How Does Sweeney Todd Kill His Wife?
Lucy Barker Was Benjamin Barker's Wife and While He Was Arrested, She Was Raped by Judge Turpin, Which Drove Her to Attempt Suicide by Poisoning. Mrs. Lovett...
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Also asked, why did Sweeney Todd kill Mrs Lovett?
His motive (in addition to the fact that Sweeney wanted to kill him) is that Sweeney has murdered the maternal figure in Toby's life, Mrs. Lovett. Mrs. Lovett later claims that her motive for lying about Lucy's death is that she loves Sweeney.
Additionally, why does Sweeney Todd kill his customers? According to some accounts, a barber named Todd, who set up shop in Fleet Street during the late 1700s, murdered dozens of his customers and was hanged for his crimes in 1802. The real Todd supposedly killed his many victims by dropping them from his barber's chair into an old tunnel that ran beneath his shop.
Similarly, does Sweeney Todd kill his daughter?
She is nearly murdered by her father when he discovers her, as he does not recognize her as his daughter (seeing as he had never met her since infancy and because she is disguised as a young man). She survives when Mrs. Lovett screams in the basement bakehouse, distracting Todd and allowing her to escape.
How does Sweeney Todd die?
At the end of the play, he finally gets his revenge by killing the Judge, but then unknowingly kills his own wife, who Mrs. Lovett had misled him into believing had died. He kills Mrs. Lovett, but is in turn killed by Mrs. Lovett's assistant Tobias Ragg, who slits Todd's throat with his own razor.
