Monster Culture Essay Thesis

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Monster Culture In the first thesis, the author speaks of the vampire’s body as that which lies in fear, desire anxiety and fantasy. He suggests that it should be killed by driving a stake through its heart that will stick it to the ground. The monster, as it is being referred to be pure culture and symbolizes something and not just itself. The thought of killing the vampires can be related to monster movies we watch where they are killed using the stake but never die. Some of them even claim to be five hundred years! The second thesis gives a reason as to why the monster always escapes. It always creates damage then turns immaterial before vanishing only to reappear somewhere else. Killing the monster as many times as possible never really eliminates it, it always reappears as King Arthur did to the monster of Mount Saint Michael. The monster reappeared in a heroic way and destroyed the alien that stalked her. The monsters body is in a corporal and incorporeal form that is the threat to the propensity to move. Each time it reappears it speaks of a new life. In all vampire stories the undead returns in a bit different clothing and each time it is read against contemporary social movements or a specific determining event. …show more content…

Monsters are disturbing hybrids whose bodies do not want to be included in any systematic structuration. The monster is, therefore, dangerous. It always appears at times of crisis as kind of the third term that creates more problems. The power to avoid and undermine has run through the monsters blood since the classic times. The monster also resists any classification built on hierarchy or just binary opposition and instead demands a system that allows mixed response and resistance to integration. The geography of a monster is wide and always full of cultural debate that can never be

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