And Then There Were None And The Monkey's Paw Comparison

Gothic literature is one of the most popular genres of reading that there is, and a lot of gothic literature stories are very similar, and others, very different. In And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, each of the character's fate all decided by that one person, the host. Whereas the character´s in ¨The Monkey's Paw¨ are given their fate by a ¨magical¨ item, a monkey's paw. Both tie into gothic literature, And Then There Were None is tied in by suspicion, murder, and a gloomy, mysterious setting. On the other hand, ¨The Monkey's Paw,¨ is tied in by supernaturalism, a paw of a monkey deciding a person's fate. Both of the stories may be tied into gothic literature, even though it may be in a different form, they are still tied in with it, by mystery and supernaturalism. …show more content…
Owen, to decide each of the characters´ fate. Each character was invited to stay at the house, and each character was killed. They could do nothing about it. In ¨The Monkey's Paw,¨ Jacobs used a so called ¨magical¨ item to decide the characters´ fate. The item that Jacobs used was a paw of a monkey. The characters could do nothing about this either, this is where supernaturalism comes in. Although, both stories tie into gothic literature, they tie into it in different ways. And Then There Were None is tied in by murder, mystery, and fear. ¨The Monkey's Paw¨ is tied in by a big difference, by supernaturalism, but it is still tied in by murder, mystery and fear, but the events are brought by supernaturalism. This is a big difference in literature. Supernaturalism can bring more fear to a character. They don´t know what they can do about a mystery when it´s brought by supernaturalism. Whereas, when a mystery is brought by a certain character, others can usually solve the