She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man.” As if she almost worshipped him in a way. On the other hand Mr.Maloney was cold and aloof. He said never asked or said things, so much as he demanded them. When Mrs.Maloney offered to make dinner he kept saying to her, “Sit down! Just for a minute, sit down.” Once she had sat down he told her that he was leaving her and that he’d make sure she was taken care of. She was so distraught and shattered that she went to the freezer and grabbed the frozen leg of lamb and struck him with it. She did this almost robotically, as if she herself wasn’t doing it but her body was. She was mistreated for so many years yet she stayed with him. The news of him leaving her after everything she’d done for him was her breaking point. Before the emotional trauma of the news, she would’ve never done that. But the him leaving was so surprising and soul crushing that she wasn’t even lucid at that point. She had be so badly broken that she killed the man she worshipped. …show more content…
It’s also about a husband and a wife. This time their names are Mr. and Mrs.Foster. Mrs. Foster has severe anxiety about being late. Mr.Foster has what’s known as a sadistic personality. He likes to cause pain for people and watch them suffer. He often feeds stress into his wife by stalling and purposely being late for everything just so she’ll go ballistic. She never confronts him about it because “he had disciplined her too well for that.” (Paragraph 3) Mrs. Foster had spent months persuading him to let her go to Paris for 6 weeks to see her daughter and grandchildren. He was making her so late that she finally walked back up to the house to tell him they had to go. When she reached the door she heard him stuck in the elevator. She knew that this trip to Paris was her ticket to freedom so she left him in there and told the driver that had was staying home. When she got back her husband was dead and she was free. He had tortured her for so long and she was finally free. She knew exactly what she what would happen if she left him in there, but after all the torture and emotional abuse she knew she had to leave him in there. Her actions are completely justified because people have the right to defend themselves which is exactly what she did. She knew that he would keep hurting her if she helped him, so she ended the pain the only way she knew how. Over the years all the suffering she had gone through because of him
When Mrs Hale and Mrs. Peters first walk into Minnie Wrights house, they see how lonely and unkept her house was. The men could not understand why a woman would keep her house in that condition, but the women determine how sad and depressed Mrs. Wright was. "'I might 'a' known she needed help! I tell you, it's queer, Mrs. Peters. We live close together, and we live far apart. We all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing! If it weren't—why do you and I underst...
In the beginning of the story Mary Maloney sounded so sweet, kind and generous. She patiently waits for her husband to come home from work. As he gets in the house, Mary treats her husband with whiskey and a kiss. She knew he didn’t want to talk until the first drink was finished. Mary keeps up with her husband’s daily routine and she notices something strange. He lifted his glass and drained it in one swallow but there was still half of it left in the cup. She knew what he had done because she heard the ice cubes falling back against the bottom of the empty glass when he lowered his arm. Although, when the husband tried to get himself another glass, Mary tries to get it for hi...
Adoption always appears as a happy time for the child and the new parents, however, internally it might not seem happy at all. According to Lydia Tarr, a parent who recently adopted a child, “stress is amplified by one hundred percent during the adoptive process.” (Karlsson) The Tenenbaum parents unfortunately couldn't handle that stress, and instead of taking Margot back, ignored her and the stress altogether. In th...
First, the film portrays a story between two people who have each encountered some heavy troubles in their own lives. The main character is Pat Jr, he lost everything; his job, his house and his wife. Due to all his troubles, he was sent to a mental institution. After getting out he met a young woman named
I have always known that I was adopted. There was never one day when I realized that my parents were not biologically related to me. Being adopted has always been a part of me, ever since early childhood. Almost every year, in my elementary school classes, I had to create a project in which I had to describe myself. Sometimes I would have to use objects or pictures, at other times I would have to write an essay or poem. Every single time I completed a variation of that assignment, I included the same three facts about myself: I like to dance, I enjoy going to the beach, and I am adopted. I remember being so proud to
and through the loss of her mother and enduring her abusive father, she ended up in a brothel where she met her husband. Through marrying him, she stuck by his side even through murder. That brought on committing murder herself and ended in her death.
center around one woman and her fall from reality and life due to the shackles of marriage.
Most human beings are fake even when the person they are fake to are as real as they come. Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl is about a man who was talking to his wife about breaking up with her but after they talked she was filled with anger so she hit him on the head with a lamb, and ended up killing him. In Lamb to the Slaughter the theme of most human beings are fake is very prevalent throughout the entire story. Mrs Maloney shows this with her relationship with her husband.
Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl, instantly grabs a reader’s attention with its grotesque title, ensuing someone’s downfall or failure. The saying “lamb to the slaughter,” usually refers to an innocent person who is ignorantly led to his or her failure. This particular short story describes a betrayal in which how a woman brutally kills her husband after he tells her that he wants a divorce. She then persuades the policemen who rush to the scene to consume the evidence. This action and Patrick’s actions show the theme of betrayal throughout the story which Roald Dahl portrays through the use of point of view, symbolism and black humor.
No one knows what it feels like to be someone that is adopted other than people who are. People who are adopted usually have an emotional impact as well as psychological effects because of being adopted. It took longer for me to find my own identity, and to develop what my identity is today even though I am still not 100% sure who I am. I also obtain a great amount of guilt or feeling lonely at some port in time. There are many times where I have felt unwanted or in some cases abandoned. This could mean the smallest impacts on my life such as a friend leaving or not wanting to hang out. A breakup can also be something that will impact me more than others could because of that feeling of abandonment. Though it is hard on myself it is also hard on the peop...
Why would a married woman go out, spend the night with a man whom she barely knows, when she has a wonderful, devoted husband and child? Mrs. Mallard's cry of ultimate relief and the joy she felt when she learned of her husband's deathis intolerable.
Humanity’s innate cruelty results from scarcity as scarcity does not allow for everyone to have everything they want, thus people must make compromises which leads to conflict and thus cruelty towards other people. World War II remains in human history as the epitome of human conflict where all nations came together to fight over scarce resources, leading to several cruel stains in human history, including the Holocaust, The Rape of Nanking, and the bombing of Dresden, throughout World War I countless individuals lost their lives for the motivations of those who controlled the Ally and Axis countries. These lost lives were brushed away as a necessity of war and thus forgotten in the tides of time - all because of countries logically prioritizing
In the two well known stories, “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “The Lady or the Tiger,” both deal with relationships that have gone wrong. The story for “Lamb to the Slaughter,” starts out with Mary Maloney, who is pregnant and sews and waits for her husband to come home everyday. When her husband comes home one day and tells her that he is leaving her, she gets upset and ends up killing him with a frozen lamb leg. By the end of the story she is able to also get away with doing it. As for “The Lady or the Tiger,” this story deals with a King, whose daughter has fallen in love with a man who is not of the same status as she is. When the king finds out of this, he sends him to their version of a court system, which consists of choosing between two doors. One that has a tiger that will kill them and one that has a girl that the man will get to marry. The princess knows which door has each option in it and has the power to tell him which one to choose. Although in the end, the story never actually tells you which one she picks, and leaves it up to you to imagine what she does. Both of these stories have a lot in common, such as dealing with complicated relationships, as well as both of these women end up losing no matter what they choose.
Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel which takes us through the journey of how James Jarvis, a well known estate owner that learned the ways of social dehumanization in South Africa because of the murdering of his son. If the death of Arthur Jarvis, his son, would have never happened, James would have never been informed about his acts of kindness or writings, and the umfundisi, Stephen Kumalo. As James Jarvis comes into the picture, we find out e knows limited information about the life of his son. As Stephen Kumalo discusses with Harrison the abomination and scandal of the city, the very next day he discovers the incident involving his son.
Not everything is what it seems especially in a relationship. This concept is hammered home in Rodall’s Lamb to The Slaughter. This story is about a wife who kills her husband and covers it up to escape the death penalty. Not everything is what it seems is a theme that is prominent in this story. While everyone thought that they were the perfect couple in reality they had problems and the husband was not happy.