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Do you think Mary Maloney is right in what she does in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl?

It is up to you how you want to answer this question.  My opinion is not any more correct than your opinion.  The important thing will be to defend your answer.  


No, I do not think that Mary Maloney was right or justified in what she did.  She killed her husband.  Whether it was intentional or not does not change the fact that she smashed her husband's skull in by smacking him in the head with a blunt object.   She killed her husband plain and simple.  In addition to killing her husband, she deviously found a way to get away with the crime.   Mary figured out a way to give herself an alibi for the crime, and she even managed to destroy the murder weapon when she had the police officers eat it.  I understand that Mary was attempting to guard her unborn child, but that doesn't mean she has a free pass on killing people.  

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