'Comparison of ‘The Speckled Band’ and ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ Essay\r'

'In this essay I will be canvas the 2 stories ‘The mottle Band’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and ‘ de best to the debacle’ by Roald dhal.\r\n‘The stipple Band’ was indite in 1892.This was in The Victorian Period when concourse had truly little faith in the jurisprudence force and Conan Doyle needed to cr expele a Detective who endlessly got everything right so that the public straggleed to believe the legal philosophy could actually number it right. It was first published in a magazine called â€Å"The Strand” in each week episodes so to a certain extent he needed to keep his ratifiers interested as wellhead which is why the plot is so complicated. The plot is near a charr called Helen Stoner who is going to get married, except someone or something murders her sister who a ilk was supposed to get married. Helen Stoner goes to see protease inhibitor Holmes to see if he can support exculpate the crime. The plot is ful l of twists and red herrings that is up to the endorser to try and solve as they go along exclusively as always intelligence agent Holmes flora out the significance of everything and solves the crime.\r\n‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ was pen in 1954by Roald Dahl. This fabrication was also published in a magazine called â€Å"Harpers” b bely was written to be read in one go so it does not make believe the complicated layout of Conan Doyles legend. Instead the reader knows exactly what is going on form the start of the story and the ending is scandaliseing and designed to keep and horrify. It was written by Dahl to show how women at the m were a lot more efficacious than the men gave them credit for and should be respected more than being at home , pregnant.\r\nThe plot is to the highest degree a modern couple that seem to be falling out. bloody shame Maloney is the perfect 1950’s homemaker who makes dinner and cleans, still one day when her econ omize (Patrick Maloney) comes home from work they have an argument. bloody shame loses her passion with Patrick and hits him over the head with a leg of deliver and accidentally kills him. In a panic she phones the law of nature and puts the leg of lamb in the oven to cook for dinner. When the guard arrive she persuades them to eat the lamb because it would be a waste of food. In the end the police eat the evidence and Mary didn’t get caught. Dahl uses comic irony at the end to tie the reader as Mary sits there express thumbings about what she has wear thine; you don’t ideate her to do this as a middle score housewife.\r\nThe times that these stories be execute in are both very different. deal travel, in ‘The Speckled Band’. They travel by horse and haul but in ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ trinity use car or foot comely similar in the modern day. For communication the hoi polloi in 1892 would have to write or go and see the person they wanted to talk to but in 1954 they would have used the telephone. Also in 1892 they did not have much electricity so they used candles instead of light, whereas in 1954 they had lots of electricity. In 1892 the women would have worn veils and long skirts but in 1954 they would have they would have worn jeans, t-shirt etc. in 1892 rich families would lived in large houses with servants but in the modern day most families are middle classed and do not have the coin for servants etc. When there was an enquiry in 1892 the investigators would have had to use their own knowledge to solve crimes but in 1954 they would use fingerprints, evidence etc to solve the crimes.\r\nThe row used in ‘The Speckled Band’ was anile fashioned and very formal like when Sherlock Holmes says â€Å"Very sorry to knock you up Watson, ” give tongue to he, â€Å"but it’s the honey oil lot this morning.” He also says things like â€Å"Mrs Hudson has been knocked up, she reported upon me, and I on you.” This isn’t the kind of language we would use in the modern day and proves that it is set in 1892.\r\n as yet in ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ there was a lot of slang and it was not as formal. Like when Mary says â€Å"Hullo darling.” And ” Hullo Sam” to the grocer. so far the way she speaks to Sam the grocer proves it was set in the 1950’s and not in each other time because we would not know the person in the inlet shops first name today but it was common in the 1950’s to be friendly with them.\r\nIn ‘The Speckled Band’ Sherlock Holmes is the main character. He is a famous detective and solves difficult cases. Conan Doyle invented him because race in the Victorian times were fed with the circumstance that the police could not solve any crimes and he wanted a character that always got everything right. further in ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ there were police who are easily at solving cases but wouldn’t be able to solve them without any evidence and they are very arrogant and work on Mary as a silly woman when in fact she is the person who has tricked them and been the murderer. Dahl does this to shock his readers and make it even more dramatic which Conan Doyle would not want to do because they needed to trust their detective!\r\nIn ‘The Speckled Band’ the killer was a snake that had been hypnotised by Helen Stoner’s stepfather, but all the way through the story he is a suspect and he acts suspiciously like when Helen goes to visit Sherlock Holmes to tell him what has been going on, shortly subsequently she leaves her stepfather came in asking if she has been here. It seemed like he had something to hide, but in the end it had cipher to do with him.\r\nIn ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ Mary seems like a nice, gentle woman who feels that she has to help out. Like when she says,\r\nâ€Å"Darling, shall I get your slippers?” but after the police eat the evidence she laughs so I infer he whole issue hade make her go a bit insane. At the first-class honours degree of the story you didn’t enquire it from her because she just seems like a normal, average wife like when it say about ‘She took his coat and hung it in the closet.’ and when it said ‘She was sit down back again in her chair with the sewing.’ The moving-picture show seems too realistic for something bad to happen.\r\nIn ‘The Speckled Band’ the victim was Helen Stoner’s sister because there was zero anyone could do to save her; this make the readers feel very sorry for her. The beside victim was Helen Stoner and because nobody knew what killed her sister it seemed that she needed protection. I would expect someone like her to be the next victim because she is a woman who has done nothing wrong and is innocent. I don’t cogitate her or her sister deserved to be the victims because they are both just happy and normal people.\r\nIn ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ you don’t feel sorry for Patrick because he is being horrible to Mary and you feel automatically on her side from the beginning. I think he deserved to be hard-pressed but not killed because they are just having a falling out.\r\n‘The Speckled Band’ is set in Stoke Moran, which is Helen’s stepfather house. Sherlock Holmes is investigating the house. I think it is a good setting for a murder to take place and because it’s a very big house which makes it creepier for the reader because you don’t know what is doing the killings.\r\n‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ is set in Mary Maloney’s house. I think the way the author has described it makes it sound very realistic, like when he says,\r\nâ€Å"The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight.” This makes the room sound cosy and like it rea lly exists. You can really picture the scenery. I also think it’s a good setting for a murder because you can call back it happening there. I think I would expect it because so many crimes in real purport have been taken place in houses.\r\n come out of the closet of the two stories I preferred ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ because it is easier to understand and keeps you interested all the way though with the description it uses. I disliked the other story because the speaking parts dragged on to long and I did really just want to get on and find out what happens.\r\n'