MY POSITION PAPER

LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
 
It was quite difficult for me to write the position paper. Especially while developing the thesis statement. However, after doing some reading I managed to finish my writing.  I chose "Lamb To The Slaughter" as my topic. ‘Lamb to the Slaughter,’’ reflect aspects of human perversity, cruelty, and violence. ‘‘Lamb to the Slaughter’’ opens with Mary Maloney, the pregnant, doting wife of a policeman waiting for her husband to come home from work. When he does so, he makes an abrupt but unspecified statement to Mary, the upshot of which is that he intends to leave her. Her connubial complacency shattered by this revelation, Mary crushes her husband’s skull with a frozen leg of lamb and then arranges an alibi. Therefore i personally feel that Mrs Mary Malloney’s true love to her husband hides her duplicity and deceitfulness. There are some parts in the story which reveals her those personalities. Mary made an intelligent conversation with the grocer. In between their conversation, she told him that her husband Patrick is at home and didn’t want to go out that night as he is too tired. So she decided to prepare supper for him and now here to buy some vegetables for that. Mary managed to have quite a long and cheerful conversation with the grocer so that he would quite clearly remember Mary’s visit. She expects the grocer to tell the detectives that Mary was in a normal condition and acted naturally at the grocery. Her conversation with the grocer shows her personality of duplicity because her intention was not to have a cheerful conversation but to deceive the grocer and of course the detectives and avoid them from suspecting her for the murder. Deceitfulness found in Mary when she invites the detectives to have some drink in order to reduce their tiredness. All the detectives one by one were persuaded to have some drink and it end up all the detectives standing with glasses in their hand without searching for the evidence and consoling Mary for the incident happened. Mary insisted them to have the cooked lamb which was made for her husband so that she could destroy the evidence. Through this, we can see that Mary gets away easily from danger and despair by using deceitful and convincing words.