Monster the Creation of our Wild Imaginations Are monsters a reflection of our fears or a way to escape the harsh truth about reality into the wild side of our minds? In today’s society monsters play a big role in our lives, we see monsters in movies, shows and stories that people tell us. Monsters are a reflection of our fears, the creativity of our minds and the believes of our cultures. Some of these monsters fascinate people because of their abilities and their way of living.
A monster is an unknown imagery animal, often described in cultures and mythological stories. In the middle ages Greeks had a tradition of using monsters as a way to represent the principles of the Christian doctrine. Monsters have many different meanings that are …show more content…
In today’s society we are surrounded by an abundant of monsters such as zombies, wolfs, vampires etc. Such monsters are used to strike fear in kids and teens. These monsters represent the fears we as kids had such as monsters under the bed or in the closet. Such stories where told by our elders to scare us into doing or behaving better they use the creativity of their minds to make believable monsters that will strike fear in the young and kids. Monsters exist till this day because it not only represents the fear of the unknown but it’s also a big part in the Hollywood movies such as the horror movies like The Conjuring, Annabelle, Mama etc. According to Stephen T. Asma, professor of Philosophy at Columbia Collage Chicago, explains humans are vulnerable therefore monsters are a representation of the fear of the unknown (par.6). We as humans make up such monsters to justify the fear of the unknown, the fear of what we grew up knowing and the stories that we heard. An example will be the story of the shadow man people talk a lot about this it was a big tall man with a hat but all you will see is his shadow. This particular character was only believe to be seen by little kids and young teens they described that he will appear behind doors and in places with little light, but all you will see is his shadow and hat no face or body. Such character strike fear in the …show more content…
In today’s society we are surrounded with a lot of good things and good people, but we also have bad people that we label as monsters. The main reason we label people as monsters is based on the actions that they decided to do because to us such actions are unhuman. Around the world there has been shocking news of people committing not crime but actions that question their humanity. As human beings we make up monsters because we are afraid of the harsh things we are capable of doing but we are also afraid if someone or something could harm us in such way. According to Mathias Clasen, Danish scholar of horror fiction and the author/editor of three non-fiction books, explains we as human beings have a common fear because our minds think alike (par.12). As Humans we are not only afraid of the harm that can be done to us but we are afraid of the action that some people are capable of and that’s why we label them as monsters. Although some people might considered our actions a way to label us as monster the meaning of a monsters is a mythical creature or animal that’s only purpose is to hurt and scare people. Monsters are not people monsters are stories we grew up with and heard about, stories of fiction characters that were made up to strike fear in kids and young teens. Stories with meaning and
A monster is an unknown imagery animal, often described in cultures and mythological stories. In the middle ages Greeks had a tradition of using monsters as a way to represent the principles of the Christian doctrine. Monsters have many different meanings that are …show more content…
In today’s society we are surrounded by an abundant of monsters such as zombies, wolfs, vampires etc. Such monsters are used to strike fear in kids and teens. These monsters represent the fears we as kids had such as monsters under the bed or in the closet. Such stories where told by our elders to scare us into doing or behaving better they use the creativity of their minds to make believable monsters that will strike fear in the young and kids. Monsters exist till this day because it not only represents the fear of the unknown but it’s also a big part in the Hollywood movies such as the horror movies like The Conjuring, Annabelle, Mama etc. According to Stephen T. Asma, professor of Philosophy at Columbia Collage Chicago, explains humans are vulnerable therefore monsters are a representation of the fear of the unknown (par.6). We as humans make up such monsters to justify the fear of the unknown, the fear of what we grew up knowing and the stories that we heard. An example will be the story of the shadow man people talk a lot about this it was a big tall man with a hat but all you will see is his shadow. This particular character was only believe to be seen by little kids and young teens they described that he will appear behind doors and in places with little light, but all you will see is his shadow and hat no face or body. Such character strike fear in the …show more content…
In today’s society we are surrounded with a lot of good things and good people, but we also have bad people that we label as monsters. The main reason we label people as monsters is based on the actions that they decided to do because to us such actions are unhuman. Around the world there has been shocking news of people committing not crime but actions that question their humanity. As human beings we make up monsters because we are afraid of the harsh things we are capable of doing but we are also afraid if someone or something could harm us in such way. According to Mathias Clasen, Danish scholar of horror fiction and the author/editor of three non-fiction books, explains we as human beings have a common fear because our minds think alike (par.12). As Humans we are not only afraid of the harm that can be done to us but we are afraid of the action that some people are capable of and that’s why we label them as monsters. Although some people might considered our actions a way to label us as monster the meaning of a monsters is a mythical creature or animal that’s only purpose is to hurt and scare people. Monsters are not people monsters are stories we grew up with and heard about, stories of fiction characters that were made up to strike fear in kids and young teens. Stories with meaning and