Minds-on! Minds-on!

The perfect murder The perfect murder a) It should be easy to arrange. ______

b) It should leave no clues. ______

c) There should be no noise. ______

d) It should take place in a lonely, isolated place. ______

e) It should be cheap. ______

f) No violence should be necessary. ______

g) It should look like an accident. ______

h) It should be quick. ______

i) The murderer should have a good alibi. ______

Today’s ChecklistToday’s ChecklistLamb to the Slaughter ReadingThe three types of irony Alfred Hitchcock’s “Lamb to the

Slaughter”

Irony Irony Irony in the movies … Shrek 2

and Mean Girls

The three types of irony The three types of irony Dramatic irony - A situation in

which the audience knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know

Example - Romeo finds Juliet in a drugged sleep. He assumes her to be dead and kills himself. Upon awakening to find her dead lover beside her, Juliet then kills herself.

Verbal irony - A contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is meant

Example - “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man". - Julius Caesar

Note: This is not the same literary device as an oxymoron!

Situational irony - A contradiction of expectation between what might be expected and what actually occurs often connected to a fatalistic or pessimistic view of life

Example – Water, water, every where,And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink

Irony in “Lamb to the Irony in “Lamb to the Slaughter”Slaughter”Type of irony Example

Isn’t it ironic? Isn’t it ironic? Listen to Ironic by Alanis

MorissetteDoes the song depict true irony?

Is it Is it really really ironic? ironic? An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died

the next day... of chronic emphysema from inhalation of the latex particles scratched off decades' worth of lottery tickets. 

A black fly in your Chardonnay... poured to celebrate the successful fumigation of your recently purchased vineyard in southern France. 

A death row pardon two minutes too late... because the governor was too busy watching Dead Man Walking to grant clemency any earlier. 

Rain on your wedding day... to Ra, the Egyptian sun-god. 

A free ride when you've already paid... all of your money to the good-natured cab driver when you mistook him for a mugger. 

Lamb to the SlaughterAlfred Hitchcock’s Lamb to the

SlaughterCreate a comparison chart

between the Roald Dahl’s short story and Alfred Hitchcock’s video version

Example…

Comparison chart

Movie Short story

Patrick’s secret

Mary at the store

The detectives

Other details

Mary Maloney’s IdentityMary Maloney’s

identity changes throughout the story.

What are her two identities?

When does she change from one to the other?

Lamb to the SlaughterComplete the comprehension

questions for “Lamb to the Slaughter”