First, the title itself is a metaphor. On one hand, it relates to Patrick Maloney, who becomes a lamb to the slaughter when he is killed by his wife. Secondly, Dahl uses a metaphor to emphasize Mary’s love and devotion toward her husband.

Roald Dahl has used verbal irony, dramatic irony and situational irony in “Lamb to the Slaughter. Dramatic irony occurs because the reader knows that the leg of lamb was used as a murder weapon, but the police officers unknowingly eat the evidence when the wife serves them the roast leg of lamb to them.

The most important metaphor in the story is the title itself. Mary Maloney is the “lamb to the slaughter”: an innocent person who is easily beaten down by the words of her husband Patrick when he threatens to leave her. Her husband could also be the lamb, as he is the one who is murdered or “slaughtered”.

Her eyes were as blue as the sky and like huge, round sapphires when she smiled. Personification is giving human qualities to any inanimate object. Basically, it’s making the object like a “person”. The wind whispered his name and tortured her with his memory.

In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” we can find an example of foreshadowing after Mary has murdered Patrick and is sitting in front of the mirror, trying to regain her composure: “The smile was rather peculiar. She tried again… That was better.

Moral Values The moral value that contained in this story is we should think twice before doing something. In this story, without thinking wisely about the consequence she might face, Mary kills her husband. After than, she realizes that she must hide the crime not so much for her own sake but for her unborn babys.

‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ is told by an outside narrator from a limited third person perspective. Dahl chooses to only reveal what Mary Maloney is aware of.

The story of “Lamb To the Slaughter” is told in a third-person view from a narrator. The author’s purpose of writing this story is for entertainment purposes for the reader.

The leg of lamb is a symbol of revenge in Dahl’s short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter”. The weapon used to commit murder is the frozen leg of lamb which the police officers later consume. The husband has obviously decided that he is not content with his marriage and feels it is time to move on.

In Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary kills Patrick with a leg of lamb because it was the first weapon at hand when her hurt and rage over his betrayal…

In Conclusion… – The symbol of the story is the leg of lamb which represented Mary Maloney’s weak status. – The leg of lamb is eaten (which is why is was initially slaughtered) and all evidence of her weakness is destroyed.

The drink is an element of foreshadowing; we know that he isn’t himself, and that something bad is going to happen. Mary herself senses it, simply through the way that he drinks. And sure enough, his drinking is just a preface to his betrayal.

Eventually the reader will realize that it is her mothering that bothers Patrick and explains why he is drinking more than usual. He is getting ready to drop a bomb on her. He wants a divorce. He is tired of this marriage, but he feels guilty, especially since she is six months pregnant.

In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” Mary’s behavior at the grocery store contradicts what happens earlier in that her behavior in the store is an act she rehearses before she leaves the house, whereas earlier in the story, especially when she hit her husband on the head with the frozen leg of lamb, she was behaving without …