An Essay on The Landlady by Roald Dahl

In The Hitch-Hiker, author Roald Dahl depicts an extremely menacing character in the form of a highway policeman, who pulls over the main character and his companion during their journey. As he is introduced and used in the story, the policeman comes across as steadily more frightening due to his interactions with the protagonists and Dahl's use of literary techniques to paint a better picture of who the officer is. Such techniques include an in-depth physical description of the man, the actions he is made to take, and the way that he is shown to speak.

The Civil War was the war fought between the United States of America and the Confederate states of America. Was this war inevitable? The Civil War was not certain to happen, and it could have easily been solved without a war. If people just compromised more and didn’t always need to get what they want, slavery could have been stopped or prevented, and the whole Civil War could have been prevented. Harriet Beecher Stowe is one person that you can say helped a lot. She wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin which helped people understand the seriousness of slavery. The Missouri Compromise didn’t help slavery as much, but it did keep it limited. This idea was great and kept both parts of the United States happy, but the South just wanted all slavery.

It was wrapped in paper, so she took off the paper and looked at again --- a leg of lamb” (Dahl 88). When she came back into the kitchen Mr. Maloney said that he was going out. She was so scared. “At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause, she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head. She might as well have hit him with a steel bar” (Dahl 88). Dahl also creates characters who appear harmless and kind so that later on in the story he can surprise the reader in another one of his stories “The Landlady”. In “The Landlady” Billy Weaver came to Bath looking for a place to stay. When he had asked someone if they knew a cheap place he can stay they told him to try the Bell and Dragon. On his way he notices a Bed and Breakfast. He looked in the window and spotted a dachshund and a parrot. When he went to ring the doorbell the lady answered very quickly. He noticed something peculiar, but still stayed there. When he was unpacked he went downstairs to sign the guestbook. There had only been two names. He had recognized both of them saying he saw them in a

I believe the thesis for Jane’s essay is the following, “As this essay will show, wild animals increasingly find suburban life in the United States to be attractive.” Which was located on the fourth paragraph of her introduction. In the introduction, she starts off by talking about how America has changed compared to decades ago. She speaks about how animals and humans are clashing with one another. She says it’s difficult to ignore this problem as there are stories about bears raiding trashcans and mountain lions showing up frequently that turns up in the press or on television. Her theory on this issue is because people are moving closer to the wilderness and are invading their land. Humans aren’t entirely the problem as she mention that

Throughout the course, we have studied many different works, including short stories, poetry, plays, novels, and speeches. Within these works, the theme oppression has had a recurring role. The poem “Oppression” by Langston Hughes, “Strangers that Came to Town” and A Doll’s House are all memorable pieces because each explores the theme oppression. In Langston Hughes “Oppression”, he talks about what if people’s rights were taken from them, the rights that make them human. In the short story “Strangers that Came to Town” it shows the racism against a poor immigrant family who move to a new place. In A Doll’s House, the protagonist of the story is controlled by her husband.

The First point is Roald Dahl takes normal subjects and makes them creepy. Such as the Landlady. I know this because it is a seven-teen year old looking for a place to stay for a night or two when he see’s a bed and breakfast, it sounds normal then when he meets the lady that runs the bed and breakfast she is a weird lady that kills the people that stay there and then stuffs them and her pets that die. I also know he does this because in the story Lamb to the Slaughter he wrote about how a stay at home wife waits for her husband to get home from work and they talk for a little bit and then she says she is going to get meat down in the basement for dinner, and when she comes up she uses it as a weapon to kill her husband with the lamb she brought up.

     Most of us live a life where we do what we want and when we want without anyone telling us how to live our lives. This wasn’t the case in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, where he illustrates to us how one woman lives a life through her father and husband. Throughout the play we see how a once childish like woman gains her independence and a life of her own. Ibsen shows us a very realistic play that demonstrates how on the outside Nora and Torvald seem to have it all. While in reality their life together is simply empty until Nora stands up for herself and starts to build her own life.

Roald Dahl the author of the landlady wrote a realistic fiction short story about a tennager named Billy. He went to a new town called bath and met an old lady or the landlady. She let Billy stay at her “hotel” the bed and breakfast. When really she is just going to poison and kill Billy later on. By using sensory details and mystery Roald Dahl teaches us the lesson not to trust without giving thought.

In the story "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl I thought the movie was the most terrifying. A main part in why I thought the movie was most terrifying was because of the music, it was very suspicious. Also, the things the landlady said, for example "Everything is always ready day and night in this house just on the off-chance that an acceptable young gentleman will come along. " she seemed too friendly and just odd about things. In the movie, when she brought out the tea, it seemed more forcing for him to drink it, because she mentioned it to him several times and he declined and finally she just made some tea and brought it out to him, which if she brought that tea to me after I had said no thank you I most likely wouldn't have drank it and got

Beware of the Dog, by Roald Dahl, is about a World War II british pilot that loses his leg after his plane was shot at. He ends up falling, purposely, out of the plane and landed in a hospital in Brighton, that was what he was told. While in the hospital he hears two JU-88’s. When he told the nurse, the nurse just told him that he was hearing things. Also in the hospital, the nurse comments on how hard the water is. Having stayed in Brighton, the pilot thought this was weird because the water was so soft in Brighton that you had to take two showers. When the pilot woke up the next morning, he crawled to the window. Looking out the window he saw a sign that said “Beware of the Dog” in French. Knowing that a part of France was taken over by

Throughout a person’s life, he or she must repeatedly undergo situations that require the choice between growth or safety. This is precisely the issue that the possible protagonist, Nora, of A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen is presented with. Almost every major character in the play treats Nora as a child, and so she acts like one. However, her adult side peeks through when she forges her deceased father’s signature to save her husband, Torvald’s, life. Nora feels the need for this child and real self because the social issues of gender and marriage equality in 19th century Norway; these conditions invite sympathetic feelings for her character.

By exemplifying the oppressive situation and diminished value of women in the 1800s of Victorian society in the captivating play A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen portrays the life of a woman, whose entire existence is a build of societal guidelines, coming to the realization that her life is a pretense, propelling her into rebellion. Nora, a defiant wife, mother, and daughter of Victorian society, who is reduced to a mere plaything, struggles against the unjust constraints of social conformity, ultimately rejecting her oppressive marriage and life, freeing herself from the norms of society. Throughout the play, Nora rebels against the inequitable constraints of society and her oppressive husband in symbolic ways including, the things she says, her neurotic habits of behavior,

Roald Dahl has successfully presented creepy moments and ideas in his writing by the very uncommon, but realistic scenarios the characters are put in, word choice, and character development. The author gives very little background information at the beginning of the story causing the reader to be surprised with how the characters develop throughout the story.

“Well we can’t let you do that,” the goblin said as it snached the book.

After stoking the fire, she put a few slices of bacon in a frying pan and set it on the grate above the fire then stepped outside the old, log cabin to go to the toilet. Taking a deep breath of the cool, fresh mountain air, Charity then stretched her back, leaning from side to side to remove the stiffness she felt from sleeping in her not so comfortable bed. Her cot consisted of a straw-ticked mattress atop a wooden bunk that seemed to become flatter each year as she grew older. Her grandfather had built the log cabin some fifty-odd years earlier as a wedding gift for her grandmother, Mi’ thebe. The bunk and mattress had been made for the girl-child that came along some fifteen years after they wed.