The Body Snatchers by R.L Stevenson and The Landlady by Roald Dahl

Suffering from depression and an alcoholic, she mainly sold flowers. Eventually she turned to prostitution despite her basic features such as missing teeth and round figure. She was found murdered on Saturday, September 8, 1888. Her throat was severed and she was very mutilated. Her abdomens had been ripped open and the intestines had been detached and placed on... ... middle of paper ... ... prime suspect such as he was single at the time of the murders which meant he had the freedom to wander the streets, he was very violent with women and committed multiple murders of them.

With this knowledge, the audience is more likely to relate with Mrs. Wright from Trifles, even though she did murder her husband. Though all three pieces of literature deal with death, Trifles and ―The Story of an Hour‖ are the ones that deal with the perspective of the wives. Both the wives are similar in the way that they feel trapped by th... ... middle of paper ... ... to a realization that they have a choice of how they can live. The characters have the choice of living in misery, with a loss of who they are, or of doing something about it. In all the works, the characters do something about that misery they feel.

Brack was the lost love of Hedda, who feels responsible for her death. Unnatural death is without a doubt the motif that fuels these texts. Unnatural death is apparent with the deaths of Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary, and the deaths of Ejlert Lovborg and Hedda Gabler in Hedda Gabler. The use of unnatural death by Henrik Ibsen and Gustave Flaubert allows the Authors to breakdown the main characters and reveal their true personalities. “You've got to be mighty reserved and respectful about a suicide... A suicide's a kind of lean stuff for literature...” - Mark Twain (quote on suicide in literature).

From the beginning, it is made clear that there is more than one tie linking the deteriorating mental and physical condition of the inhabitants to the slow decay of its foundations. During his stay at the house of Usher, the narrator finds himself unable to draw his friend out of the abyss of misery in which he has enshrouded himself, both figuratively and literally. Admitting to his sister's approaching death being one of... ... middle of paper ... ... Fall of the House of Usher.” Throughout the tale, one sees clearly the binding ties between house and inhabitants. What was once a proud family mansion is reduced to a crumbling house, whose inhabitants are scarcely less changed. From the wasting disease of the lady Madeline, to her brother's nervous affliction, one discerns a tangible connection with their dark family home.

Due to Edgar Allan Poe’s loss of those he cared for throughout his life, Poe’s obsession with death is evident in his works of “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Black Cat”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, in which in all three death is used to produce guilt. At the end of “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe’s fascination with death is apparent when the narrator ruthlessly killed an old man with a disturbing eye, but felt so guilty that he confessed to the police. The narrator dismembered the old man’s body and hid them in the floor, confident that they were concealed. However, when the police came to investigate, the narrator heard a heart beating and began to crack under the pressure. Overcome with guilt, he confessed that he murdered him and pulled up the floorboards.

This diplomat stated that Vesalius's strong character and adjustments to the previous studies in medicine got him strong enemies. To get rid of him they charged him with stealing dead bodies and dissecting them. Soon after, they stated that he had murdered a Spanish noble that he ha... ... middle of paper ... ...st person to dissect and examine the human brain. During a time when many people and physicians followed Galen's teachings blindly Vesalius made a great change in the medicine world. He went against many beliefs and looked towards facts.

“The pathologist that authorised the release of Petar’s body to be flown home to Britain said that the cause of death was a drugs overdose.”,(Bindel, Julie). Even though Julie Bindel’s son wasn’t a drug addict he got drugged and overtaken by people who wanted to take his organs. Even a wealthy person like Jacob lost his life to organ harvesting. Organ Harvesting has taken over a lot of the human trafficking and doesn’t look like it will end

After his release, Minor traveled to London where he shot a man dead due to his paranoid delusions. Minor was sentenced an insane asylum and he spent the majority of the next thirty-eight years reading and secretly volunteering for the Oxford English Dictionary. James Murray, editor of the dictionary, eventually discovered Minor’s identity and they soon became close friends. Although Minor religiously read and acquired new knowledge, his mental condi... ... middle of paper ... ... the Madman, I have learned that redemption is possible, even given the most hopeless circumstances. After Minor committed a horrible crime, he fell from grace and lost his integrity.

On the other hand, they are presented to us very differently, making one story very formulaic, and making the other very untypical of the murder mystery genre. Both Conan-Doyle and Dahl use various techniques to make their stories more interesting; for example, in Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter" the story revolves around the character of Mrs Mary Maloney, loving housewife and psychopathic killer. Normally, many stories concentrate on the detective or the victim, this story concentrates on the character of the murderer. This perspective helps with the telling of the murder, making it more unexpected. The story includes two major plot twists; the first being the murder itself, made unexpected by what we have seen of Mary Maloney's character, the second plot twist is at the end, where the detectives eat the murder weapon.

Others find it horrifying as they would be terrified of being buried alive and in those days it was quite common for medical students to dig up the corpses. This also ties in with Bierce’s definition of a grave, which I also found in ‘The Devil’s Dictionary.’ A grave is a place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.’ Reading these stories of Bierce’s I found to be very interesting and thoroughly enjoyed. I think it is clear that Bierce was trying to scare a lot of people and effectively did as the description, the language used, the mixed feelings it sends out and the context of his writing creates a lot of horror and suspense. Some may say that Bierce is sick others say that he is very intelligent. Bierce- brilliant or disturbed?