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Monsters: what they are, or really what we are.

Published on Nov 24, 2015

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Monsters: what they are, or really what we are.

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Definition and Etymology of the word Monster.

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Certain definitions of a Monster are:


A. One who deviates from normal or acceptable behavior or character
B. A threatening force
C. An animal of strange or terrifying shape
D. A person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty
E. One that is highly successful

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The Etymology of the word Monster is as following:
Late Middle English: from Old French monstre, from Latin monstrum ‘portent or monster,’ from monere ‘warn.’

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Monsters in Folkore

Where the fear all started
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In Folkore, monsters stretch to the outermost of our imagination.

Anything from a Grendel or a dragon in the middle ages, to something that is still said to exist but has never been proven, like Bigfoot.

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Many of these monsters, in folkore, come from stories, written and oral, that have survived through the centuries. Many of these stories have very descriptive details, or good imagery, about the monster(s).


Because of this, when we read or listen to the story that involves this monster, we can imagine him, not only, from our perspective, but from the creator's point of view.

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A lot of what drives these stories to survive is well, frankly:

Our fear of the unknown
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Monsters in the Media

Are they really the one's who should be called monsters, or is it us?
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The media has always impacted how we view acts, if they are monstrous or not, and how we view people or things, if they are monsters or not. An example of this in a more present day situation, is like the picture behind. It shows a regular muslim man crying for help, but the media has made him resemble a terrorist. This is a twisted view that the media has given him.
Another example from much earlier is the Salem Witch trials. In the Salem Witch Trials, everyone was on edge that some woman they knew was a witch. Of course, witches don't exist, but people were sentenced to death, because the media instilled fear into people and in this way the media and its ability to spread like a plague killed a lot of innocent women.

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Monsters hold their position in society as being the fear that drives us. For example, when I was younger my parents told me that if I didn’t go to bed at a certain time the monsters might come after me. When your 5 or 6 years old that makes you scared and so you do whatever it is. Monsters are also used also as a way for us to get as close to making something in our imagination real and believable. Everyone wants to be the first person to find Bigfoot, because everyone wants to, not only have the glory, but to find something that is supernatural and something that you dream up and draw as a child.

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Monsters are so prevalent in our society because everyone one of has some sort of monstrous characteristic inside of us. None of us want to admit or submit to that monster inside of us, so we think up or focus on other people or things that could be or are seen as monsters.

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Monsters are symbols and metaphors for the evil that is in all of us

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The anxieties that this arouses, are the fears that:

  • We will go to Hell
  • This monster inside of us will take us over
  • We won't be ourselves anymore
  • Someone else will see that we have a monster inside of us
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Two quotations that I thought were really good at describing Monsters

were a quotation by the joker in The Dark Night, and a quotation by friedrich nietzsche
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The Joker Quotation is all about how people realize that they have monsters type qualities

and that when one realizes this, they have lost the innonce that a child would have.
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The Friedrich Nietzsche quotation is all about how people

Who look at others as monsters, will be become more monstrous themselves
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