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"The Monkey's Paw"
short story
Question | Answer |
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Author of "The Monkey's Paw" | W.W. Jacobs |
Point of View | Third person objective |
Setting | Night, cold, wet- country villa |
Protagonist | Mr. White |
Antagonist | Herbert(beats at chess), Wife(mocks), Paw(wishes), Sergeant Major Morris(talks about paw) |
symbol | door (good on the inside and bad on the outside) |
Theme | Fate ruled people's lives, those who interfered with it do so to their sorrow |
symbol | fire ( shows horrible monkey face, hypnotic) |
Person vs. Person | Mr. White vs. Herbert (chess) and Mr. White vs. Sergeant Major Morris |
Person vs. Self | Mr. White vs. self wishes (why? or why not?) |
Person vs. Nature | Whites vs. weather outside |
Person vs. fate | three wishes - Mr. White and Sergeant Major Morris - wishes |
Person vs. Machine | Herbert vs. machine at work and the White's vs. the door |
Person vs. Society | Mr. White vs. house payment and Mr. White vs. the law firm (200 pound payment) |
Person vs. Unknown | Mr. White vs. pounding on the door ( is Herbert the wind?) |
Allusion | biblical allusion to the number 3. the holy trinity |