Compare the two short stories, 'The Signalman' by Charles Dickens and 'Lamb to the Slaughter' by Roald Dahl.
At the beginning of both stories there is a normal sort of mood for instance in Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary is sitting down sowing waiting for her husband and in The Signalman the railway worker is going about his usual day. Some phrases that made me think that it was a normal mood from Lamb to the Slaughter were 'Hullo, Darling', 'Tired, darling' and 'Darling, shall I get your slippers'. There is a neutral sort of effect on the reader upon the opening of the book.
Lamb to the Slaughter is set in the past at Mary and Patrick Maloneys house and The Signalman is set in and around a deep railway cutting during the 19th century. There aren't really any similarities between the two stories apart from the fact they are both set in the past.
The theme of Lamb to the Slaughter is a murder-revenge theme were a wife gets revenge on her husband by killing him.
At the beginning of both stories there is a normal sort of mood for instance in Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary is sitting down sowing waiting for her husband and in The Signalman the railway worker is going about his usual day. Some phrases that made me think that it was a normal mood from Lamb to the Slaughter were 'Hullo, Darling', 'Tired, darling' and 'Darling, shall I get your slippers'. There is a neutral sort of effect on the reader upon the opening of the book.
Lamb to the Slaughter is set in the past at Mary and Patrick Maloneys house and The Signalman is set in and around a deep railway cutting during the 19th century. There aren't really any similarities between the two stories apart from the fact they are both set in the past.
The theme of Lamb to the Slaughter is a murder-revenge theme were a wife gets revenge on her husband by killing him.