Accepting Fate In 'The Monkey's Paw'

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An American writer Allen Saunders once said that life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. In William W Jacob’s short story, “The Monkey’s paw,” an old Fakir curses a monkey’s paw to show that it is “‘fate that rules [one’s] life’”(58 Jacobs). The Whites tries to interfere with this natural order, despite having been told the intentions of the Fakir, and is punished for it. It is much better to accept it and submit to the fact that the human will will never be able to overcome fate. Fate really does rule people’s lives, because anyone who try to tamper with it suffer the consequences, and it is predetermined and unescapable. Even after the Whites find out that there is some truth in the magic of the monkey’s paw,