The story I am choosing to dissect and break down is “The monkey’s paw”
Now this story stuck out to me more than the others. The idea that if you grasp the monkey’s paw in your right hand and whatever you wished came true just caught my eye. The story was well put together and had many things I personally enjoyed the suspense of the wishes the penalty of wishing and the element of horror. I really enjoyed both the story and the production but, as much as I liked the story and the play there were differences. Not tiny differences that are hard to notice but differences as to the character gender or what the characters are doing. They both had any things in common in fact they were almost identical to the plot and the story line. The production …show more content…
I don’t know why they made general major morris a woman in the play but it did change the horror feeling in the story, she didn’t come off as scary or serious as the man would have. Other than that the characters were the same as in the story and gave off the same mood and feeling as the ones in the book. When the story first opens in the book the opening scene is herbert and his father playing chess and the wife watching while she knits by the fire but in the play, the opening scene includes general major morris sitting in the living room with the old man and woman. Herbert is nowhere to be found until 2 minutes into the story that he walks in the door on his way home from work. In the story when they play chess the man is reckless showing that his personality resembles his chess strategies they should have included this in the play. Another difference was int the story the old man wished for his son alive again and when the son came back he realized his son would be all mangled and destroyed from the factory so to save him and his wife's picture of him he wishes for it to be over and the son is gone. Though in the play you can see the mangled body through the door and see his muscles and skin when in the story the old man can't see he just assumed that since they didn't wish him healthy that his son would
Now this story stuck out to me more than the others. The idea that if you grasp the monkey’s paw in your right hand and whatever you wished came true just caught my eye. The story was well put together and had many things I personally enjoyed the suspense of the wishes the penalty of wishing and the element of horror. I really enjoyed both the story and the production but, as much as I liked the story and the play there were differences. Not tiny differences that are hard to notice but differences as to the character gender or what the characters are doing. They both had any things in common in fact they were almost identical to the plot and the story line. The production …show more content…
I don’t know why they made general major morris a woman in the play but it did change the horror feeling in the story, she didn’t come off as scary or serious as the man would have. Other than that the characters were the same as in the story and gave off the same mood and feeling as the ones in the book. When the story first opens in the book the opening scene is herbert and his father playing chess and the wife watching while she knits by the fire but in the play, the opening scene includes general major morris sitting in the living room with the old man and woman. Herbert is nowhere to be found until 2 minutes into the story that he walks in the door on his way home from work. In the story when they play chess the man is reckless showing that his personality resembles his chess strategies they should have included this in the play. Another difference was int the story the old man wished for his son alive again and when the son came back he realized his son would be all mangled and destroyed from the factory so to save him and his wife's picture of him he wishes for it to be over and the son is gone. Though in the play you can see the mangled body through the door and see his muscles and skin when in the story the old man can't see he just assumed that since they didn't wish him healthy that his son would