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With close reference to the story's language, structure and content, explain how successful you think Jacobs is in creating an atmosphere of suspense, drama and terror in "the monkeys paw" W.W Jacobs's short story "the monkeys paw" is a typical Victorian horror story. The short horror story was extremely popular with the Victorians, and writers such as Jacobs along with others such as H.G Wells ensured the genres popularity. However the popularity of the short story owed a great deal to the changing socio-economic factors of the time. During the late 1800's and early 1900's educational reform meant that standards of literacy were vastly improved and thus the demand for reading material increased. The short story was accessible and relatively cheap compared too the novels of the time and so the short story became very popular as the Victorians developed a great fondness for this particular form of prose. Along with...

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