“It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody” - Abdullah ll of Jordan. This is shown throughout both texts. In the 'Landlady ', Billy is looking for someplace to stay the night. Billy chooses to stay at a seemingly innocent and sweet old lady’s house. After staying over for a couple of hours the old lady invites him to drink tea. While drinking tea, Billy slowly starts to notice and understand what kind of a person this lady is. What he does not know is that it is laced with poison. “Lamb to the Slaughter” also by Roald Dahl is centered around the brutal murder of Patrick Maloney by his once loving wife Mary, The police come through and have no suspicion of Mary as she is an innocent lady and the wife of the now dead police officer. In the short story’s “Landlady” and “Lamb to the Slaughter” both by Roald Dahl, Dahl shows why not to underestimate people and what they can do because it can lead to consequences. In “Lamb to the Slaughter" Dahl does this using Irony, where in “Landlady” he does this using Foreshadowing.
Both stories poetry the idea of not underestimating someone of what they can do, “Lamb to the Slaughter '' follows a once loving wife given terrible news by her husband, confused and angry she kills her husband using a leg of lamb.
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She does this to cover up her story as if she wasn't there during the murder. When the police officers come-over they overlook the wife as she is a girl and also the wife of the now dead police officer, In “Landlady'' We follow Billy who is trying to find someplace to stay the night, while walking to a suggested Bell and Dragon hotel he stumbles upon a house offering a bed to sleep in and breakfast. He states seeing a beautiful dog and sees that as a green flag. He goes in and feels the eerie feeling of emptiness. He also notices two familiar-like names written down in the book but he can't remember what significance they had, however he is reassured by the old lady as being harmless and the