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The Monkey's Paw
One of the primary themes explored throughout Jacobs's classic short story "The Monkey's Paw" concerns fate and the consequences of attempting to interfere with one's destiny. In Part One of the...
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The Monkey's Paw
The theme of this story is that the price of taking shortcuts to try to improve one's life is not worth the cost. Mr. and Mrs. White, urged on by their son Herbert, succumb to temptation and decide...
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The Monkey's Paw
In part 1 of the story, Sergeant-Major Morris visits the White family on a stormy evening and begins telling the family about his fascinating experiences in India. Eventually, Mr. White asks...
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The Monkey's Paw
When Sergeant-Major Morris visits the White family, he shares his monkey's paw with them, telling them that the paw has the power to grant three wishes to three separate men. This doesn't seem like...
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The Monkey's Paw
W.W. Jacobs does not reveal a significant amount of information about Herbert's character but depicts him as an intuitive, playful individual, who has a strong relationship with his parents....
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The Monkey's Paw
One of the most obvious moral lessons in "The Monkey's Paw" is to be careful what you wish for: It just might come true. The curse of the claw is based on this premise. The paw's wishes always come...
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The Monkey's Paw
Two main conflicts make up the story: man vs. fate and man vs. man. In wishing on the monkey's paw to receive a sum of money, the Whites attempt to control fate. Their wish comes true, but...
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The Monkey's Paw
At the beginning of the story, Mr. White is depicted as a careless, easy-going old man who enjoys spending time with his family. In the opening scene, Mr. White puts his king in "sharp and...
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The Monkey's Paw
In the first few lines of the story Jacobs establishes an appropriately spooky mood by giving a detailed description of the weather. Outside the White residence, it is cold and wet, just the kind...
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The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs sets the mood of the story through his description of the setting and threatening weather as well as the atmosphere surrounding Sergeant-Major Morris's visit and interaction with the...
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The Monkey's Paw
From the opening scene of the story, it is clear that Mrs. White has a strong and loving bond with her son. When their son beats his father in a game of chess, his father catches "a knowing glance...
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The Monkey's Paw
The theme for Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw" can be taken from what Morris says about the reason that the fakir creates the talisman: "He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those...
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The Monkey's Paw
In part 1 of W. W. Jacobs's classic short story "The Monkey's Paw," Mr. White retrieves Sergeant-Major Morris's monkey's paw from the fire and proceeds to wish for two hundred pounds using the...
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The Monkey's Paw
1. Mr. White and his son are playing chess, waiting for the arrival of their visitor, Sergeant Major Morris.2. Morris arrives and shows them the monkey's paw, telling them of its unusual history,...
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The Monkey's Paw
In part one, Sergeant-Major Morris gives Mr. White a magic monkey's paw and he proceeds to wish for two hundred pounds while holding the talisman. In part two, a messenger from Herbert's work...
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The Monkey's Paw
This is a very good question as much of the suspense in the early part of "The Monkey's Paw" is indeed generated by the tension between the respective views of Sergeant-Major Morris and Mr. White...
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The Monkey's Paw
"The Monkey's Paw," by W.W. Jacobs, contains many examples of foreshadowing that create suspense as to the story's ending. Many of these examples occur quite early in the story arousing curiosity...
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The Monkey's Paw
In The Monkey's Paw, the author creates suspense through the mystery surrounding the monkey's paw. When Sergeant Major Morris visits the Whites, he brings with him the very vague and mysterious...
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The Monkey's Paw
One could argue that Sergeant-Major Morris is by far the most sensible character in the story. Sergeant-Major Morris initially visits the White family on a stormy night and elaborates on his exotic...
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The Monkey's Paw
Herbert White, the first character to suffer from the drastic manner in which the monkey's paw grants wishes, and Mrs. White are the most inclined to take risks in this story. Initially, this is...
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The Monkey's Paw
As with all works of literature, the main theme of this work can be interprete in various ways, and there can be more than one theme. The most obvious theme seems to be spelled out overtly for the...
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The Monkey's Paw
In W. W. Jacobs's short story "The Monkey's Paw," the narrator describes Sergeant-Major Morris's blotchy face as turning white when he replies, "I have," to Herbert's question why he doesn't ask...
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The Monkey's Paw
As you suggest, the number "3" is significant in the short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. The structure of the story is full of threes. For example, it is written in three parts. All...
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The Monkey's Paw
The Whites begin the story as a happy family, but their wish on the monkey's paw changes everything. After they are told that their son has tragically died in a factory accident, Mrs. White is...
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The Monkey's Paw
The setting of the story—the White's home—serves as a unifying device for the story. The fact that the Whites have secluded themselves in a remote house, difficult to reach, contrasts with the...
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The Monkey's Paw
Although the father insists on paying a small sum for the paw, ironically, it is Herbert White, his son, who is most eager to try it out. Despite being forewarned that the exotic paw from India...
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The Monkey's Paw
While this line does connect to theme, it's important to look at the end of this specific sentence. "He wanted to show that fate ruled people’s lives, and that those who tried to change it would...
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The Monkey's Paw
This is a good question. Chess often shows a person's character, and it certainly does in this short story. First, the text says that Mr. White made a serious mistake while playing chess with his...
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The Monkey's Paw
I assume that you are asking about the story "The Monkey's Paw." So I will edit the question to show this assumption. I hope I am right. In this story, Sergeant-Major Morris has warned the White...
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The Monkey's Paw
It is with bitter hindsight that the lonely, aggrieved Mr. and Mrs. White recognize the power of the talisman and the prophetic words of the sergeant who brought the fateful monkey's paw: "Better...
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The Monkey's Paw
Mr. White casually mentions that Sergeant-Major Morris told him something about a monkey's paw the other day. He asks him to elaborate on what he told him, but Morris immediately tries to close...
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The Monkey's Paw
This suspenseful story has a great deal to work with as it really keeps you on the edge of your seat while reading. Consider the following three events that really build tension and suspense: He...
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The Monkey's Paw
At the beginning of the story, Mr. White plays his son, Herbert, in a game of chess and continually puts his king in "sharp and unnecessary perils." By putting his king in peril, Mr. White is...
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The Monkey's Paw
It is so bright and sunny the next morning that Mr. and Mrs. White and Herbert laugh over their creepy sensations of anxiety about the monkey's paw the night before. Mr. White had wished for 200...
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The Monkey's Paw
After Herbert beats his father in a game of chess, Mr. White expresses his anger and frustration with losing by complaining about living so far out of the way. Mrs. White responds by saying, "Never...
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The Monkey's Paw
At the beginning of the story, Mr. White demonstrates his reckless, risk-taking personality while he is playing his son in chess. Jacobs writes, Father and son were at chess, the former, who...
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The Monkey's Paw
Your question refers to two very different stories with a supernatural theme, written in very different times. W. W. Jacobs's “The Monkey’s Paw” is a classic horror tale published in 1902,...
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The Monkey's Paw
One of the first examples is the description of the way that Mr. White plays chess. His style is reckless to the point that others comment on it. In the game they are playing as the story opens,...
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The Monkey's Paw
"The Monkey's Paw" is rare in that Jacobs essentially states the theme in the text. Sergeant-Major Morris tells the Whites that "fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did...
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The Monkey's Paw
At the end of "The Monkey's Paw," Mr. White has already considered the possibility that wishing his son back to life will backfire as disastrously as his first wish backfired. He tells his wife:...
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The Monkey's Paw
The Whites obtain the monkey's paw from Sergeant-Major Morris, who has already claimed his three wishes from the paw and is so dismayed by the outcome that he throws the paw into the fire in front...
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The Monkey's Paw
Even though they've been told how dangerous the monkey's paw is by Sergeant-Major Morris, the White family treat it like it's just a big joke, like it's nothing more than a piece of harmless...
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The Monkey's Paw
Rising action can be defined as those events in a story that build suspense and increase the readers' interest. In "The Monkey's Paw" the rising action starts when Sergeant-Major Morris tells the...
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The Monkey's Paw
Mr. White, having retrieved the monkey's paw from the fire and learned how to make a wish, feels ashamed to do so, especially after the way he has been warned against the paw by Sergeant-Major...
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The Monkey's Paw
The White family exists as a typical family with some struggles with money, and they jump at the chance to have three wishes granted by a mysterious monkey's paw. Even though Sergeant-Major Morris...
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The Monkey's Paw
At the beginning of the story, Mr. White inquires about Sergeant-Major Morris's magic monkey paw, and Morris proceeds to elaborate on the ominous talisman. Sergeant-Major Morris explains to the...
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The Monkey's Paw
This story always reminds me of a fable that circulates throughout many cultures about a different monkey. The details vary from culture to culture, but at its core, this is the basic story: A...
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The Monkey's Paw
Mrs. White is introduced as "the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire." When her husband loses a chess game against their son, Mrs. White consoles him "soothingly." From this...
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The Monkey's Paw
The author of "The Monkey's Paw," W. W. Jacobs, sets the tone and mood of his story with descriptions of the weather and with foreshadowing. In the exposition of his narrative, Jacobs writes that...
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The Monkey's Paw
Mr. White's first wish is for two hundred pounds, which he needs to pay off the loan on his house. The immediate effect of this first wish is the movement of the monkey's paw, and Mr. White's...
