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...The Monster and the Human Identification with Pain The concept of the ‘monster’ within literary history has been a complexity of constructs in which the relationship between the monster and the victim is interwoven as the determination of who represents which aspect often shifts back and forth between entities. As in evidence by the story Frankenstein in which the creature is often victim and the true monster is always the Baron who made the creature, the defining attributes of the monster are not always simple concepts. The monster is what is behind the closed door or at the shadowed end of the hallway, the fear of what is unknown as it...
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...?MONSTER’S BALL Monster’s Ball is the highly acclaimed and Oscar winner film of 2001. The apparent theme of the movie is racism, hatred, communication gap, career failure, loneliness, and family problem. It is a dark and loud story about sinfulness, recklessness, killing, racial hates. It is a story where mother beats her son; father and son go to the prostitute in search of satisfaction, the alcoholic lovers fall in hasty sex. The relationship of the characters among themselves is conditional. They are in relationship because they need it for keeping solace and comfort in their lives. The strong point of the movie is its powerful and well crafted story. The basic attributes of the narrative of this film...
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... Monsters Opening Monsters refer to horrendous creatures that are usually gruesome and dreadful. Monsters are also normally identified with large and enormous figures. They are immortal and do not operate as humans. Most of them have been associated with destruction and evil. As history depicts, monsters were separated from the society of humans since the ancient times. However, other people have described monsters as being fictitious and nonexistent. This is where by; monsters were described in accordance to the characteristic of a person. For instance; most were described from words such as horrible, weird, wild and inhuman. Still, some people believe that monsters are real and present in the society. However, it has been noted... that it...
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.... Beowulf is sure that God is on his side and will help him destroy the evil Grendel. In a sense, Beowulf is confident that God is protecting him from evil. It is clear from the gifts Beowulf receives after he slays Grendal that victory over evil has many rewards.
The next monster Beowulf encounters is Grendel’s mothers who is outraged by her son’s death. She embodies the theme of revenge. Although she is not as large or as powerful as Grendel she is determeined to find her sons remains and kill his murderers. She goes to the hall in order to hunt the killers. Although, at some point she must realize that she is no match for all of the men, her power is fuelled by her anger over her only son’s death, "she...
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...of Wales.
Despite the changes in their appearances, Wuornos remains a monster, possessing inhuman and horrible cruelty as each murder surpasses the last in gruesomeness; Merrick remains mishapen and inarticulate at times, forever condemed to be the animal afflicted with some congenital malformation, despite the amount of money spent on tailored suits or haircuts and colognes. The character of Bytes appears again and again as the sinister side of society, constantly reminding Merrick of his past and fomenting the derision and cruelty Merrick longs to excape from.
Each character finds excape; Wuornos is turned in by her lover and is executed, both in the movie and in real life in 2002. Merrick is the...
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...Andreas Huyssens Concept of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1926) A Look at German Films and Dramas Between 1920-1939 Administrator Academia-Research.Com 01:54 06 December 2009
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Fritz Lang’s silent film ‘Metropolis’, screened in 1927, is considered by connoisseurs to be among the top three films in its genre. Based on a script written by his wife, Thea von Harbou and himself, the film looks almost exactly a century ahead and projects their vision of the future. The theme centers around what a Megapolis of sixty million people will look like and whether the extant class divides would have faded away. However, it takes an unusual turn, in that it brings an android or robot to life as a vamp, a pseudo-whore who... Huyssens Concept of...
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...The Gothic Monster and Victorian Morals The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) by H. G. Wells, and Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker are all examples of Gothic fiction. The following discussion will focus on the monster or monsters in each of these three novels. The monsters similarities and differences will be considered; whether it is their actions or their appearance that makes them monsters will be examined, and the Victorian social taboos that the novels and their monsters address will be identified.
Despite sharing a genre and being published within eleven years of one another the novels, on a superficial consideration of their plot have little in common... after a wolf...
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...Introduction Frank Langella is an American film actor, who won Tony Award three times in his life. According to essay “The Monster in my head”, Frank Langella addresses the concept of daily struggle, fear and uncertainty. Langella was troubled by monsters in his childhood. The author believed that the result of trouble was due to the formation of mental images by watching horror films. Langella grew older and realized that monster has changed from an amorphous flying object and man wrapped in greyish in to real fears. Two strategies have been described in this article. The process of life progresses from simple imaginary nightmares to real life fears that is vividly explained in the...
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...In mentioning monsters, most kids and adults alike would shake. A number of individuals have just encountered monsters from the films, which has resulted in most people asking whether such creatures exist. Well, the response is NO and YES. NO because certain monsters are as a result of human fancy, and YES because several monsters do exist past just the tag monster alone. All the same, there are those that are actually real. The challenge is determining whether they exist or not, and this requires firm subscription to the different available religious and/or spiritual beliefs. According to Shaw (p23), in Where Monsters Hide, of all the...
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...Murderous monsters Despite the horrific, gruesome nature of the crimes perpetrated by alleged or convicted murderers,there seems to be dissonance in the media’s depiction of the crime and its portrayal of these perpetrators. To some extent, one might argue that the media’s depiction of these perpetrators glamorizes their inhumane actions turning them into celebrities. Seltzer (2-3) presumes that the media plays a pivotal role in feeding into America’s “wound culture”, which he defines as American’s preoccupation with torn or open bodies and the collective gathering around the wound, trauma or shock. The media’s extensive coverage of the atrocious crimes exacerbates the public’s...
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