The Effectiveness of The Monkey's Paw

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The Effectiveness of The Monkey's Paw

The Monkey's Paw was written in the turn of the century which was the

time of industrial revolution. Great industries and cities were

building up all across the country but not everyone was involved in

this change. Older and less educated people were getting left behind

by the new technologies and education. This story reflects these

changes in the society and shows us how an innocent world could be

destroyed by the power of greed.

The Monkey's paw would have been this effective of a story in its time

because I think it had everything that needs to be in a horror story

of anytime and I am going to show that in my essay.

This story is written in the time when people didn't have a lot of

social life, they were not highly educated and just had simple things

as there pleasures and they were honest people who didn't earn a lot

of money but earned enough to make the most of living. TV wasn't

around at those times and the biggest form of entertainment for them

was to listen to other people's experiences on travel and to have a

family get together for a story reading and other things.

Straight from the start of the story the writer puts the reader into a

atmosphere where the reader will feels safe by setting the story where

there is a father playing chess in a small parlour where the blind are

drawn and the fire is burning showing no harm to anyone "… the night

was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnum Villa the

blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly, Father and son were at

chess." shows that there was a bit of tension in the house of the

White's as Mr White does not lik...

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get to unexpected visitors who change the mood of the story and

direction in which the story is going. These visitors also make

introduce the story and the way things are going to work out i.e.

Sergeant Major Morris introduces the paw and he also tells that there

will be price to pay for the wish and then the manager of "Maw and

Meggins" tells the White's that the price paid for the wish is your

son, Herbert.

"The Monkeys Paw" also would have been successful at its time because

it was written as a simple story involving everything that would have

been normal at the time i.e. the rats in the house were common at the

time and that feel was put in the story. This gave a feel to the

audience of the normal things at the time and it also showed the

audience that this is not all work of imagination of the writer.

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