Comparing Lamb To The Slaughter By Edgar Allan Poe

Liam Boyle Miss Toone Language Arts, 8B Per. 5 7 March 2024 The Brutal Secrets The brutal secrets were awful, but one was worse than the other. The “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl is a fictional horror, in the story there is a wife and a husband and the husband got home from work and greeted his wife, he then sat down and drank many drinks of alcohol and other drinks like that. Then he finally confesses that he was gonna leave her, she acted like nothing happened for a bit, then finally she was so mad she grabbed the lamb and hit her husband on the head, left to the grocery store to get allies and came back and called the cops. They arrived and ate the lamb she used and after that she got away. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

The opposition may claim that this is worse but their wrong, their wrong because age will only slightly change how bad the murder was, the old man could’ve lived for ten more years and the husband could’ve died within a year. Moreover, suffocating is much worse than dying instantly or old age combined (Poe 78, Dahl 2). Or even how “Tell-Tale Heart” murder was planned and the other wasn’t makes it clear that “Tell-Tale Heart” is more nasty (Poe 78, Dahl 2). Altogether, some may argue that “Lamb to Slaughter” is worse, but it’s clear that “Tell-Tale Heart” is just enough. Given the evidence, the “Tell-Tale Heart” murder is clearly worse than “Lamb to the Slaughter.” Planning a murder is much worse than no plan, and “Tell-Tale Heart” was planned while “Lamb to the Slaughter” wasn’t planned. Also, a murder has to have some kind of motive, but the only motive in “Tell-Tale Heart” was his eye and how it annoyed him while in the other story her husband was going to leave her. Next is that one had to suffocate and one died instantly, so it makes it a much worse kill. In all, both of these stories are awful, but “Tell-Tale Heart" is