Sunday, August 23, 2015

Explain black humour and dramatic irony with examples from the story "Lamb to the Slaughter"? How would you react in situations similar to that of...

Well, the end of the story is the biggest instance of
black humor when she serves the policemen the murder weapon for dinner (the leg of lamb
with which, while frozen, she hit her husband over the head and killed him). That is
also dramatic irony because her husband himself was a policeman, and you would think
that she would be the primary suspect, like it would happen in a real situation where
there are no other witnesses that could appeal to the
contrary.


In a situation similar to the story I would think
that she snapped. She was pregnant, happy to be married, and he was totally nonchalant
about how told her that he was leaving her. He would have changed her life by turning it
upside down. I think I would have snapped too. And blame it on
hormones.

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