Compare and Contrast Lamb to the Slaughter And The Speckled Band :: English Literature

Comp are and Contrast Lamb to the Slaughter And The Speckled BandAs Murder MysteriesWhen many pile think of a murder mystery, they think of a dark andstormy night, a large forbidding house, a gunshot heard by e actuallyone except seen by no one, and the phrases youre probably wondering why Icalled you all here, The butler did it, and of course notforgetting elementary, my dear Watson. In the end, the intelligentand very observant detective solves the case, and justice, sometimesthrough the courts and sometimes poetic is served.Lamb to the Slaughter and The Speckled Band are both stories basedaround a suspicious death. Roald Dahl wrote Lamb to the Slaughter in1954. Roald Dahl is famous for writing childrens stories, likeGeorges Marvellous Medicine and James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dalhalso writes stories for adults. They are usually about ordinary peopledoing funny things. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Speckled Bandin 1892. His stories are about the famous detective Sherlock H olmes.Before readings this story I knew that Sherlock Holmes was a famousdetective on the job(p) with fellow college Doctor Watson and Scotland Yard.Because of the times when they were written, the language is differentalso. Conan Doyle uses the Victorian way of life of language. His writing ismore complex. Sir Arthur Conan Doyles language is more descriptive.It takes him about half a paginate just to describe the setting of thestory. Conan Doyle sometimes uses phrases, which can now be quitetricky to understand such as knock you up. This is archaic language,which is not on a regular basis used nowadays. Roald Dahl uses short but sharpsentences, and writes as if he is talking to a friend.The two stories are both classed as murder mysteries, however whencomparing these two stories the styles of writing and the way in whichthe stories are presented is completely different. An example of thiswould be the chronological order of each of the stories. What I meanby this is the traditio nal order of murder mysteries would be body, amotive, a weapon, a death, a suspect, an alibi and detectives. BothLamb to the Slaughter and The Speckled Band have all of these andso are no exception to these guidelines. However, The SpeckledBand follows this order and is a very traditional murder mystery.Lamb to the Slaughter on the other hand does not follow theconventional style of murder mysteries and follows its own order. Thisorder is a motive, a weapon, a death, a killer, an alibi anddetectives. In changing the traditional order of murder mysteries I