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Allusion in The Monkey's Paw

Allusion Examples in The Monkey's Paw:

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"Arabian Nights..."   (I.)

Mrs. White alludes to One Thousand and One Nights (first translated as Arabian Nights), a collection of Arabic folktales. In of the more well-known stories from the collection, a man named Aladdin makes wishes from a magic lamp, but the wishes do not always turn out exactly as he would like. This foreshadows the story’s eventual outcome and the trickery of the monkey’s paw.

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"Arabian Nights..."   (I.)

An allusion to One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of stories and folk tales written in Arabic and collected over many centuries. 

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