Essay question: How do the writers of “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” create an atmosphere of tension, fear, and ultimately horror? This essay will discuss how the writers of “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” create an atmosphere of tension, fear, and ultimately, horror. “The Monkey’s Paw” begins with the description of the setting. The weather outside is described as “cold and wet”, which immediately creates tension as bad things often happen in bad weather in stories. In “The Monkey’s Paw”, however, the weather is sunny when the Whites find out about Herbert’s death, but this is a natural event (although there are implications that the paw – something supernatural – has caused it).
If it weren’t for him giving away the money, then Pap would have been pleased and never would have taken him. Not only did money affect this part of the book, but it most certainly had an impact on particular subjects later in the book. One of these particular subjects was when the King and the Duke acquire information that there would be a scam worth their while to achieve $6,000. They pose as brothers of a man recently deceased and arrive to claim their award out of the will. After nearly successfully attaining this money the real brothers arrive and causes much havoc.
The consequence of what will happen while wishes are made with “The Monkey’s Paw” at first is unknown. The family does not realize that wishing with the paw, is another test of what they were warned of from the beginning. The simian face that Mr. White see’s in the fire is an example of foreshadowing. In the story Mr. White says he saw the monkeys face in the dying fire. Also were spell is to represent the paw being evil.
Schlichtmann begins to be influenced by non market forces. He becomes more empathetic with the families who lost their children. His feelings get more intense and his motivating factor (money) is no longer his reason for pursuing the case. He probably could have settled for $25 million with both companies, but he wanted more for the families, so he let his emotions take over and caused the case to go to trial. During deliberations to determine if there was enough evidence to continue with the trial, Schlichtmann had a second opportunity to accept a $20 million offer from Beatrice Foods, again non market forces (his emotions) influenced his decision to decline the offer.
In O’Brien’s ‘How To Tell A True War Story’, the story he tells us about Rat Kiley shooting the baby water buffalo both disturbs and intrigues. The act itself is without a doubt horrific, but it does not elicit a response of disgust. The question itself remains however, why did he shoot the buffalo in the first place? Rat’s actions were not random, pointless cruelty, but are in fact indicative of a much deeper, more complex emotional state. We must eliminate several more obvious answers first, but we can find that Rat Kiley is trying to reconcile what he is feeling with the situation he finds himself in.
Mike Judge fantasticly highlights the absurdities through his use of characters and blatantly obvious situations of pointless office work. Just as it is completely absurd to have humans cooped up in tiny cubicles all day; it’s likewise just as if not more absurd to expect monkeys to produce Hamlet. Mike Judge is the director I would like to hire because he would highlight the comical lunacy in tasking monkeys to produce Hamlet. Mike Judge was a cartoon director up until his movie Office Space so he has experience with non-human characters.
That’s fairly safe. But I warn you, sir, you can’t compete with all these monkeyshines.”(Lawrence and Lee, 16) By this, Hornbeck means to sound like he is ridiculing the issue of evolutionism referring to the fact that man stemmed from monkeys and referring to it as grandpa. Also the fact that he belittles a serious issue by mocking creationists when speaking on evolutionism, as everyone in this town believes in god. Therefore, Hornbeck’s taunting results in the idea that evolutionism is a joke to him. Hornbeck further continues to ridicule both creationism and evolutionism, sarcastically remarking “How could you ask for better proof than that?
Darwinism, the belief in his theories of evolution was what sealed Cates’s fate. He taught his students of the other possibilities and was misjudged and misunderstood in a small town not seeking change. Drummond, while we learn is highly religious in the end, Some topics in this essay: Drummond Brady, Monkey Trial, Matthew Brady, Supporters Darwinism, Inherit Wind, BT Cates, Henry Drummond, monkey trial, scopes monkey trial, Scopes Monkey, scopes monkey, arrested teaching darwin's, defender god's words, god's words, students possibilities, defender god's, agnostic godless, monkey trial movie, town cates, inherit wind, teaching darwin's, trial
Dr. Jekyll is really connected to Mr. Rainsford in The Most Dangerous Game, and General Zaroff is connected to Mr. Hyde. The reasons why is because during the story Mr. Rainsford is mostly the good guy, because he thinks that what General Zaroff does is wrong and it is not the proper game to use for hunting. Dr. Jekyll is afraid that Mr. Hyde will take over his body and tries to keep him out, but eventually during the story, Mr. Hyde has more controll over Dr. Jekylls mind, forcing him to drink the potion and turn him into Mr. Hyde again, so I think that General Zaroff is the evil one for using human beings as hunting game, and so is Mr. Hyde for taking over Dr. Jekyll and then murdering numerous people.
Of course at first we can think that this text will be about love and passion with happy end, without any interesting facts, but in reality it isn’t so. The theme of this story is an eternal opposition between money and love. The round characters of this story are Old Anthony and his son Richard, the static characters are Aunt Ellen, Miss Lantry and Kelly. The main idea of this story is wealth (money – old Athony) and love (young Richard). As we know everything in our life depends on freak of chance, but old Anthony thinks that money can decide all problems of his life.