Lamb To The Slaughter Presentation

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  1. Hello. My name is Dealer Show and I will be
  2. presenting on the story Lamb to the slaughter.
  3. First up, we have the summary.
  4. So this story follows Mary Moloney and her husband.
  5. One day she's waiting for her husband to get home
  6. from work.
  7. Once he is home, she does what every other housewife
  8. would do.
  9. She asked make dinner.
  10. When her husband refused, she was thoroughly confused.
  11. He then proceeded to ask her to sit and listen
  12. to something very important.
  13. We never learned, though what was said after this conversation,
  14. Mrs Maloney was in complete shock.
  15. She couldn't believe what he had just said.
  16. She was in such shock that she decided to take
  17. her mind off of it and make dinner.
  18. Mary went down to the basement to get me.
  19. The only thing they had was a leg of lamb,
  20. so she grabbed it in one upstairs.
  21. One she was back upstairs.
  22. She noticed her husband's back was to her.
  23. She then proceeded to strike her husband with the leg
  24. of lamb.
  25. Then he was dead on the floor and married.
  26. I knew she would get away with this.
  27. Next up is the topic, so the topic for my
  28. story, I decided to do role reversal.
  29. So throughout the story we see that the lows of
  30. each character very clear.
  31. Mary, is this a missive?
  32. One in this relationship, she does whatever her husband says
  33. to do while her husband is the dominant one.
  34. He controls the relationship, you know.
  35. He is in the police officer.
  36. He has a lot of control over her and her
  37. mind and what she thinks and what she does.
  38. She was even waiting for him to get home just
  39. so that they could go to dinner.
  40. But towards the end of the story, we see that
  41. these two roles are reversed.
  42. Mary became so infuriated amount of her husband she decided
  43. to take her power back, and by doing this, she
  44. killed her husband.
  45. After this, she then holds the power of being a
  46. woman because no one will suspect that she killed her
  47. husband. The role of women typically are that they're the
  48. housewife. They cook in the clean and they could do
  49. no wrong.
  50. And most women are not suspected as killers.
  51. The men are technically and normally suspected as the killer's
  52. first. The author did this to present how roles played
  53. a huge part in society and how used rolls, too,
  54. dictate how we act in society for my research.
  55. The definition of role reversal is a situation in which
  56. someone adopts a role, the reverse of that which they
  57. normally assume in relation to someone else who, typically Exum's,
  58. assumes their role in exchange.
  59. So role reversal is a very common thing to use
  60. in dramatic settings.
  61. Then he shows and TV shows, movies utilize this help
  62. dramatic, size the scene and make things a bit more
  63. dramatic and dark.
  64. So my connection to the story was that Mary Maloney
  65. was expected to be the typical housewife in the story
  66. after she killed her husband, though she is classified to
  67. the reader as murderer.
  68. But no one else knows that she's the murderer.
  69. Once the cops get to her house, though, she's seen
  70. with the victim, and his deemed automatically is innocent.
  71. Mary, originally though by killing her husband, took the role
  72. of the violent attacker, but she was able to simple
  73. sympathize with the police officers and make them see her
  74. innocents. Even though we has the reader.
  75. No, she is the one that is clearly the murderer.
  76. But the cops will never know because they wound up
  77. eating the evidence.
  78. So the take away from this so reading the story
  79. proves that the reversal of stereotypical roles could be a
  80. very common thing when we automatically push people into certain
  81. rules were doing more harm as a society than we
  82. are good.
  83. As a society, we should push ourselves to do different
  84. and non traditional rules.
  85. By doing this, we can ultimately make the world better.
  86. For example, women are typically the the housewife they're expected
  87. to say home, be the stay at home mom while
  88. then go out and they work constantly and herbal breadwinners
  89. in the family, and they make money for everyone.
  90. When I feel like into the eye society, we should
  91. push women, too, you know, go out into the workforce
  92. to do what they want for themselves, make money for
  93. themselves and some dads Do you want to stay at
  94. home and they want to be that Stay out here
  95. and I feel like as a society, we should push
  96. for that change and break the stereotypical roles that we
  97. give people and assuming people to be in starting positions
  98. can cause such danger.
  99. Just like in the story, the police officers assume that
  100. she's just a typical housewife.
  101. Since the police officers are doing this, they will most
  102. likely never arrest, married for killing her husband.
  103. It's something like this.
  104. What happened in today's society would continuously let killers roam
  105. free. What would forever be a danger to our society?
  106. Thank you so much for listening my presentation.
  107. I hope you enjoyed it.