The story I have chosen is from Lamb to the slaughter, written by Roald Dahl in 1953. So the conflict in the story is an external conflict between Mary ( the protagonist ) and her conflict is external and between her and her husband ( The first antagonist ), who divorces Mary, resulting in Mary killing her husband. The other conflict is the conflict of Mary fighting the police, ( the next antagonist ) and if she can get away with the murder of her husband. So, the conflict is external because Mary doesn’t have any internal conflict on what she does, and the whole story is her journey of fighting her world. Also, I believe the theme is not judging a book by its cover, since everyone suspects Mary to be an ordinary pregnant housewife only staying in the house and serving her husband ( the status quo at the time ) but Mary secretly is a psychopath. I also chose a photo of a drawing of Mary looking creepily with a leg of lamb with hollow eyes and cracking skin because I thought it would go with the words tired darling empty inside, to express how people see Mary as just a suburban, submissive housewife, but inside shes kinda a psychopath. The words also go with Patrick who is kind of empty inside since he feels no passion or love for Mary. I also thought that the photo would show how Mary is just seen by the police as an ordinary housewife when they don’t suspect her at all except a few parts to be the murder. This is since they don’t expect a woman to be able to kill a man with brute force. For example, when they talk to Mary about the murder weapon, they say “It’s the old story,” he said. “Get the weapon, and you’ve got the man.” showing how they don’t expect the murder to be Mary, a woman, but they shouldn’t see Mary as a stereotype, but the person she is.

 

Hyperlink

https://clinicalpsychologyashoka.blogspot.com/2018/12/mary-maloney-mentally-ill-or-just-very.html

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/postwarera/1950s-america/a/women-in-the-1950s