U is for Uxoricide - Mrs Denise Nesbitt's ABC-Wedneday - Round 7 - U
Photo source: Wikipedia I usually choose very well-known common words for the alphabet-memes that I participate in. But this time I've decided to write about an unusual word for this week's edition of Mrs Denise Nesbitt's ABC-Wednesday, Round 7-U. My U-word is ' Uxoricide ', which means (according to the Oxford dictionary for advanced learners) '( law ) the crime of killing your wife; a man who is guilty of this crime. ' I think it is a horrible thing, a man killing his wife. But it happens in real life, and not just in far off places. I know of a case in my own home town. But real murders are too terrible to write about on a G-rated blog. Fiction is bad enough. So instead of writing about real cases, I have two examples of fictional uxoricide : Shakespeare's Othello and Alfred Hitchcock's film, Rear Window . (Click on the ti tles to get more detailed information from Wikipedia) Photo source: Wikipedia Shakespeare wrote Othello, the Moor of Venic...