Literary Monsters: The Rape of Humanity In his essay Monster Culture (Seven Theses)‚ Jeffrey Jerome Cohen outlines seven defining characteristics of the literary monster. He makes the claim that literary monsters are each possessed of these seven theses‚ which act as a common denominator across monster culture. While each of these theses is present‚ there is one aspect of monster culture that Cohen fails to discuss‚ and that is prevalent in enough different monster works that it warrants attention
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life‚ and claimed that banging was his life. After many years of still believing this‚ he eventually realized that the thug life was no longer for him‚ and that gangs were a problem on society and the "Afrikan" race(page 382-383). In his book "Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member"‚ he tells of his life story and how he came and left the gang life. For thirteen years he was a member of the Eight Tray Gangsters‚ a set of the Crips‚ and throughout the book he explains‚ sometimes in full
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the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley both Victor Frankenstein and his creature have monstrous characteristics. They both fit under the definition of monster. The creature is a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness‚ deformity‚ wickedness‚ or cruelty. Victor is one who deviates from normal or acceptable behavior or character. In society a monster could be a person who does awful things. They both do awful things all throughout the book. The creature murdered people‚ but Victor could have stopped
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four genetic bases‚ so is the law that in order to survive‚ there must be more than one entity in a species. It is amongst nature’s simplest rules that most mammalian species thrive through their reproductive nature. At the core of Frankenstein’s monster‚ I believe that a large portion of his crippling loneliness is due to his realization that he will be unable to find another like himself. Whether unconsciously‚ or consciously‚ he understands that he is unable to do what evolution has told him to
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Beloved Beast takes place forty-eight years after the first book in the Ravenswood Chronicles‚ Beloved Monster‚ to find that the protagonist Lucas Madden is now a widower of over eleven years and working for England’s SIS for the war effort during WWII. The reformed libertine now known as Luke Newman devotes himself to the missions his nephew Fred Parker‚ a SIS officer‚ assigns him to abate his loneliness. When Luke is given the task of protecting a beautiful retired spy‚ whose identity has been
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Monsters Greek mythology is usually not given that much attention by the average person. I personally believe the obtainable information that is offered by Greek mythology is not pursued too often by people in today’s society due to the fact that they do not think there is a point of doing so. I myself was one of these people who had this closed mindset. People do not realize that a relation can be formed with the meaning behind some of these Greek creatures. These Greek creatures are not just a
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He Who Fights Monsters “He who fights monsters must see to it that in the process he himself does not become a monster.” Friedrich Nietzsche raises a crucial point: in a search for justice‚ how can one assure that one will not be consumed by one’s cause? The novel The Round House by Louise Erdrich focuses on Joe Coutts’s quest for justice and on how narrowly he avoids Nietzsche’s prophesied fate. Since the tribe Joe belongs to has no authority to prosecute Linden‚ the man who rapes his mother
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Steve Harmon‚ Monster? Steve Harmon is a 16 year old African American boy. He is being accused of being the lookout for a robbery that went wrong and resulted in the murder of Alguinaldo Nesbit‚ the owner of the establishment that was robbed. Bobo Evans and James King‚ the perpetrators of the crime‚ testified that Steve was the lookout and that he wanted in on the robbery. Steve was seen walking away from the store before the robbery took place. He then lied about being in the store and being the
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Invisible Man‚ by Ralph Ellison‚ and The Round House‚ by Louise Erdrich. These two books are vastly different. They take place in different times‚ different places‚ and a different way of thinking. However‚ their underlying plot is actually very similar. They both revolve around Identity and what guides our characters to find or receive one for themselves and the factors that drive the search. Namely‚ discrimination and pressure from people who become close to them and the law. Invisible man‚ by
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I had everything. Loving family‚ supportive friends‚ good grades‚ degree in ballet… etc. Not much‚ but there’s no shortage for anything. But life isn’t always perfect‚ especially when the monster inside you starts to show. I was at the dance studio half an hour earlier before the rehearsal starts. Determined to be the best as I got the first role for the upcoming ballet production “Swan Lake”. I got all the applause and compliments from all the musical directors and choreographers
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