Compare and Contrast A Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy and The Monkeys Pa

Compare and Contrast A Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy and The Monkeys Paw by W.W. JacobsIn this assay I am going to explain the similarities and differencesbetween The diminish leg and The monkeys paw. Both of these textswere written before 1914 by two different people. Thomas Hardy wroteThe withered arm and W.W. Jacobs wrote A monkeys paw.The withered arm is a short story about a milkmaid who had an affairwith a high class farmer. When the farmer gets a bare-ass wife, themilkmaid becomes jealous.In a nightmare, the milkmaid who is c totallyed Rhoda Brooks sees the newwife she had been obsessing over for the past few days in a horrific wraith gloats over her new husband. In this nightmare Rhoda grabsthe apparition and feels her arm as if it were real as she throws thespectre to the floor. The ghost is g atomic number 53 when she looks down. Thefarmers new wife, the next day, finds a new mark on her forearm inthe shape of a hand in the same place that Rhoda had grabbed theapparition . Rhoda and Gertrude, the farmers wife soon become earnestfriends as her arm becomes increasingly more serious. EventuallyGertrude persuades Rhoda to get her to take her to a wizard calledconjurer Trendle who is a local magic man. Eventually Rhoda takes herand conjurer Trendle gives her advice but does not give a solution toher trouble. They return home to the village.A year later after Rhoda and her son had left the village Gertrudsarm is becoming steadily worse and she is using all types of potionsand magick on it but nothing seems to make it any worse so she goes tosee conjurer Trendle for one last time. This time he gives her asolution, she must touch the neck of a recently hanged man while thebody is... ...ellin the rural reach of A withered arm.The time frame for each story is also different, the monkeys paw alltakes place over a few weeks where as a withered arm has the storylasting for over a year. The time frame they are set in gives them abig difference as it distingui shes one from the other easily.I think that the story which is most striking out of these two has tobe The monkeys paw. This story is a better length to not take a whileto read and the plot seems better as a whole. Each character seems tohave obviously different personalities that they use all the time andthese are distinctly separate from the characters of a withered arm. Ilike the way that the ending of this story is a cliff hanging, we arenot told what Herbert looks like after he was brought back to life weare just told about the sigh of dismay from Mr Whites wife.