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Dark Morals “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs are horror stories by American authors. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a story about a psychotic narrator that killed an old man because of his eye. After killing the old man, the narrator heard sounds that led him insane. “The Monkey’s Paw” is about a family who received a magical monkey’s paw that could grant wishes. However, granting wishes led to dark consequences such as death. The two stories use literary devices to describe the plot vividly and keep the reader engaged. The stories use devices such as mood and theme to explain the story. "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe and "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs both have a similar mood, yet different …show more content…

According to “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, “He shrieked once—once only,” (Poe 92). In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the insane narrator killed an old man because his eye had given him an eerie feeling. His action sets the mood as suspenseful and somber. The mood is suspenseful because of events before the death of the old man builds up an anxious feeling. This makes the story anxious and engages the reader. Additionally, the mood is somber because of the old man’s death. His death was dark and gruesome. In “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, a family is given a magical monkey’s paw that can grant wishes, however, there are dark consequences to the wishes. The first wish the family had made was for £200. The family had gotten the payment from their son’s death. After a few months, the mother …show more content…

The theme in the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe is the pressure of guilt will drive a person insane. According to “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, “It grew louder-louder-louder...' Villains!' I shrieked, 'dissemble me no more! I admit the deed!-tear up the planks!- here, here! It's the beating of his hideous heart,” (Poe 94). In the story, the narrator murdered the old man with a strange eye. A neighbor had reported a shriek to the police who came to investigate the situation. When the officers were first investigating, the narrator acted normally until later on the guilt of killing the old man had taken over him. The guilt made the narrator hear the old man’s heart beating which led the narrator to confess to his action. However, the theme of the story “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W Jacobs is never to interfere with one's fate. According to “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, “The visitor bowed in assent. ‘Badly hurt,’ he said quietly, ‘but he is not in any pain,’” (Jacobs 112). “‘They admit no liability at all, but in consideration of your son’s services, they wish to present you with a certain sum compensation,’” (Jacobs 113). In the story, the White family had wished for £200 by wishing from the magical monkey paw. The previous owner of the monkey paw had warned the family about the consequences of using the monkey paw. The owner explained that the wishes

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The person responsible for the misfortune to the White family in the Monkey's paw is Mr. White. The Monkey’s Paw is a short story by W.W. Jacobs is a story about a paw that grants three people three wishes. The family gets the paw but the catch is that each wish comes at a cost. The family's first son causes their son's death.

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The monkey's paw is just like the quote, “Be careful what you wish for it will surely be yours” (Baldwin 3). One of the ways is when the Whites wished for 200 pounds to pay off their home. How they got the money was by way of their son. He died at work due to falling into the machines. The Whites got a settlement for his death.

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“The Monkey’s Paw” In his story, “the monkey's paw,”w.w jacobs creates a mood of suspense through his use of foreshadowing in his story, a powerful object that grants wishes intrigues the characters but their curiously eventually brings dark consequences and deep regret to begin with the use of dialogue in this short story creates supunes when the text stated “wish on the paw to bring our son alive and then there is a knock on the door page 122 the reader began to want to know what is going to happen next which contributes to a scary mood additionally jacobs describes events in a dreadful way when he states my last wish i want my son to be gone Page 112 this description of the events makes the reader feel a sense of will it happen lastly

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Arthur St. John Adcock is an English novelist and poet as well as a journalist. He mentions that “the uncanny grimness of ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ by a pathos that is wrought to a pitch of almost painful intensity when the knock comes on the door at night and the heart-broken mother, after struggling desperately with the bolts, flings the door open and there is nothing there” (Adcock 3). The family makes an avoidable mistake by wishing with the monkey’s paw, but when they finally realize that, it is already too late. Their first innocent wish flips their lives upside down and they bring themselves irreversible pain and sorrow through a few words. Carl Mowery, a professor at several universities with a doctorate in rhetoric and composition, gives a great statement about the story as a whole.

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In the story “The Monkey’s Paw” begins on a stormy night and Sergeant Major Morris came to visit the White’s family. Morris told the family about his journey. Mr.White asked Morris about a “monkey’s paw”(2).Morris told them how an old fakir put a spell on it. ”He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives and those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow” (2). Morris told them that if you posses this paw you would regret everything you wish for,he decides to throw it into the fire but Mr. White stopped him he told him that if he didn't want it that he could give it to him.

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Each of the protagonists suffers from guilt, which controls their actions and adds a sense of horror. In Jacobs’ "The Monkey's Paw," Mr. and Mrs. White cause the death of their son, Herbert, when they make their first wish with the Monkey's Paw. A week after his death, Mrs. White grows hysterical and orders Mr. White to "wish [their] boy alive again" (Jacobs 6). She

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“The Monkey’s Paw” is a story about this cursed paw that this sergeant gives a married couple and their son. The characters are Mrs. White, Mr. White, Herbert, Sergeant Major Morris and the representative. Mrs. White is a mother to Herbert and a wife to Mr. White. Mr. White is a father to Herbert and a husband to Mrs. White. Herbert is their only son who mysteriously comes back to life in Mr. White’s second wish.

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Eventually wishing death for his son the Monkey’s Paw had shown them to not be greedy the hard way. My quotation was very important because, the last wish of the Monkey’s Paw is when reality finally hit their family. When Mr and Mrs White had wished their son back to life with the second wish nobody could have imagined

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The “Monkey's Paw” by W. W. Jacobs is a short story about a family of three that came upon a magic monkey paw. They made a wish that killed their son and it made them hate it. They tried to figure out how to get their son back, they made a wish to have their son back. When a ghost started to haunt them, they made their final wish to have the ghost go away. Through the action of the characters, the reader can understand that the story “Monkey Paw” is telling people to be careful about what they wish for.

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“The Monkey’s Paw” is a short supernatural story, by W.W. Jacobs, published in 1902. The short story teaches people that fate can rule people’s lives and that you don’t want to interfere with it, which is shown through the story’s events, setting, and character interactions. First of all, the events in the story shows that when you mess with fate, terrible things will happen. For example, in the story, Mr. White wished for “two-hundred pounds” to “clear off the house” (Jacobs 55).

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In “The Monkey’s Paw,” a talisman is forwarded to people with the intent of granting three wishes for three people. In all three cases the wishes are granted, however, they bring a horrid outcome along with them. The results of the wishes may even be death. The repeated awful outcomes reveal the theme of fate, which one must not interfere with unless they would like consequences alongside it.

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Have you ever wished for a million dollars? In “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, a family comes across a Sgt. from the military who gives them a monkey's paw. Despite being warned, the family uses the magical paw to make wishes. Bad things then happen to them.

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The main theme of, The Monkey 's Paw, is to not mess with fate. Mr. White wished for 200 pounds, and by doing that he played with fate. When you mess with fate, you end up suffering the consequences that come with changing it. The consequence was that his son, Herbert, died. Mr. White didn’t need to make that wish because, Mr. White said, "I don 't know what to wish for, and that 's a fact.

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The Tell-Tale Heart written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1843 is about a man who claims he is not insane but only nervous. In turn, he tells a story to defend his sanity, in which he confesses to have killed an old man. He claims that his ambition was neither passion nor greed for money, but actually uneasiness of the old man’s pale blue eyes. He continues to insist that he isn’t mad because of his calm and collected actions. Even though he is a murderer, he claims that his composed actions aren’t ones of a psychopath.

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