Metaphors Of Real World Fear

Real World Fears Typically, fictional monsters that are known worldwide are scary because of the metaphors and allegories used behind them. How can a fictional monster be used as an allegory or metaphor? Simple, a person’s basic fears are derived from a fictional character from a horror film. For example, Leather face, from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, is a character that wears a mask of human skin and kills people who have sinned with his chainsaw (Liebesman). He serves as a real world fear because most individuals who sin know that there is not anything they can do to stop him from execution. His character does not express any emotions, so it is difficult for him to see reasoning.
Allegories and metaphors represent ideas or hidden meanings. An allegory can come from a picture, a movie, or a poem. However, it interprets them as a hidden meaning that can either be a moral lesson or a political view. A metaphor is a type of figure
Leatherface is described to have a mental disability that makes him lacks emotions. This gives his victims a disadvantage because they cannot apply reasoning to him in order to prevent his killings. For example, if the victim threatened to kill one of Leatherface’s loved ones as an act of self defense, Leatherface would probably kill the victim and his loved one together since he does not express empathy. Also, Leatherface grew up with a family who killed people for a living; their family business was a butchery. His family were also a group of cannibals as shown in the film after they kill the town sheriff and eat his remains (Angel). These acts gave Leatherface the reasons to believe that killing is normal. Therefore, Leatherface’s lack of emotion and a sense of empathy creates this real life fear of those with similar characteristics. This also leads him to create a menacing mask made from the skin of his victims to hide his emotionless