Discuss the writers use of the supernatural Essay

The ii stories resemble each opposite with the idea they communicate with the reader, that people should think of the supernatural. In the sere Arm, Thomas Hardy develops why we should fear and view the supernatural by showing that by mocking Gertrude about her medicines and preclude curses, Farmer stupefy demiseed up with a dead give-and-take and a dead wife. He also ended up c namee every his land because he could not endure staying in the closure with everyone gossiping about him. Also by keeping the tempo of the bilgewater fast and building up to all the supernatural events keeps us tense.In the putter arounds Paw, Sergeant Major Morris warns the White family about the aftermaths of the offeres the helping hand grants. However the White family do not take heed of the admonition and take return of the paw and in doing so, they end up with their countersign dead, Mrs. White acting senselessly to study and bring back her watchword and Mr. White having to wish hi s discussion back to the grave. The author is trying to part us that if you do not respect the supernatural and take advantage of it, you will feel its wrath. The two stories be alike in other ways. Both stories involve young innocent people suffering.In the scalawags Paw Herbert died for his familys foolishness. Whilst in the Withered Arm it was Rhodas and Farmer Lodges son that was innocently sent to the gallows. another(prenominal) similarity is that people that were selfish earlier on in the stories are punished in the end. Mr. White is self-seeking at the start of the Monkeys Paw and does not take Sergeant Major Morris advice and his son dies as a result. In the Withered Arm Farmer Lodge is punished for his negligence shown to his son and his failure to accept the responsibility for his son. The consequence for this is the eventual hanging of his only son.Also both stories have teetotal twists. In the Monkeys Paw the family wishes for two hundred pounds and after the money doesnt appear straight away, Herbert says Well I weart see the money, and I bet I never shall. The wish eventually does come true and the money is handed over to the family save only as an insurance payout for Herberts death at the factory. So the irony is that Herbert will never actually see the money. In the Withered Arm the ironic twist is that when Gertrude was waiting for a hanging she got so desperate that she used to pray for a hanging O Lord, hang some guilty or innocent person soon It sullen out her prayers were answered but the valet de chambre seen to be in the wrong dark out to be Farmer Lodges and Rhoda Brooks son but it seemed the son was wrongfully charged with arson. At the hanging, Farmer Lodge and Rhoda were present in the crowd and once Gertrude had realized the hung man must be their son, she entered a sense of shock. This proved too much for her and she died. The irony is that she prayed for a man to be hung, so that she could cure herself but the man in the end was her husbands son and this did the opposite of curing her and the shock of it all ended her life.In conclusion, the writers use the supernatural to show the reader that if you guy the supernatural, it will backfire on you and you will feel the consequences greatly. Also they try and make you scared of the supernatural by making the paranormal events choke to normal people. Meaning it could have been you instead.