...A Modern Perspective on the Unethical Making of our own Monsters With the ongoing and advanced progress of scientific technology, we have the opportunity to create anything we want. However, in Mary Shelley's novel ‘Frankenstein’ and the Canadian Space Arm, we went beyond the boundaries of ethics, where we created objects which were incredulous, yet at the same time, they were monsters of our own making. Both creators were nothing less than admirable in their intentions. Nonetheless, in providing both creations with human- like names and features, they violated what I believe to be ethical limits, and as a result they ended up with unethical monsters. I do not believe that it is right to give inanimate objects human like features; when we...
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...on many levels, not because of the sole monster that Victor Frankenstein creates, but because of the monster that Victor had become. It introduces many societal questions about the obvious and not-so-obvious monsters who live amongst us. This is best illustrated in Chapter 10 of the novel, where Victor and the monster finally meet again. Victor Frankenstein is sitting at the top of a glacier in a place of bliss just before he encounters the monster he has created. He speaks of the sun reflecting off the ice and the brilliant snow-covered peaks. His sadness...
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...The monster is revealed as a character of surprising depth and sensitivity. All alone by himself, we realize the monster was as innocent as and defenseless as a baby. He has been suffering with the trials he has faced during his time alone, being hungry, cold, and no shelter. He experiences the world as a kid would, not know anything about it. He had to learn by himself how to find food, make fire, and how to make shelter from the cold or rain. A the monster explains his tale, he sounds surprisingly gentle and peaceful. He did not sound like a true monster would sound. The terrible though is that, every encounter with humanity; he has been met with horror and disgust. The monster does not really mean any harm, but it's just his appearance which makes him such an outcast. He's an outcast and no fault on his own; he has never showed any kind of love or companionship. For this reason, sympathy comes along in the subject because of the life the monster has. He has been treated with such disgust and hatred all his tme and for no good reason. Other readers too probably start to sympathize the monster as well as you hear his story. You realize, the monster isn't really a monster, but sort of a confused child lost in the world. People though, would still treat him as an actual monster. The monster compares himself to those who have shunned him and really starts to believe that he really is a monster. He sees himself in a reflection and is shocked...
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...A movie that has won recognition by the fans and the critics all around the world. Director: David Silverman An American production Gender: Animation/ Adventure/ Comedy Air date: 19th April, 2002 Time: 92 minutes Script: Pete Docter Music: Randy Newman Producer: Jhon Lasseter Awards: 13 Academy Awards and 31 nominations Another magnificent animation by the creators of Toy Story: 4th Pixar movie that is done by the partnership of CGI technology and Disney. Die Monster tells the story of the mosters that had to go to the places because of doors where some people live together to obtain energy in their own world. The best monster James P. Sullivan and his hard-working assistant Mike Wazowski work in the Monsters Company that is the biggest scream processing factory. The monsters’ world’s basic energy source is the people’s childrens’s screams. Monsters believe that children are dangerous and poisonous. Their work and their aim to gain energy according to them is to get into rooms of millions of children and to store their screams in little tubes. They have the connections to get into children’s rooms all around the world. Again in a normal working day, something unusual happens and a little girl gets into their world by mistake. They don’t know what to do because of fear. Sully (voice: John Goodman) who is not normally evil-minded among these strange creatures and his one-eyed friend Mike (voice: Billy Crystal) are one of the most terrified ones by this little girl...
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...Hook The world is filled with monsters but not all of them attack in the physical sense, sometimes the eyes alone are the most powerful weapon of these supernatural creatures. Thesis Sentence Moving on to my interpretation of the true monster in “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” by Fritz Leiber is the girl herself. Context The story is about a freelance photographer Dave, who is currently in a deep financial crisis until a young mysterious woman knocks on his door and changes his fate. This woman has no past experience with modeling and there is nothing specifically special about her either except for her eyes. But despite all this her photographs become a success in the advertising agency and everyone wants to get a hold of her. The trouble however is that she only works in very mysterious circumstances with only the photographer and has a rule that she does not like to followed. The photographer is making money off of her hand over fist, but the temptation to be with her outside of the studio becomes greater and greater, even it means that he has to put an end to his new source of income. Reasoning Behind Thesis I believe that the true monster in the story “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” by Fritz Leiber is the girl because of some of the incidents I found in the story such as 1) How she would have everyone under a spell as soon as someone saw her photograph, 2) How she had very mysteriously powerful senses of knowing what was happening in her surroundings, 3) How a person...
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...why do people enjoy horror movies so much? It is the same kind of concept, something scares and disgusts us, but when it comes to horror films, shows, and etc. we find it to be pleasurable at the same time. Noël Carroll believes that the thing that attracts us to unpleasant feelings, like being scared and disgusted, is due to the monster. The monster is why there is a paradox of horror. Humans are extremely curious beings of life. Doctor Who season 4 episode 11, “Midnight”, demonstrates Carroll’s philosophy behind why people enjoy horror. “Midnight” starts off with the Doctor trying to convince his partner in crime to join him on a visit to a waterfall made of sapphires, which is located on the planet called Midnight, but she refuses, and the Doctor gets on the Crusader Tour Bus with seven strangers. On his way to Midnight Palace, the bus stops due to “engine” problems; however the Doctor quickly figures out that the Crusader Tour Bus is in perfect condition. The mechanic seems to see an odd shadow that appears to be running toward them, but the driver says its nothing and that help is on the way, reassuring the passengers and the bus attendant that everything will be fine. Suddenly, a random but constant knocking begins. The plot has finally come to the “monster”. The passengers start panicking and guessing what could be knocking: a person or maybe rocks falling. But it is neither, the viewer is now eager to find out who or what is knocking. Carroll states, “because horror fictions...
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... created a monster in what I believe to be an attempt to make up for the loss of his mother. The monster itself was not necessarily a “monster”, but after horrible treatment and cruel judgements by people including it’s own creator it became one. The people reacted so negatively to the creation because it was unnatural; this was a recurring idea throughout the novel. In contrast to the unnatural monster, there is an emphasis on the beauty of nature and of what is natural, along with many other elements of romanticism. Frankenstein calls attention to the relation of nature and beauty in contrast to the idea of unnatural monstrosities. Beauty and Nature is a clear motif in the novel, and this can be seen primarily with the monster itself. It was clearly not natural as it was made by a man using pieces of decomposing humans, and people reacted to it as such. the unnatural creation was anything but beautiful; in fact, it was frightening. The only reason that the monster was treated as it was, was its appearance. This can be seen specifically when the monster was living near the family in the cottage. The old blind man was welcoming and kind to the monster, but the children, who could see the hideous unnatural creation, forced it to leave and then separated themselves from the monster further by moving. Along with the people in the novel showing clear disapproval and disgust towards the unnatural creation, there is a significant focus on a retreat to nature to make up for the monster...
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...children believe that they are not intelligent and never will be. When society and your closest friends abandon you at times of need; it becomes hard to become self sufficient and not to lose hope. Like the children, the Monster also didn’t have the right guidance nor the support of his creator and society. He was conditioned to become a heartless monster against his will through constant failure. All of the monstrous acts people bring up that the Monster did was after being rejected. For example, He framed an innocent girl of murder because he thought she would not like accept him. 1.“The sleeper stirred; a thrill of terror ran through me. Should she indeed awake, and see me, and curse me, and denounce the murderer? Thus would she assuredly act if her darkened eyes opened and she beheld me. The thought was madness; it stirred the fined within me-not...
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...Throughout history and even in the modern world, tales, fables, and stories tell of hideous and cunning monsters who wreak havoc on those around them. Similarly, in the epic poem Beowulf, monsters such as demons and dragons are integral parts, playing a large role in the plot. No historian has been able to conclusively prove how the idea of monsters was invented. Several theories claim to explain how the existence of monsters was created; one credible theory states that monsters could have derived from the projection of unwanted qualities in humans. Monsters could be a twisted personification of humans who exaggerate elements of human nature that the world has traditionally perceived as bad (Trout). In the translation of Beowulf by Seamus...
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...In Mary Shelley's book ¨Frankenstein,¨ Victor creates a monster whose appearance is put off as dangerous. Even though the monster tries so hard to make a friend, he is consecutively being rejected by every human he comes in contact with besides a blind man from the DeLacey family. In society your physical appearance is being judge by someone everyday. Who is too fat, who is too thin? Who wears too much makeup, who doesn't wear any at all? Who is too tall, who is too short? Everyone is not being judged just in our time period but the same thing was happening in the time period of Mary Shelley's book ¨Frankenstein.¨ Throughout the monsters multiple denials of acceptance by society and Victor, Mary Shelley shows that social rejection alters negative...
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...With this in mind, tragedy, murder, and despair occur simply because of lack of connection. People ask why the monster seeks revenge on his creator. At first it is nothing but joy and happiness because Victor creates a monster brining him from the dead. However, the monster begins to feel emotions and begins to have desires of his own. With this in mind, the novel's theme of how revenge can affect someone and his or her family creates and paints a picture of drama and suspense. The novel includes Family, Society, and Isolation. As a result, the monster victor has created demolished Visitor’s family. Victor had denied the creatures desires of having a woman monster to live with. The monster became really upset and he threatened Victor by telling him,”It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night..” (Shelley 74). Victor became really frightened and decided to flee away in a boat. Once he arrived to town they gave him the news that Justine, Clerval, and William had been murdered. Furthermore, Victor was put in jail two months later where...
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...by Victor Frankenstein and it causes several emotional pains to him. Yet the monster is not being solely responsible for them. The creature is born like a fully grown newborn, despite its size; it knows nothing of the world. It can be argued that the creature’s mind is like a “blank slate” and that it only learns to be good or bad from its experiences. Therefore it’s not born good or bad, but learns the bad behavior we see in the novel, from those surrounding him. Frankenstein’s monster was judged by society due to his unusual physical appearance and this caused him to become evil and commit murders to his own creator’s loved ones. The encounters the creature has with people he meets, makes him hate himself over and over again because people react with fear and detest to his disproportioned and twisted appearance. The monster demonstrates the reaction of people in the village when they see him as he states, “some of the people ran away when they saw me [the monster] but the others shouted and threw stones at me. They wanted to kill me.” (Shelley 22). The monster feels judged and mistreated by the people of the village. There was no place in the world for him and no one wanted him. The monster was made, but as soon as he saw the world, the world hated him. All he ever wanted was to be loved and then he was discarded and eventually the world hated him, so he learned to hate the world. The monster realizes how ugly he is when he sees his own reflection on the river and says...
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...responsibility for his actions, respects life more than Frankenstein, which is apparent by Frankenstein robbing graves to create the creature, and the fact that Frankenstein abandons the creature to die, only for the creature to experience the hatred of mankind. In almost every way, the monster portrays himself as more human than Frankenstein, but of course, one must not put aside the fact that ultimately, Frankenstein is a human and the creature is not. Of course, for the creature to be more human than his creator, he must first have the typical human characteristics. He firstly shows physical human features. He is “eight feet in height” and his body parts are taken from dead bodies which his creator dug out from graves. His “limbs were in proportion” and his “hair was of lustrous black. He has also developed human emotions. Having been scared off by the villagers he began “feeling pain invade [him] on all sides, [he] sat down and wept”. This shows that his surroundings have an impact on how he feels and reacts, and to weep is a common human action. He likes warmth, company, kindness and music, and dislikes pain, cold and seeing people sad. All these qualities are typical of a human and so it makes the creature human like. The point where the creature becomes more human than his creator is when it comes to the types of feelings expressed; for instance, in the beginning of the creature's life he is loving, benevolent,...
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... it is clear to see that unlike a person that believes in a god that loves them and cares for them, the monster in the story fully believes that his ‘god’ (Frankenstein) actually rejects him. Therefore he chooses to do as much as he can to hurt Frankenstein, and after he finally “breaks” and realizes this, it becomes his only motivation. If one compares the early childhood of many criminals in today’s prisons to the story of Frankenstein’s monster, many similarities appear. Many criminals grow up in harsh environments where they are left to fend for themselves due to lack of parents or outright rejection by them. Criminals who grow up in this ghetto life style often have little to no resources and are forced to steal, cheat, or lie simply to survive. They are often shunned by society for their dirty looks and dirty ways for years and years until just like Frankenstein’s monster they “break” and do something terrible. They lose all respect and love for God and their fellow men because every day of their lives they have only encountered rejection, poverty, and hardships. What these people do may be wrong; but what Mary Shelley wants her readers to understand is that one cannot judge another’s actions without first stepping into their shoes. In Frankenstein she allows the reader to step in to Frankenstein’s monster’s shoes in order to understand his story along the way until finally one reaches the all-important conclusion: monsters are not born, they are...
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...A Monster’s Intrigue Think many would enjoy running for their lives from the clutches of a monster? No, obviously someone would not want that. It would be terrifying, however, there is a large following of monster stories and darker ones. When I ask others for their opinion of this oddity, most were forced to scour their brains for any semblance of an answer which made sense. The reason that so many are infatuated with monstrous fiction and cinema is because the monsters are often interesting biologically, they provide complex and conflicting emotions, and often times the protagonist of the story is more complex than in normal stories. This is especially true when faced with a horrifying monster! Monstrous entities in darker stories can be...
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