Characther Essay for Lamb to the Slaughter
Characterization, a method that an author chooses to develop his/her character, is a very important element in a story. In "Lamb to the Slaughter," Roald Dahl, effectively develops the protagonist both directly and indirectly; however, the use of indirect characterization is more dominant because it reveals her actions and how she deals with her conflict, her words, and creating a dynamic character with her words, and her personality. First, she seems like a typical house-wife longing for her husband to return, but something is odd about this particular day; "There was a slow smiling air about her, and about everything she did...was curiously tranquil...the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger, and darker than before" (108). It was almost as if she is expecting something unusual to happen, and that she is preparing for that specific moment. In addition, her actions change from being a wife-pleasing-husband,
Also, in the beginning of the story she is described as a inoffensive, harmless person, but immediately after her husband reveals his burden, she becomes unstable and almost naturally she hits her husband. When the police arrived she trying to hide evidence, asks for her husband's whiskey, "'Jack. simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb. Finally, her personality creates in her a dynamic characterization, and as the reader observes it when she is talking to the shopkeeper, by saying something very odd: "'I got a nice leg of lamb from the freezer.
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