Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in his article “Fear of the Monster is Really a Kind of Desire” examines the issue of being with a monster or better be the monster ourselves. The desire it can be either for power, freedom, or even just to be the center of attention. “We distrust and loathe the monster at the same time we envy its freedom, and perhaps its sublime despair” (Cohen, 190). People tend to watch scary movies and read monster stories and feel attracted to one of the monsters and wish to be that monster. In Halloween is the only time when a human being can express the realm of the monster they want to be just for a night and celebrate by asking for candy in the neighborhood or having a Halloween party. Every year teenagers and children, also adults
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One of the logical fallacies that I found is Post hoc ergo propter hoc, which means the author assumes that one event causes the other. For example “Times of carnival temporally marginalize the monstrous, but at the same time allow it a safe realm of expression and play: on Halloween everyone is a demon for a night” (Cohen, 191). The author is assuming that in Halloween most people dress up as the monster they desire to be, which led all the expression to come up and also the real actions that a human have by dressing up as a monster. Another logical fallacy found in Cohen article is Begging the Claim, in which the author uses enough evidence to support his claim. Example: “The monster’s eradication functions as an exorcism and, when retold and promulgated, as a catechism. The monastically manufactured Queste del Saint Graal serves as an ecclesiastically sanctioned antidote to the looser morality of the secular romances...” (Cohen, 192-193). With this the author is explaining that women demons are some sort of fond of romances used their bodies to charm the men who sees them. Since monster stand as symbol of human vulnerability, in this case the demon ladies took advantage of her features to get the men’s attention. This “episode valorizes the celibacy so central to the author’s belief system (and so difficult to enforce) while inculcating a lesson in morality for the …show more content…
One logical fallacy that I found in his writing is Red Herring where the author use a diversionary tactic that avoids the key issues, by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them. For example “The unknown evil, in this case, will not turn out to be a stuntman in a rubber suit. In this one way, we can all agree: those who mean to do us harm are real and they are among us. Now the present of the United States must decide how to defend us without purveying fear and its conjoined twin, hatred” (Genoways, 132). Genoways is talking about the dangerous of the monster and then he avoids the statement by saying that the president of the United States have to decide how to defend us. The monsters are the evil thing that humans are afraid of, the President of the United States can’t do nothing to defend us from something that we create on our imagination. Another logical fallacies that I found is Begging the Claim, in which the author claim is validated. For example, “This fear of the unknown, of that future that lies just past the horizon, has been with us always. To contain and put a face to it, our imagination has conjured everything from leviathans of the deep to beasts part-human and part-animal to a woman with snakes for hair and a gaze that turns men to stone” (Genoways, 130). The author have a valid argument since he present
One of the logical fallacies that I found is Post hoc ergo propter hoc, which means the author assumes that one event causes the other. For example “Times of carnival temporally marginalize the monstrous, but at the same time allow it a safe realm of expression and play: on Halloween everyone is a demon for a night” (Cohen, 191). The author is assuming that in Halloween most people dress up as the monster they desire to be, which led all the expression to come up and also the real actions that a human have by dressing up as a monster. Another logical fallacy found in Cohen article is Begging the Claim, in which the author uses enough evidence to support his claim. Example: “The monster’s eradication functions as an exorcism and, when retold and promulgated, as a catechism. The monastically manufactured Queste del Saint Graal serves as an ecclesiastically sanctioned antidote to the looser morality of the secular romances...” (Cohen, 192-193). With this the author is explaining that women demons are some sort of fond of romances used their bodies to charm the men who sees them. Since monster stand as symbol of human vulnerability, in this case the demon ladies took advantage of her features to get the men’s attention. This “episode valorizes the celibacy so central to the author’s belief system (and so difficult to enforce) while inculcating a lesson in morality for the …show more content…
One logical fallacy that I found in his writing is Red Herring where the author use a diversionary tactic that avoids the key issues, by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them. For example “The unknown evil, in this case, will not turn out to be a stuntman in a rubber suit. In this one way, we can all agree: those who mean to do us harm are real and they are among us. Now the present of the United States must decide how to defend us without purveying fear and its conjoined twin, hatred” (Genoways, 132). Genoways is talking about the dangerous of the monster and then he avoids the statement by saying that the president of the United States have to decide how to defend us. The monsters are the evil thing that humans are afraid of, the President of the United States can’t do nothing to defend us from something that we create on our imagination. Another logical fallacies that I found is Begging the Claim, in which the author claim is validated. For example, “This fear of the unknown, of that future that lies just past the horizon, has been with us always. To contain and put a face to it, our imagination has conjured everything from leviathans of the deep to beasts part-human and part-animal to a woman with snakes for hair and a gaze that turns men to stone” (Genoways, 130). The author have a valid argument since he present