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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 Checklist • Lamb to the Slaughter Reading • The three types of irony • Alfred Hitchcock’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”
Irony • Irony in the movies … Shrek 2 and Mean Girls
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
Isn’t it ironic? • Listen to Ironic by Alanis Morissette • Does the song depict true irony?
Is it really 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 lotterytickets. 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 DeadManWalking 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 Slaughter • Alfred Hitchcock’s Lamb to the Slaughter • Create a comparison chart between the Roald Dahl’s short story and Alfred Hitchcock’s video version • Example…
Mary Maloney’s identity changes throughout the story. What are her two identities? When does she change from one to the other? Mary Maloney’s Identity
Lamb to the Slaughter • Complete the comprehension questions for “Lamb to the Slaughter”
