Literary Analysis of the Monkey's Paw

Who killed Herbert? It all started on a dark stormy night, while playing chess. A man, from a faraway land knocked on the door. He told a story on a magical paw. The paw would let you make three wishes. The story “Monkey Paw” the son Herbert dies. I Believe Mr. White is the blame.

David Kherdian’s novel Monkey: A Journey to the West, begins with the creation story of Monkey. On the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, a magic stone is fertilized by the seeds of Heaven and Earth and is impregnated by divine inspiration. Following the embryonic stages of development, a stone egg is revealed. The stone egg instantly undergoes a physical transformation. “Once the egg was exposed to the elements, the wind soon transformed it into a stone monkey, complete in every way in all aspects of its being”(Kherdian 1). The stone monkey soon comes to life, explores his surroundings, and makes friends with other monkeys and other mammals. Monkey and his friends fool around in the forest and spot a curtain of water flowing from a waterfall.

Monkey: Journey to the West is a story of an adventure for enlightenment to India in order to find ancient Buddhist scriptures. The story consists of Chinese legends, tales, and superstitions. Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism play a huge role throughout this story. Monkey: Journey to the West is a story that discusses religion, and moral issues. The monkey acts the way he does due to underlying religious themes played throughout the story. At first understanding why the Monkey acts the way he does may seem difficult. However, after reading deeper through the story one learns that social satire in the Monkey is what gives him his rebellious personality. The end of the story reveals the hidden spiritual meaning behind the monkeys change in

In the chapter Year of the Monkey, Paul Lin’s father passes away during Lunar New Year festivities. In Chinese culture, there is a system of 12 different names of Chinese year named the Chinese Zodiac. And it is also called as Sheng Xiao, based on a twelve-year cycle, each year in that cycle related to a kind of animal. These animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. The way of its calculation is accorded to Chinese lunar calendar. The zodiac is also mentioned in the chapter Outlaws. During the funeral proceedings, Pual is so passive. It means that he is not familiar with the approach of his father’s death. As an Asian American, he doesn’t know what the proceedings mean and what the symbolic meanings are, and all these things are indicated

Part I of “The Monkey’s Paw” introduces all of the characters and the setting. A game of chess is being played in the parlor where conversation rises about India.This is when Mr. White asks Sergeant Major Morris, “What was that you started telling me

Yank from The Hairy Ape is one of the Stockholm firemen who is nescient, tough, and tall who believe he is living life. Mildred the opulent adolescent women who does not have a sentimental heart for the poor. When both Mildred and Yank visually perceived each other for the first time they both revolted by the fact they were different, and one looking like to a beast Yank, and the other white as a ghost Mildred. The Allegory of the Cave, if one of the prisoners gets out of the cave and visually perceive the Form, the prisoner will feel uncomfortable because he or she was not habituated to see the other side. The Lesson, Sylvia was revolted when Mrs. More had brought her and her friends to Fifth Avenue. She became furious of how opulent people

In The Monkey’s Paw, by W.W. Jacobs the pace after the second wish speeds up due to focus of the plot and shortened sentences. When Mrs. White frantically tries to open up the door to get to Herbert, the pace speeds up: “She ran to the door, but her husband was before her, and catching her by the arm, held her tightly”(Jacobs 7). The sentences focus more on the actions taking place to further the plot rather than descriptive details. This gives the story a quicker pace since more actions occur within a shorter amount of sentences. Also, the plot is at its climax at the moment she opens the door, so the intensity is high. Similarly, as Mrs. White tries to open the door, Mr. White desperately searches for the paw to wish his son away: “But her

Fate cannot be tamed and anyone who tries to modify their fate does so to their sorrow. This is the main theme that is exemplified in the short work of fiction “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs. Jacobs successfully creates characters who eventually learn the lesson about fate. Mr. and Mrs. White, the main characters, are visited late one night by a fakir who gives them a monkey’s paw that could grant 3 wishes. But, before the fakir leaves, he warns the Whites, if they use the paw, to “wish for something sensible” (Jacobs 27). Not only does this create foreshadowing, but it also generates conflict between the Whites as to whether or not to use the paw and what to wish for. The author uses the responses of the characters to this conflict, especially

The Monkey’s paw is a short fictional horror story written by W.W. Jacobs to tell the mysterious tale of an English family. In W.W. Jacobs’s story the White family’s lives are brought to a drastic turn of events when they received a visit from Mr. White’s military friend, Sergeant major Morris. Mr. White insisted on keeping a cursed monkey paw in which he was warned of its horrible consequences. In this story, wishes come to life but not in the ways the family would have hoped for. W.W. Jacobs’s overall purpose was to show the reader just how powerful fate was and this is what built his basic foundation of this short story. In efforts to create a visual in the reader’s mind of each setting, feeling, and expression, Jacobs does a great job of

The saying "If it's too good to be true, it probably is" would be quite the understatement in this piece of work. The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs has displayed an eerie sense of forbiddenness with the help of the author's characterization, literary devices, and choice words to make it an edgy and suspenseful masterpiece. The most important part of a fictional work are the characters and their respective beliefs and views of the situation at hand. In the beginning of the story, our cast - Mr. and Mrs. White, Herbert White and Sergeant-Major Morris- all have different views of the mystic paw they have with them as they sit in the living room.

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