One such likeness was the story’s theme. The theme of both stories is to not challenge fate. The man that created the paw wanted people who wished upon it to receive an atrocious outcome, but still obtaining the wish. The things happened in such a coincidental way that people would not have known if they were not told of the wish. Another similarity between the two is the conflict. The source of the conflict within the two stories was the monkey’s paw. The monkey’s paw made everything go horribly. It made a man kill himself and Herbert to be killed. In the plot of the two versions, both the wife of the Sergeant-Major in the play and the Sergeant-Major himself in the story threw the paw into the
One such likeness was the story’s theme. The theme of both stories is to not challenge fate. The man that created the paw wanted people who wished upon it to receive an atrocious outcome, but still obtaining the wish. The things happened in such a coincidental way that people would not have known if they were not told of the wish. Another similarity between the two is the conflict. The source of the conflict within the two stories was the monkey’s paw. The monkey’s paw made everything go horribly. It made a man kill himself and Herbert to be killed. In the plot of the two versions, both the wife of the Sergeant-Major in the play and the Sergeant-Major himself in the story threw the paw into the