The Monkey’s Paw: the Light Footprint of British History

The Monkeys mitt The Light Footprint of British Hi bilgewater by M. Lutfi / 1104391 Written in 1906, The Monkeys Paw is a story about Whites family who received a dried monkeys handwriting, dubbed as a magical item which bequeath grant their three cravinges, from oneness of their friend, Sergeant-Major Morris. Taking it as a joke, they wished for two hundred pounds, which they later becharm in the expense of the death of their son, Herbert. Hopeless, they then wished for their son to distinguish back into life, only to realize that those wish wont become true.This story is particularly interesting because the author chose to portray the life of an aver come on English family life, and how they dispense with issues such as death of a family member, while still talking about the larger issues in the Victorian age, such as industrial Revolution, the belief to the spiritual or mythical deity, and cultural issues connect to the imperialism. In the start of this story, the learne r is presented with the visit of Sergeant-Major Morris to the Whites family villa, with a souvenir which happened to be a magic monkeys paw from India.After this scene, readers can infer that theres a cultural exchange from the colonise country (as India is one of the country that was colonized by England). The magic monkey paw might be a souvenir or a charm given by locals at that age, giving a charm to people going oversea was considered to be a symbol of tribute. By accepting the paw, Sergeant-Major Morris successfully brought a piece of Indian conclusion relic to the UK, and it as well as could be read as the writers attempt to say that behind the colonialism, theres some apply of peace and understanding left.Then the story moves forward to the act in which they doubted the effect of the charm. The act could be read as an attempt to introduce how people tend to question the spiritual belief system. In the age where new ideas, founding in science, and innovations were praise d a lot, people started to question everything how things work, how the earth functions, and so on. Peoples tend to moot things when they see the proof, especially when the social situation also pledged uncertainty. After they wished to the monkeys paw, they had their wish come true, but in the expense of their son passed away.If the readers read critically to the story, they can find two issues being addressed here by the writer how ones life revolves, and a nonher bigger issue the darker side of Industrial Revolution. From the aforementioned scene, the writer hides the message about how ones life revolve we gain one thing in our life, then we also lose another. You cant be greedy and wish for everything in this life to be picture-perfect its a given. This way, the writer addressed, and criticized, eloquently the greediness of imperialists. Another thing to note from this scene is that the Industrial Revolution is not all that friendly to the humanity.The drift, which starts in the middle of 19th century and ends before World War, is a movement which focused to change the manufacturing process from manual to automatic, using machines to achieve such goal. However, it caused significant damage to the society and labor issues is not an exception. Lots of people became victim either became dead, lost their job, or got below-average wages. In this story, the cruelty of Industrial Revolution is depicted subtly, but it did leave an impression to the readers. The story reached its end by the jibe wishing their son come back into life to the monkeys paw, but their wish was unfulfilled.In this scene, it can be concurred that the writers attempt to remind people to remain rational when times went rough doing irrational things wont help the situation at all, as depicted in this scene. The Monkeys Paw is a good read for those interested in the British history. The story flows nicely, the character was depicted vividly, and the diction is not too hard to understa nd. The issues discussed here are also explained in a way that wont make anyone frown, even though the story talks about one of the darkest part of the world history.