Compare Dickens' 'The Signalman' to Dahl's 'Lambs to the Slaughter' Despite the time passed between the writing of Dickens' 'The Signalman' and Dahl's 'Lambs to the Slaughter', they have certain similarities. They both focus around death and madness, and include characters that are written to make the reader question their sanity. They also both oppose the development of modern technology. However, they are written in completely different styles. Dickens' piece is written in the first person, as in that it is written from the characters' point of view. In contrast, Dahl's piece is written from a narrator's point...
over her husband. 'Signal-Man' tells of an educated man that would be ignored because of where he works, and how much power he has, or in this case, doesn't have. It is a story of the working classes, a story that uses one man's tale to inform the upper classes of the dangers of technology. It gives the purpose and moral of the writing a human identity, something that the readers can, themselves, identify with and feel sympathy for.

The stories are both alike and different, but are, initially, of the same themes and ideas.