Guided Reading Level for the Monkeyã¢â‚¬â„¢s Paw by W.w. Jacobs
| The Monkey's Hand | |
|---|---|
| past West. W. Jacobs | |
| Country | England |
| Linguistic communication | English |
| Genre(due south) | Horror, short story |
| Publication date | September 1902 |
| Text | The Monkey'south Paw at Wikisource |
"The Monkey's Paw" is a horror short story by author W. W. Jacobs, start published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in 1902.[1] In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw, but the wishes come with an enormous toll for interfering with fate.[2]
It has been adapted many times in other media, including plays, films, Telly series, operas, stories and comics, as early on equally 1903.[iii] It was offset adjusted to flick in 1915 as a British silent moving picture directed past Sidney Northcote. The picture show (now lost) starred John Lawson, who also played the main character in Louis N. Parker's 1907 phase play.[four]
Plot [edit]
Illustration for "The Monkey's Paw" by Maurice Greiffenhagen, from Jacobs' short story collection The Lady of the Barge (1902)
The brusque story involves Mr. and Mrs. White and their adult son, Herbert. Sergeant-Major Morris, a friend who served with the British Army in India, comes past for dinner and introduces them to a mummified monkey's hand. An old fakir placed a spell on the paw, so that it would grant three wishes only but with hellish consequences as penalisation for tampering with fate. Morris, having had a horrible experience using the paw, throws it into the fire, but the sceptical Mr. White retrieves it. Before leaving, Morris warns Mr. White of what might happen should he utilise the paw.
Mr. White hesitates at kickoff, believing that he already has everything he wants. At Herbert's proffer, Mr. White flippantly wishes for £200, which will enable him to make the final mortgage payment for his house. When he makes his wish, Mr. White suddenly drops the mitt in surprise, claiming that it moved and twisted like a snake. The following night, an employee arrives at the Whites' dwelling house, telling them that Herbert had been killed in a terrible machine blow that mutilated his trunk. The visitor denies any responsibility for the incident, but makes a goodwill payment to the family of £200, the amount that Mr. White wished for.
A week after the funeral, Mrs. White, furious with grief, insists that her husband use the paw to wish Herbert back to life. Reluctantly, he does then, despite keen unease at the thought of summoning his son'south mutilated and decomposing body. An hour or and so later, there is a knock at the door. Equally Mrs. White fumbles at the locks in a desperate try to open the door, Mr. White becomes terrified and fears that the matter exterior is not the son he loved. He makes his third and last wish, that the knocking would stop. The knocking stops, and he and his wife discover no one at the door.
Notable versions in other media [edit]
The story has been adapted into other media many times, including:
- On 6 Oct 1903, a comedy play opened at London's Haymarket Theatre, starring Cyril Maude as Mr. White and Lena Ashwell as Mrs. White.[v]
- A 1907 stage accommodation by Louis Due north. Parker starred John Lawson.[four] [half-dozen]
- A 1915 picture show version was directed by Sidney Northcote and starred John Lawson (who was in the 1907 stage play).[7]
- A 1919 British silent moving-picture show (director unknown) is known to accept been made, but is at present considered lost.[viii]
- The Monkey'southward Mitt (1923 pic), was directed by Manning Haynes, and starred Moore Marriott, Marie Ault, and Charles Ashton.[7]
- A 17 July 1928 UK radio accommodation was based on the 1910 play.[half-dozen]
- The Monkey'due south Manus (1933 motion picture), with the screenplay by Graham John, and directed by Wesley Ruggles (his last picture with RKO), starred C. Aubrey Smith, Ivan Simpson, and Louise Carter. The motion picture was considered lost[9] until pictures from it were posted online in 2016.[10]
- A 28 May 1946 episode of the BBC Radio series Date with Fear.[6]
- The Monkey's Paw (1948 picture show), screenplay past Norman Lee and Barbara Toy.[11]
- A 16 December 1958 episode of the Britain radio series Thirty-Minute Theatre, starring Carleton Hobbs and Gladys Immature. [6]
- A 1961 film version called Espiritismo (released as Spiritism in the U.s.), directed by Benito Alazraki and starring Nora Veyran, Jose Luis Jiminez, and Jorge Mondragon.[7]
- "The Monkey'southward Paw – A Retelling", aired on Television set on 19 April 1965 in season 3, episode 26 of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, starring Leif Erickson, Jane Wyatt, and Lee Majors.[12]
- An episode of the 1970'due south British television receiver series Orson Welles Great Mysteries.[13]
- An xi July 1980 episode of the CBC Radio serial Nightfall. [6]
- A 1983 Stephen King novel, Pet Sematary, is a re-telling of the story.[14]
- A 17 January 1988 BBC Radio accommodation past Patrick Galvin, presented as part of Fear on Four. It was rebroadcast individually as a Halloween special on 31 October 1993.[six]
- A half-hour televised special broadcast on Channel 4 in 1988, directed by Andrew Barker and starring Alex McAvoy and Patricia Leslie.[fifteen]
- A 1993 episode named Taveez of the Indian television series The Zee Horror Evidence.[6]
- A 2004 adaptation equally a radio play narrated by Christopher Lee in 2004 every bit part of the BBC radio drama series Christopher Lee's Fireside Tales.[16]
- A 2008 Nepali film, Kagbeni, is a loose accommodation of the story.[17]
- The Monkey's Paw (2013 flick) with the screenplay past Macon Blair, and directed by Brett Simmons.[xviii]
Variations and parodies [edit]
A great number of novels, stories, movies, plays and comics are variations or adaptations of the story, featuring similar plots congenital around wishes that go awry in macabre ways, occasionally with references to monkeys' paws or to the story itself.
Run across also [edit]
- Unintended consequences
References [edit]
- ^ "The Monkey's Mitt - story by Jacobs". Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- ^ "David Mitchell on The Monkey's Hand by WW Jacobs – brusk story podcast". The Guardian. Presented by Claire Armitstead, Story read by Ben Hicks, Produced by Susannah Tresilian. 5 Jan 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "The Eternal Grip of Creepshow's 'Dark of the Hand' (S1E5)". 25YL. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ^ a b Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-1936168-68-two.
- ^ Jacobs, W. West.; Parker, Louis N. (1910). The Monkey's Paw: A Story in 3 Scenes. London: Samuel French, Ltd. p. 5.
- ^ a b c d e f g Richard J. Mitt (5 June 2014). Listen in Terror: British Horror Radio from the Advent of Dissemination to the Digital Historic period. Oxford University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN978-0-7190-8148-iv.
- ^ a b c Alan Goble (1 Jan 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 241. ISBN978-3-11-095194-iii.
- ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-1936168-68-ii.
- ^ Jewell, Richard B.; Harbin, Vernon (1982). The RKO Story. New York: Arlington House. p. 57. ISBN0-517-546566.
- ^ "Non lost !". NitrateVille.com . Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- ^ Soister, John T. (2004). Up from the Vault: Rare thrillers of the 1920s and 1930s. McPharland. p. 133. ISBN9780786481859.
- ^ "The Alfred Hitchcock Hr: The Monkey's Paw - A Retelling (1965) - Robert Stevens - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
- ^ "Orson Welles Great Mysteries: Volume 1". Network.
- ^ Winter, Douglas E. (13 November 1983). "Pet Sematary Past Stephen Male monarch (Doubleday. 373 pp. $15.95.)". The Washington Post . Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "The Monkey's Paw (1988)".
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Christopher Lee's Fireside Tales, The Monkey's Paw". BBC.
- ^ Aiming high with Kagbeni. NepaliTimes (04 January 2008). Retrieved on 2020-12-20
- ^ Crimmins, Deirdre (21 June 2014). "THE MONKEY'Due south PAW plays its cards right". Pic Thrills . Retrieved 18 Nov 2021.
External links [edit]
- Westward. W. Jacobs. "The Monkey'southward Paw", The Lady of the Barge at Project Gutenberg
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"The Monkey's Paw" public domain audiobook at LibriVox - "The Monkey'south Paw"; total short story text
- Gaslight edition of the story
- Monkey's Paw Radio Play
- Podcast of "The Monkey's Mitt" equally read past John Lithgow
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw
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