Lamb To The Slaughter Analysis

After reading and writing the three stories, articles, and videos I learned that they all share a common central idea. All three stories, articles, and videos share one central idea which is that all the wives killed their husbands. To explain my point, I'm going to talk about the central idea of lamb to the slaughter, 48 hours video, and the daily mail article.

First of all, in the story of lamb to the slaughter the husband tells his wife that he doesn't want to be with her which eventually leads her to kill him. After the husband told her that he doesn't want to be with her anymore "she couldn't feel anything at all- except a slight nausea and a desire to vomit". "Everything was automatic now-down the steps to the cellar, the light switch,

In the article it stated that "she stabbed her boyfriend with the five-and-a-half-inch stiletto heel of her shoe, striking him at least 25 times in the face and head". "Trujillo's attorney, Jack Carroll, asked jurors to find that his client acted in the heat of sudden passion, which would limit her sentence to between two and 20 years". "Carroll asked jurors to give her a two-year sentence". "Trujillo's attorneys said Andersson attacked her and she defended herself with the only weapon she had available, her shoe". "I became frightened, I did fear for my life, I felt he lost it, she said, adding that she started striking him with the shoe anywhere she could". "Trujillo said that at first she hit him on his back and on his arms, then on his head as a last resort. ‘I had no idea I was hurting him that badly,’ she said. ‘I reached over and said, “Oh God, what happened?” I reached over and my hands were full of blood.’ "She said she had been sexually assaulted by her first husband and told jurors that another boyfriend had kicked her in the stomach when she was pregnant, resulting in a miscarriage". After also hearing Andersson's family and friends, the jury decided to sentence her for life in prison after rejecting her crime-of-passion