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Compare And Contrast Lamb To The Slaughter

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Did you ever want someone to disappear? In the stories Tale Tale Heart and Lamb to the Slaughter, both protagonists are able to make someone disappear through murder. Both stories are similar in many ways, but also have many differences . Tale tale Heart and lamb to the slaughter are similar because they have common themes, as well as their intentions to kill, but their differences are. Tale Tale Heart is about a man with mental health problems. In the story the man was really friends with an old guy but he was terrified of the old man’s eye. But one night the man started stalking him for days while the old man slept. But one night he decided to end with the old man and flipped the bed and killed him , the neighbors called the police because they heard screams , the man was …show more content…

in this story Ms.maloney and Mr.maloney are having problems in their marriage and Mr maloney wants to divorce Ms maloney so Ms maloney decides to kill Mr maloney and then call the police and lie about what happened and after they still do not know who was that killed mr maloney. The central themes of the story is gender & marriage , betrayal and power these themes also demonstrate trough character vs self character vs character and character vs society Gender & marriage is demonstrated by how Ms maloney receives Mr maloney and how she betrayed her husband by killing him and how he betrayed Ms maloney by cheating on her . and power women weren't really powerful before as men thought because they were women and they were supposed to stay at home. Both stories have things in common: because in lamb to the slaughter she killed her husband because of a porpoise and in the tale heart the man killed the old man because of a purpose to. But both of the stories have different things in common: how Ms Maloney was not suspected and did not say anything about what she did to her husband and in tale tale heart the man admitted that he killed the old

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