Infidelity In Hamlet And Lamb To The Slaughter

Consider the emotional damage if your boyfriend slept with your best friend of 20 years; how would you react? Infidelity in relationships is a major problem in today's society. It has many effects on people and causes them to do the unthinkable. In Hamlet and Lamb To The Slaughter, the authors use infidelity between men and women to comment on the morality of cheating on one’s significant other, suggesting that romantic commitment has always been a struggle for humanity.

In ¨Hamlet,¨ by Shakespeare, the author uses infidelity as a way to show romantic commitment between men and women has been a struggle for humanity. Throughout ¨Hamlet¨ monogamy is talked about in Hamlet's To Be Or Not To Be speech. Hamlet was dealing with a lot from the death of his dad and his mom moving on quickly.

Mary, who was the wife of Paul, was overjoyed for her husband to come home. When he gets home, he tells his wife he cheated on her and he wants a divorce. Pondering what he just said, Mary´s head is spinning and she grabs a frozen lamb leg and kills her husband. She stands on top of him thinking about what she just did but doesn't seem to panic. Covering up the murder weapon by cooking it into a stew for the police she gets away with her plan. Though Mary successfully killed Paul, he wouldn't be dead if he would've been monogamous towards Mary. This idea that monogamy isn't important to keep a relationship stable is a common theme, a theme that in a study they tried proving it wrong. As observed with multiple couples who kept their relationship monogamous, it was stated that ¨trust and respect in romantic relationships; commitment to romantic relationships; and outcomes of mismatched relationship expectations…enhances the effectiveness.¨ (Towner, Dolcini, Harper) Just as Paul wasn´t monogamous to Mary, people often today aren't monogamous towards their