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Comparing The Monkey's Paw And The Raven

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The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Raven” have a sullen, baleful feeling throughout each of them, but Poe’s writing is more dreary and melancholy while Jacobs is enticingly suspenseful and eldritch. “...and a horrible fear that his wish would bring his mangled son before him ere he could escape from the room seized upon him, and he caught his breath as he found he lost the direction of the door. His brow cold with sweat, he felt his way around the table, and groped along the wall until he found himself in the small passage with the unwholesome thing in his hand.” With the usage of words such as horrible, mangled, seized, sweat, unwholesome, etc., Jacobs produces an eerie image of the monkey’s paw and its power. It shows the characterization of Mr.

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