Comparing The Tell-Tale Heart And The Monkey's Paw

Anxiety, a feeling you get when you are nervous or perhaps scared, maybe even petrified. Living in a world that has the most terrifying problematic situations can be quite the ride when acknowledging the horror genre. It is rather monotonous when discovering the author’s basic techniques, but still it continues to intimidate our senses and bring us a lack of recognizing the effortless structure. The setting, plot, characters and other methods allow a story to build up the tension and exhilaration while having many specific details to clearly make the horror class come to life. Two stories, “The Tell Tale Heart” By Edgar Allen Poe and “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs are texts that bring a huge amount of suspense, excitement, and a feel of horrifying pleasure, but why? The setting in a story can be the biggest focus when producing this particular type of text. In

At the end of both texts W.W Jacobs and Edgar Allen Poe leave us with absolutely no explanation or answers. In “The Tell Tale Heart” Poe has the narrator confess his killing with no clarification of why he had confessed. “…I admit the deed!—here, here!—it is the beating of his hideous heart!”’(lines 192-194). The story ends with his admission and says no more. In “The Monkey’s Paw” the old women insists for her husband to wish her son alive again and soon a knock on the door approaches leaving us with the urge to want to know what happens next. “The knocking ceased suddenly, although the echoes of it were still in the house. He heard the chair drawn back, and the door opened. A cold wind rushed up the staircase, and a long loud wail of disappointment and misery from his wife…” (lines 407-410). The ending of this particular story is quite heartbreaking and more of an emotional feeling of curiosity. Having a text that closes with no explanation is a lot more interesting and unique to truly have the readers