The Monkey's Paw

The W.W. Jacobs version, and the Simpson’s version of The Monkey’s Paw were both similar and different. For example, one difference is, in The Monkey’s Paw story by W.W. Jacobs, the wishes made all had bad outcomes. Specifically, In the W.W. Jacobs version, a man comes to their house and tells them Herbert died and they would be given, “[t]wo hundred pounds...” (Jacobs 174). This evidence proves, how the White family wished for two hundred pounds, then the received the two hundred pounds, at the cost of their son’s life. On the other hand, in The Simpson’s version, they became rich and famous from their wish. Overall, In the W.W. Jacobs version of The Monkey’s paw, the wishes all had very bad outcomes; but the Simpson’s version had fairly good

Everything is normal until a man that goes by the name Sergeant Morris comes to visit the Whites. He tells the family about something called The Monkey's Paw. He stated, “It's just a bit of what you might call magic.” (Pg.34) Family listens as Sergeant Morris continues to tell them more about the monkey's paw. He went on to tell them that there is a spell on it and that it is able to grant 3 men 3 wishes. W.W Jacobs adds a mysterious tone to the story because where did this item come from and why does it have the ability to grant wishes.

Have you ever wondered if wishes could be granted? If you have, you probably thought of everything you could get with them. Being rich, unlimited wishes, fame etc. Well in “The Monkey’s Paw,” written by W.W Jacobs, you wouldn’t want to make a wish. This story takes place in England. In this story, a family named the whites has a chance to increase their fortunes with an magical object, a monkey’s paw. This magical paw from India has the power to grant three wishes from three separate men, the downside of this paw was that the wisher would have to pay the price. The simpson’s give the same message in their parody, but in a way different way. In the parody, it imitates “The Monkey’s Paw,” in a dramatic way. The parody takes place on a halloween night, but in a dream. Homer finds a magical monkey’s paw at a shop that has the power to grant four wishes. As you can already see, even though the parody gives the same message, it has it’s own differences to the original story as well. These two versions share both differences and similarities.

Three fates. Three heavens. Three wishes for the future. The famous horror story The Monkey’s Paw is a well known tale of the infamous paw taken in by the iconic White family, father, mother, and son Herbert.

Fate shouldn’t be interrupted with, because those who did usually ended up sad and unhappy. That was what Mr. White and Mrs. White learned after receiving the cursed monkey’s paw. The paw was initially given to Sergeant Morris, but after using his 3 wishes he decided to show it to Mr. White. Unfortunately, he had no idea that this paw was extremely dangerous. The most responsible person for the tragic events resulted from the monkey’s paw was Mr.

Ever had something go in one ear and it went out the other, even though there was a warning about the consequences? In The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs, the White’s family, is introduced to a magical paw by their friend, the sergeant. The magical paw contains three wishes and after each of them, follows a blood curdling consequence. This story is a great reminder of why you shouldn’t take more than you already have.

The theme of the “Monkey’s Paw”, by W.W. Jacobs is to be careful when being curious. In other words, the sergeant is trying to stray the White family away from taking the monkey’s paw because it causes many bad things to happen to the wishmaker. The White family just gets more and more interested and basically only starts hearing things they want to hear. For example, the sergeant keeps telling the family how the user before him had wished for his own death due to the mistakes that he made in previous wishes from the paw. Another example would be when the sergeant recommends the family to burn it after he says “Better let it burn.”

Would you want three wishes to be granted to you? You probably said yes, but have you ever thought of anything that could go wrong with your three wishes? In W.W. Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw”, the story is about the White family who received a monkey’s paw that allows three wishes to be made. They find out that this monkey’s paw is one big troublemaker that causes havoc and unrest. Overall, “The Monkey’s Paw”, had very distinct and believable characters and a great plot that was fraught with danger and suspense.

From that quote we know that there is going to be and will be something strange about the paw. Well, in the end something bad does happen, the paw ends up killing the whole family either it be emotionally or physically. The cause and effect is very strong in this story, the cause was the family getting the paw, but then ignoring its mystical powers and the effect was their family being destroyed. Just like “The Monkey’s Paw” the story “The Tell Tale Heart” also has it’s fair use of cause and effect that also creates suspense. In the story you have an insane man that thinks his boss has an evil eye, he thinks it was originally the eye of a vulture. One night while the old man was sleeping he stalked him and killed him, You could tell the man wasn’t thinking when he killed the old man. When people are insane they tend to not know what they are doing, “For it was not the old man I felt I had to kill, it the eye, his evil eye.” Page 91. The quote shows that the man wasn't mad at the old man, but only in his eye, once he successfully killed the old man he put his body parts into the wooden

In the first part of the story everything is fine. It starts off with the son and father playing chess, the father losing horribly. It then really starts off with a old soldier coming to join them for dinner. When the father brings up the monkey's paw and the soldier would rather not talk about it, it brings up mystery and tension by showing he has something to hide.

Sometimes being a determined person can lead to bad consequences. In both stories, the characters are super determined and being determined lead to bad consequences. In both stories, the deceased person had passed away because of an object. The stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs are two stories with a similar theme. “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs has good relationships, but what happens when magic is involved?

Jacobs in the direction of effectively introducing the theme. Through the story, the monkey’s paw serves as a powerful symbol of desire and greed. The power that comes with the paw is very tempting even to unselfish people who want nothing and have everything they need. Everything that its owner could possibly wish for is unrestricted. The author demonstrates the avarice that Mr. White has by saying, “He took the paw, and dangled it between his front finger and thumb, suddenly threw it upon the fire.

White Tries to reassure Mr. White that he has done no harm when he was trying to utilize the monkey paw, by using logic. Although she defends logic prevails all, in the end she becomes a mess completely forgetting logic. Herbert White Trough out the whole story Herbert is constantly making jokes. Making jokes is Herbert’s first and immediate response to any situations life throw at him, which would mean that he would not be able to foresee any bad times to come. Herbert White While his mother did not desire to see the monkey paw for all the warnings the family received, Herbert was studying the paw with great interest.

W. W. Jacobs wrote the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” in 1902. A great number of adaptations of the story have since been created using different forms of media. The two which are being compared here are the play adaptation The Monkey’s Paw dramatized by Mara Rockliff and the 2011 film version The Monkey’s Paw by Ricky Lewis Jr. Both the play and film feature the White family receiving a monkey’s paw by which three wishes may be granted. The paw had a spell put on it by a holy man who wanted to show that fate rules people’s lives and that if people try to interfere, they will be sorry. The main differences between the play and the film are that film gives more background information about how and why the paw was obtained, uses more

The Monkey’s paw by W. W. Jacobs is an eerie short story about a son who dies in a horrific way and a family who wants to bring him back. It focuses on an enchanted monkey’s paw that grants three wishes. The paw was enchanted by an old fakir that wanted to prove that fate controlled life and going against it would only lead to regret and sorrow. This plot point can be noted as an underlying theme, but the main theme is “be careful what you wish for, because you might get it”. While this story is superb, a question comes to mind: Would could be learned from this short story?