The Monkey's Paw Compare And Contrast

While some might assume that live performances of a story and an actual story are exactly the same, they actually differ a great deal from each other. Although, these people are not completely wrong. Plays and books always keep the same general plot, characters, and all the major details, while still differentiating on several things. Live performances leave little to the imagination, while stories allow readers to imagine innumerable details. In live theater, directors get to imagine how the characters look, how the setting looks, what details are important, and etc, despite how different his or her imagery is from yours. While this sounds like a frustrating and annoying fact, it can also be interesting to see things from another person’s point of view. For example, in the Raven, a play our grade got to see (along with multiple others), the character did a kind of modern dance, dancing around the stage silently and playing with ribbons. Our class had been under the impression that the actor would talk and actually act out the story, but it was certainly interesting to see the director’s interpretation of it. Another example was the producer’s interpretation of Henry, in The Monkey’s Paw. Again, we had expected the character to be an adult, due to the fact that he had a job in the story. Yet, in the live performance, the character …show more content…
All things previously listed are crucial to the story, so it’s fundamental that the live performance keep all those parts included. In all the plays we saw, the storyline, characters, and setting were essentially the same, and didn’t differ from the book. For example, in The Raven, the setting, characters, and main story structure hardly strayed from the book, as well as in the plays The Tell Tale Heart and The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, and basically all of