Analysis Of Lizzie Borden

Have you ever gotten so mad at your parents that you would consider harming them? In 1892, a woman named Lizzie Borden was accused of killing her father, and her stepmother. However, she was found innocent because of the reason that there was not enough evidence that she committed the murders. In fact, there was no evidence that anyone performed the murders. I do think that Lizzie borden murdered her father and stepmother because Lizzie borden was an odd person who would most likely do this odd action. I believe Lizzie borden killed her parents because she had a somewhat bad relationship with her stepmother, her father's decision in living was not how it should have been, and she was a weird person. First, I would like to explain Lizzie Borden’s

Before the murders, Lizzie had not had a full on conversation with her stepmother in over 5 years. Also, the marriage between Abby and Andrew, “Soured” the relationship with Andrew and his daughters. Going five years without talking to someone who has been there for almost all of your life would be really hard for me. I would have to dislike someone very severely in order for me to ignore a person for this long. This makes me wonder whose fault it was this happened, and if they both wanted to not talk, or just Lizzie just ignored her stepmother. With that said, hatred, and even more hatred could have built up with no conversation between the two, maybe Lizzie couldn't handle it

By that I mean that she answered questions asked by police with answers that made little to no sense to them, like if she didn't care what happened to her. It seemed that Lizzie Borden did not try to help her own case when police asked her questions. In fact she took no one's side. I understand that Lizzie had a family, a nice home, and amazing parents that did no wrong to her, but she did not have the best alibis to explain her innocence. In the video we watched as a class, Lizzie was ready to be taken by the police and answer their questions. However, at the same time, she seemed to be offended when they acknowledged Abby Borden to be her mother, she responded, “She is not my mother, she is my stepmother!” Lizzie also claimed to be in the upper part of the barn when the murderings occurred. When the police went to check it out, they said it was severely warm and wouldn't be reasonable for someone to stay up there for longer that 15 minutes. For this main reason, I think Lizzie lied to the police, and got away with the murders. Finally, Lizzie borden killed her Father and Stepmother and she should have been imprisoned. She had bad relationships with her parents, was upset with her family's lifestyle choice, and, even though they were her parents who raised her, she didn't seem to be, “all there” when answering questions from the police. Lizzie disliked her stepmother, disagreed with her Father, and answered