Similarities between Way up to heaven and Lamp to the slaughter
Well, basically there is one most common similarities between these two stories: the wives killed their husband. This is also the main point of the stories. Secondly, after the wives killed their husbands , they remained very calm, so calm as if the murder did not happen or so calm as if they did not know their husbands were killed. Thirdly, the wives in both of the stories were very submissive to their husbands. They love them, cared them without complaints and always listened to their husbands.Fourthly, both of the husbands in the stories all start to ''hate'' their wives. The husband in ''Way up to heaven'' hate his wive's pathological fear of being late. The husband in ''Lamb to the slaughter'' starts to love other women and wanted to leave his wive. So both of them thinks their wives are getting on the nerves. Lastly, both of the husbands were killed and the truth was never told.
Differences between Way up to heaven and Lamp to the slaughter
Well, the differences between the two stories are lesser than the similarities. Firstly, the ways the husbands are killed are different. The wive killed her husband using a lamb's leg which she just took out from the freezer.(Lamb to the slaughter). On the other hand, the wive purposely starved her husband to death by making him trapped in the lift.( Way up to heaven) Secondly, the husband in Lamb to the slaughter died instantly while the husband in Way up to heaven died over a period of time. Lastly, the wive in Lamb to the slaughter immediately dialed the police after she had killed her husband and went to bought some meat to make sure that everything was like as if she did not know about the murder. While on the other hand, the wive in Way up to heaven did not killed him,although she know that her husband was going to die, and when she came back from her visit to her daughter, she went back to her house and smelled something unpleasant. The lift was spoiled and she knew her husband died in there. To make sure no one is suspicious of her, she called for repair so that people would believe her that she did not kill her husband. However, she never dialed for the police.
Well, i prefer Way up to heaven because the story is very interesting and i ''like'' the way the wive killed her husband. The story climax was also very interesting.
2 comments:
I agree with what you what said about the similarities and differences but i disagree with what you said was the main point of the story.In my point of view, i feel that the main oint of the story is not about te wife killing the husband but more of the nasty twist of the character's personalities.
I agree with your post except the part where you mentioned that the wives did not know that their husbands died. If you were refering to The Way up to Heaven, Mrs Foster did know that her husband was trapped in the lift. She heard the sound of the lift getting stuck.
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