Essay On Monsters In Modern Society

Why do we as a people fear monsters and similar entities? Throughout history people have created stories centered around monsters who would terrorize communities. These stories would be used to rationalize findings they couldn’t understand. These monsters were used to rationalize dieses, deaths and many other occurrences. These monsters still persist in stories today because over time they would evolve past what they stood for and would become symbols of our primal fears.
There are many monsters that are capable of epitomizing certain fears and they are capable of representing more than one facet of our primal fears. One example would be zombies they represent a fear of death and disease. They are corroded sacks of flesh whom live to serve a singular purpose, to consume human flesh with no care or recollection for those they feed on. Another more modern example …show more content…
Due to the way our justice system works people cannot be prosecuted for any crimes without valid proof (this excludes word of mouth). We are also a more scientifically advanced society so we rarely have use for our imagination when it comes to explaining. We instead we use scientific observations to explain diseases, deaths and disappearances. So in a modern society we have very little reasoning to fear monsters and the supernatural yet we still do.
Monsters in modern times serve a different purpose than those of historic monsters. Monsters historically have been used as scapegoats during times of fear. While in modern times their purpose is to entertain the public by giving them a false illusion of fear in forms like cinema, stories and gaming. Monsters play a large role in the horror genre with movies like World War Z, Alien vs Predator and Jaws. Monsters are iconic now and aren’t seen as something that you fear regularly but as fictional characters that are used to create a false atmosphere of fear for a short