With reference to the The Monkey's Paw by W.W Jacobs and to The signalman
by Charles Dickens I have to describe how these writers use the horror/
suspense genre to explore philosophy and psychological issues.
The Monkey's Paw
With reference to the "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W Jacobs and to "The
signalman" by Charles Dickens I have to describe how these writers use
the horror/suspense genre to explore philosophy and psychological
issues.
The first story "The Monkey's Paw" tells the story of the White family
two parents and one grown up son. In the story there is also a
Sergeant Major. The Sergeant Major who has been to India sells the
monkeys paw to Mr White because Mr White wants a change in his life
and hopes the monkey's paw can do it for him. Mr White then makes a
wish for £200 so he can pay the rest of his mortgage, the next day the
son dies and he gets £200. Everyone in the family is wondering if it
is coincidence that they wished for the money and now have it. The
mother is now taken over by the lust of wishes and asks Mr White to
wish their son alive again. The father agrees with the mother and
makes the wish. The next day there is a knock at the door but they are
all so scared that they make their last wish for their son to go back
to his grave.
The writer sets the scene as a cold winter night by describing the
house and writing " the blinds were drawn and the fire burned
brightly". He describes the setting in four lines but gives you a
reasonable picture.
The father then describes that he does not like the house he lives in
and lists all the bad points, but the mother than says "Never mind
dear" to make him feel more calmed and given the impression that she
doesn't care. Then she adds "perhaps you will win the next one"
emphasising that her husband is a bad looser. As the mother adds this
comment the father looks up intercepting a glance between mother and
son, which tells the reader that the mother and son are united and the
father is the outsider.
When the Sergeant Major walks towards to the house the writer gives
you the impression he is a large scary man by putting "as the gate
banged too loudly and heavy footsteps came towards the door" but as
the story goes on you realise he is a old small man.
After the Sergeant Major has been at the house and is on his third
The eugenics movement started in the early 1900s and was adopted by doctors and the general public during the 1920s. The movement aimed to create a better society through the monitoring of genetic traits through selective heredity. Over time, eugenics took on two different views. Supporters of positive eugenics believed in promoting childbearing by a class who was “genetically superior.” On the contrary, proponents of negative eugenics tried to monitor society’s flaws through the sterilization of the “inferior.”
The American Eugenics Movement was led by Charles Davenport and was a social agenda to breed out undesirable traits with an aim of racial purification. Eugenics was a used to breed out the worst and weakest to improve the genetic composition of the human race, and advocated for selective breeding to achieve this. The science of eugenics rested on simple mendelian genetics, which was a mistake because they were assuming complex behaviors could be reduced to simple mendelian genes. After Nazi Germany adopted the ideas behind the American eugenics movement to promote the Aryan race, the eugenics movement was completely discredited.
Men and Women in The Withered Arm and Other Stories by Thomas Hardy and Men and Women in Turned by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Life is not always fair. There is no real explanation for this. In almost all constitutions people are created equal but very rarely are all of them treated this way. But before the French revolution happened very few people even had these rights. Then when WW II came around the Jewish people were targeted by the Nazis. They were stripped of all their rights and basically became slaves to the Nazis party. The Nazis tried to rid Europe of the Jewish people and if they had their way eventually the whole world would be free of this religious group. The character that people show through times of adversity can define them individually and as an entire group. In “Night” Eli Wiesel faces life and death everyday in the Nazis concentration camp. While in “A tale of two cities” by Charles Dickens, Carton saves Darnay’s life twice once during a trial and another at the guillotine even though Carton resents Darnay shows mans true potential.
The dog waits and waits until the next morning and then when he starts to lose hope and it
By the end of the evening Nick discovers the true personalities of the characters. This paragraph shows a whole new meaning of the color white, in this passage white implies impurity and ?absence of all desire.? (17) Before, however, it implied elegance, innocence and joy. Nick senses that to the Buchanan?s the evening had no great importance, he believes that it would be ?casually put away? (17) and be forgotten. Nick also perceives the woman to be tools of entertainment for the men.
The concept of eugenics has to do with the belief or practice of improving the genetic quality of the human race (“Eugenics” 2010). The concept was first introduced by Francis Galton, a researcher who wished to apply Darwin’s theory of evolution to the human race. Much like many endeavors that start off with good intentions, the results of applying this concept in real life were gross crimes against humanity. The eugenics movement in the early 20th century perverted the original concept by employing morally objectionable techniques including forced sterilization, marriage restrictions, segregation, internment camps, and genocide (Black 2012). In War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, Edwin Black discusses the root of the eugenics movement in the United States of America and how this ultimately influenced the horrifying actions taken by the Nazis in pursuit of the pure Aryan race.
The eugenics movement originally started in the late 1870s because of the idea that inferior classes, criminals, poverty, feeble-minds, and disease were hereditary and reproducing would create an unfit population in the United States. Forced sterilizations and the introduction of birth control began with the demand to wipe out populations that were constructed as inferior. The early history of the birth control pill was a form of eugenics, and was not only oppressive towards women of color but to women across the United Sates.
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“A good story, whether it is true, made-up, or somewhere in between, reveals some truth about human experiences through its characters.” The main character in “The Monkey’s Paw” is Mr. White. He could be described as protective and caring due to his love towards his family. He is also curious, because he wants to have the magical monkey’s paw, despite the warnings given to him by Sergeant Major Morris. From the beginning, all Mr. White wants is to pay off his house mortgage. Also a man, the main character in “The Third Wish” is Mr. Peters. Mr. Peters, on the contrary to Mr. White, is a lonely man who desperately wants a companion. He is granted a wife as beautiful as the forest, Leita, for rescuing the forests king. Mr. Peters shows selflessness and kindness to Leita, when he wishes her back to swan form so she may be happy with her swan sister again.
Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck 1. How significant is the theme of loneliness in Of Mice and Men? 2. To what extent is it correct that The Great Gatsby, Death of a Salesman and Of Mice and Men explore important, but different aspects of ‘The American Dream’? 3.
White did not believe that the monkey’s paw had special powers. They knew, however, it was special, as Mr. White did not let the sergeant burn it, but instead took it for himself. When the sergeant was leaving, he said to Mr. White, on page 35 in The Monkey’s Paw, “If you must wish, wish for something sensible.” Mr. White did want to wish for something, so he went back to his house. Herbert said to him, on page 36 in The Monkey’s Paw, “Well, wish for two hundred pounds, then; that’ll just do it.” Mr. White did not need to wish for anything, he knew the paw was real and that it worked. He could have just said no to Herbert. But, he wished for the two hundred pounds, as seen on page 36 in The Monkey’s Paw, “I wish for two hundred pounds.” Mr. White was not forced to wish for anything, and he knew it would not be good if he did. But, he did anyways, contrary to everything that he had heard before from the
Eugenics is known as selective breeding in order to produce the most desirable traits and eliminating the negative ones. It has been a controversial subject in science for many years. Its negative implications mostly come from its early form in the United States by forced sterilization of women and men with “undesirable” traits and its later use in Nazi Germany during World War II. Modern eugenicists argue that new age eugenics does not seek to eradicate unwanted traits but instead improve the species making people as intelligent and healthy as possible (Taylor 114). Modern eugenics is divided into two categories: positive eugenics—the improvement one’s own genetic make-up—and negative eugenics—the removal of genetic disorders. Why should the public care? Eugenics has and continues to be one of the most controversial topics in the science community. Although eugenics today has better intentions than in the past, the negative aspects of it in terms of ethics and diversity outweigh the small possibility of a favorable outcome (Hix 17).
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood The adolescent years are often associated with turbulence, illusion, and self-discovery; however, Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim and Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman demonstrate that more often than not, the twenties possess these qualities to a greater extent than adolescence. The age period of the twenties often consists of relationships, employment and self issues and using the premise of these uncertain times, Amis and Atwood effectively satire various societal systems. Moreover, Amis and Atwood both implement the use of the foil, a character who, by contrast with another character, accentuates that character’s distinctive characteristics.