Essay Comparing The Monkey's Paw And The Tell Tale Heart

What do you expect to happen when you put a metal utensil in a active toaster. Would you feel nothing, or would you feel a shock? Actions have consequences and this is shown in these 2 stories, The monkey’s paw, by W.W. Jacobs, and The Tell Tale heart, by Edgar Allan Poe, creating suspense too see what the main character will do next., by Edgar Allan Poe. The stories show that everything might have a drawback, when it comes to wishing, to even murdering. Looking more closely to these 2 stories we’ll find tragic examples of cause and effect.

If you want to feel the real suspense, read the "Monkey's Paw." Three members of a house obtain a monkeys paw from a military soldier and uses it without knowing what it does, making bad stuff happen. The suspense is if the wish that was made will actually come true. In "The Monkey's Paw" quotes from it states "Monkey's paw?" said Mrs. White, curiously."Well, it's just a bit of what you might call magic, perhaps," said the sergeant-major, offhandedly (Jacobs, p. 1). The quotation meant supernatural ability within the
He does this because he thinks he's being haunted by the old man, but he isn't. The suspense is the fact that if he'll be caught or not for murder. One of the quotes in "The Tell-Tale Heart" the author wrote "they heard! – they suspected! – they knew! – they were making a mockery of my horror!" (Poe, p. 1). The quotation meant that the madman is haunted making him think everything is bad when everything is actually ok, creating suspense.

When something good happens something bad happens as well. In The Tell Tale Heart, we learned you can't get away with murder because you'll feel guilty about it. In The Monkeys Paw, you have to think about the wish and see if it's worth wishing. Think of it like I said in the first paragraph, is it actually worth electrocuting yourself just to look cool around a