Lamb to the Slaughter- characters and irony – Flashcards
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The authors method for creating/reveling a character. Ways to do this personality traits, speech, actions, physical appearance, reactions, interests, beliefs/opinions, others opinions of the character, interactions, background history.
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Characterization
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Defined as the contrast between what is expected or what appears to be and what actually is.
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Irony
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The events of the story are the opposite of what the audience expects. Ex:Sixth Sense
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Situational Irony
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when words seem to mean one thing, but actually mean something quiet different. Ex. The Giver, "Released"
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Verbal Irony
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When the characters think one thing to be true, but the audience knows something else to be true. this creates interests and tension in a story or play. Ex. Romeo & Juliet.
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Dramatic Irony
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-Stay at home wife -Lives to please her husband -6 months pregnate -She is always sewing -"Like the perfect Wife" -Madly in love, she is like a sunbather soaking up his manliness and love. -The Perfect Couple -She becomes like a robot and walks to get the lamb and bangs it over her husbands head. -She gets alibi by going to the grocery store.
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Mary Maloney Characterization
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-Senior Police officer -Refuses her offer to make him dinner -Punctual as always -On Thursdays, they eat out -He is behaving unusual...he gulps his first drink then makes himself another one, much stronger. -There is something that Mr. Maloney needs to tell his wife, and he is drinking in order to calm his nerves. -He is leaving her
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Patrick Maloney Characterization
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Type of Irony: Situational Irony Explanation: The audience knows that Marry loves her husband and never expected she would have killed her husband. Mary was characterized as a loving wife never expected to kill.
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"At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head."
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Type of Irony: Dramatic Irony Explanation: The audience knows that she killed him and he is not tired, she just wants an alibi.
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"'Patrick's decided he's tired and he doesn't want to eat out tonight,' she told him. 'We usually go out Thursdays, you know, and now he's caught me without any vegetables in the house.'"
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Type of Irony: Dramatic Irony Explanation: We know that she has the lamb leg and it is cooking in the oven. It is in the oven so she can destroy the evidence.
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"'No, I've got meat, thanks. I got a nice leg of lamb in the freezer.'"
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Type of Irony: Dramatic Irony Explanation: We know she only went to the grocer to create an alibi, the meat is in the oven.
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"She told how she'd put the meat in the oven - 'it's there now, cooking' - and how she'd slipped out to the grocer for vegetables, and come back to find him lying on the floor."
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Type of Irony: Dramatic Irony Explanation: We know it is a leg of lamb not the large piece of metal.
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"Her husband, he told her, had been killed by a blow on the back of the head administered with a heavy blunt instrument, almost certainly a large piece of metal."
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Type of Irony: Dramatic Irony Explanation: The Police Officers are assuming that it is a man, not a women and they eat the weapon.
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"'It's the old story,' he said. 'Get the weapon and you've got the man.'"
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Type of Irony: Verbal Irony Explanation: Marry is saying it is a favor for her but she means that she wants them to get rid of the evidence, which by eating the lamb.
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"'Please eat it. Personally I couldn't touch a thing, certainly not what's been in the house when he was here. But it's all right for you. It'd be a favor to me if you'd eat it up."
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Type of Irony: Dramatic Irony Explanation: We know the police officers are doing her a favor because she wants to get rid of the evidence, and the guy who is saying this doesn't know that.
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"'She wants us to finish it. She said so. Be doing her a favor.'"
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Type of Irony: Dramatic Irony Explanation: We know she is not going to carry it. And they were right because she doesn't carry it for long she cooks it in the oven.
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"'Whoever done it, they're not going to be carrying a thing like that around with them longer than they need."
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Type of Irony: Dramatic Irony Explanation: The weapon is actually is in the premises and right under their noses: they are eating the evidence.
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"'Personally, I think it's right here on the premises.''Probably right under our very noses.'"
