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Herbert White, focal character of "The Monkey's Paw is the vital person from the family who works and support financially of his family. Moreover, one day he brought a monkeys paw that was tried to destroy by Morris (he is a major in this story). Morris wanted to destroy it due to the power of monkey’s paw as it is known by all that it has the ability to fulfill the three wishes. However, Herbert’s family did not believe it at all and he wished 200 pounds as he needed it at that time due to pay the home loan. Surprisingly, this wish had come true and Mr. White brought money from the office. But there was a sad history too. His son was dead during their office time. They were shocked. Not only Mr. White was the important role here but also his …show more content…

So she thought about her last wish and tried to do the last wish that she wanted to back his son. But they did not get back his son.
On the other hand, the main role of this story titled by Frankenstein is named as Victor who had learned lessons because of making new creature by himself. Fascination had started after his mother died during his birth time. That's y he went to study in university which is situated in Ingolstadt and there he had tried to involve with scientific ideas and experiments. He tried to experiments on how to make creature by using dead body. He had disconnected communicating with his family. That’s y he tried to do that. In spite of decreeing his professor, he was desperate for it. His professor died and he took the formulas from him that he applied after his professor’s death. He followed all the procedure and could able to make a creature like a monster. That creature is called a monster because that was nigh feet high ad body was huge. But He was so happy that he could actually make what he wanted. However, suddenly he could not the creatures after his gad returned on nursing lab. Monster was not anywhere. Everyone was afraid of him because of monster’s look, apiece and other features. Henry was his best friend who had

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