Essay About Monster Story
To ask the question; “Why do you enjoy a good monster story?” Is to ask why do we enjoy life itself. There are a multitude of reasons; Real life incorporation, Excellent characters, or perhaps it’s the setting that each and every story takes place, the setting that ties the plot, characters and history together. These three are for myself what makes a good story in general, not just for a monster story.
For what makes a good or even excellent story? A shred of truth can go a long ways. In fact with every film today there is some shred of truth that they originated from. Take Schindler’s List a true story of Oskar Schindler during World War II – a man who saw the Jewish Holocaust in Holland and changed from corrupt businessman to a concerned …show more content…
employer, or even Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was based off of a real serial killer. All if not a very good majority of our horror stories have real-life incorporations to make the story good to us the viewers. It’s not just films that have excellent incorporations of life, Bram Stoker’s Dracula was literally based on some Impaler from the fifteenth century. As he wasn’t the best monster we got, Dracula is what all consider to be the ultimate evil and certainly set the bar for all others. As for why our culture enjoys monsters, Characters has an impacting role on the story.
How a character is portrayed in fiction and in film matters. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula; reading it the character Dracula was not some villain or character we could just connect to. However in the film it is quite the opposite, the character Dracula is a character with the kind of depth that people can relate to as a whole. Even in the film Van Helsing that Dracula portrayed by Richard Roxburgh had qualities that we relate ourselves with. Monstrous stories have long been in our people’s literature, we for some reason can’t see a female as the villain in any scenario. Carmilla, the true first vampire is an excellent example of this, Carmilla is a female who just so happens to go on murder sprees the same as what we depicted vampires to do now. Whatever the case male or female; monster or man. For a good many stories like The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Jekyll states that man is the monster; Jekyll had created a serum that turned him into Mr. Edward Hyde, over time he lost control of these urges, becoming even addicted to the serum. Temptation in which man falls and grasps at a lower rope, the easy way out of any situation. A character in theory is only as good as the setting it is in. Setting, time and place.
Really they’re all in one while different things all together. In the monster stories that we humans continue to love for generations, have certain settings they are set in. For most of the stories it’s some gloomy made place that has some history tied into it; Dracula focused more around his legends tying him to Transylvania, but he was for the most part in England. These settings convey emotions to us, some powerful others not so much, the reason we love these stories in their settings is it may provide us with a comfort that, perhaps we know they weren't real, but that they don’t exist in our time anymore, aside from reading and watching it in films and literature. Familiar settings help us to relate to the stories connect with them on a more personal base, make the experience of reading or watching it more personal than others. The setting ties into the overall plot of the story as well.
Plot is essential to every story, not just for a layout of how one is going to write or tell the story, but a predictable plot helps people who’re stressed a bit, the predictability helps calm them put them in a world where they know what’s going to happen next. In Dracula it’s the classic good versus evil scenario that history tells us through time and time again. Everything ties the plot together and vice versa, characters are needed in a setting to advance a plot, and the plot is there to give the characters in a setting purpose in their
life.
Without these elements would we really love these stories? As to answer this question; “Why do you enjoy a good monster story?” perhaps the answer is more simpler than it really seems. Perhaps the question is to be read as; “Why do I enjoy a good monster story?” which of course then I just answered. Elements of history tied into the plot and story that gives the characters in their settings purpose.
For what makes a good or even excellent story? A shred of truth can go a long ways. In fact with every film today there is some shred of truth that they originated from. Take Schindler’s List a true story of Oskar Schindler during World War II – a man who saw the Jewish Holocaust in Holland and changed from corrupt businessman to a concerned …show more content…
employer, or even Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was based off of a real serial killer. All if not a very good majority of our horror stories have real-life incorporations to make the story good to us the viewers. It’s not just films that have excellent incorporations of life, Bram Stoker’s Dracula was literally based on some Impaler from the fifteenth century. As he wasn’t the best monster we got, Dracula is what all consider to be the ultimate evil and certainly set the bar for all others. As for why our culture enjoys monsters, Characters has an impacting role on the story.
How a character is portrayed in fiction and in film matters. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula; reading it the character Dracula was not some villain or character we could just connect to. However in the film it is quite the opposite, the character Dracula is a character with the kind of depth that people can relate to as a whole. Even in the film Van Helsing that Dracula portrayed by Richard Roxburgh had qualities that we relate ourselves with. Monstrous stories have long been in our people’s literature, we for some reason can’t see a female as the villain in any scenario. Carmilla, the true first vampire is an excellent example of this, Carmilla is a female who just so happens to go on murder sprees the same as what we depicted vampires to do now. Whatever the case male or female; monster or man. For a good many stories like The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Jekyll states that man is the monster; Jekyll had created a serum that turned him into Mr. Edward Hyde, over time he lost control of these urges, becoming even addicted to the serum. Temptation in which man falls and grasps at a lower rope, the easy way out of any situation. A character in theory is only as good as the setting it is in. Setting, time and place.
Really they’re all in one while different things all together. In the monster stories that we humans continue to love for generations, have certain settings they are set in. For most of the stories it’s some gloomy made place that has some history tied into it; Dracula focused more around his legends tying him to Transylvania, but he was for the most part in England. These settings convey emotions to us, some powerful others not so much, the reason we love these stories in their settings is it may provide us with a comfort that, perhaps we know they weren't real, but that they don’t exist in our time anymore, aside from reading and watching it in films and literature. Familiar settings help us to relate to the stories connect with them on a more personal base, make the experience of reading or watching it more personal than others. The setting ties into the overall plot of the story as well.
Plot is essential to every story, not just for a layout of how one is going to write or tell the story, but a predictable plot helps people who’re stressed a bit, the predictability helps calm them put them in a world where they know what’s going to happen next. In Dracula it’s the classic good versus evil scenario that history tells us through time and time again. Everything ties the plot together and vice versa, characters are needed in a setting to advance a plot, and the plot is there to give the characters in a setting purpose in their
life.
Without these elements would we really love these stories? As to answer this question; “Why do you enjoy a good monster story?” perhaps the answer is more simpler than it really seems. Perhaps the question is to be read as; “Why do I enjoy a good monster story?” which of course then I just answered. Elements of history tied into the plot and story that gives the characters in their settings purpose.