ENGL 110 CUNY Queens College Monster Culture Seven Theses Rhetorical Analysis
Please help to improve and revise my existing draft, especially the introduction part, and then add 7 paragraphs according to Cohen's 7 theses, each paragraph discusses the rhetoric method from each one of 7 theses. Improve and perfect my existing conclusion paragraph. PROGRESSION 1 ASSIGNMENT: RHETORICAL ANALYSIS For this assignment, you will perform an in-depth rhetorical analysis of “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. A rhetorical analysis essay systematically examines one or more rhetorical features of a text in order to deeply explore how they work to achieve the text’s purpose. In a rhetorical analysis essay, you are not simply concerned with what the text is saying but instead with how the text is constructed, and why the writer might have selected certain rhetorical features or strategies. Essay Assignment: Analyze a few significant aspects of “Monster Culture” in order to develop an argument regarding the intended or imagined audience for that essay. You should aim to: 1) characterize the intended audience, and 2) evaluate Cohen’s stance towards his topic and audience To do so, you must: 3) analyze and discuss the functions of Cohen’s rhetorical choices within “Monster Culture,” Your essay must contain a persuasive thesis claim that it develops and supports through analysis of evidence from the text. Imagine that you are writing for other freshman scholars who have read “Monster Culture” and find the text to be rather difficult. Goals: • Identify a problem or question worth addressing, using a passage or personal experience that will reward close reading. • Formulate a thesis claim that makes a strong, insightful (i.e. not obvious) argument. • Establish a motive for the essay in your introduction. Here you will answer the “So What?” question, suggesting why your essay is important and interesting to an intelligent reader. Draw out the implications of the argument in your conclusion. • Structure the essay around your central claim, making sure that each paragraph is adding an essential piece to your argument. • Use evidence persuasively, quoting and analyzing the text when necessary, summarizing or paraphrasing accurately and responsibly when appropriate. Do not provide evidence from other sources or make general assertions (e.g. claims about “human nature”). • Adhere to all relevant formatting guidelines described in the course syllabus. The final draft must be between 1400 and 1600 words, around 6 pages.My Draft__________________________________________________________________________________________________RHETORICAL ANALYSIS MONSTER CULTUREIn the article "Monster Culture Seven Theses", Jeffrey Jerome Cohen describes and discusses and analyzes monsters and their origins. From this article, we can strongly feel that Cohan uses a variety of effective rhetorical devices to express his views. Cohen used a lot of historical and cultural materials to extensively discuss and analyze monsters related to the culture of monster origin. At the beginning of the article, Cohen introduced the monster's body with a fascinating concept, and used it as the main body of the culture, and then used a seven-stage argument to analyze and explore the monster's culture from the deep. Guide readers to gradually understand the origin, development, and return of monster culture, and there are any forms of differences between monsters. First of all, Cohen proposed metaphorically that the body of the monster is the body of culture. The meaning in it implies that the monster culture is not just that the monster always means to contain other things. Some fear and anxiety reflect and predict that the monster will be in a culture. The rise of "crossroads", monsters are a manifestation of cultural differences. Second, Cohen explained the ability of monsters to escape from certain places and only reappear in other places. In previous eras, these monsters have repeatedly found their place in society. In the third thesis, monsters refuse to characterize because of their ability to appear and reappear, so monsters are different from each other and difficult to understand. It is therefore difficult to classify them into various categories. The fourth thesis emphasizes the existence of monsters in the door of difference. Monsters were born through cultural differences. The phenomenon of magnifying cultural differences into weirdness is well known. Monster culture reflects how humans view the world and the positioning of human thinking. In the fifth thesis, Cohen stated that monsters control possible boundaries and limit the social space in which humans can move when enforcing the law of exclusion. The sixth thesis treats the fear of monsters as a desire. Monsters are described as creatures that cause panic and fear among people who interact with their culture because they can change their appearance and traits, thus forming a powerful force in individuals. Finally, Cohen’s proposition implies that monsters are half animals and half creatures. They are not suitable for the social system of human existence and can prevent us from being defined as coherent species.Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is a brilliant writer, humanist, and linguist. He is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University. Cohen's research studies strange and beautiful things that challenge imagination, but at the same time are strange and intimate phenomena. Also, his research focuses on medieval research, monster theory, and environmental humanities. This article is for horror-fans who love horror themes and have a considerable degree of understanding. Because of, much of the content and information in the article requires a certain understanding of the relevant horror subject knowledge, in order to gain in-depth understanding and analysis of the concepts, allusions, and stories mentioned in the article. The use of his language and precise application of tone in the article show Cohen's serious attitude towards the audience and he creates an interesting reading atmosphere. And firmly attract the audience's interest, from shallow to deep guide the audience to gradually understand his ideas, to help audiences understand the main point of monster culture in depth.Cohen uses a variety of rhetorical devices to enhance the readability and appeal of the article, like metaphor, parallelism, repetition, hyperbole, and etc. 1, Cohen creates a Mysterious and interesting context through the use of metaphor in Thesis I. He states “The Monster’s Body is a Cultural Body… Behead the corpse, so that, acephalic, it will not know itself as subject, only as pure body….” He used the headless monster body as a metaphor for the main body of human culture and used this novel viewpoint to attract audience. When people see this point of view, they immediately question, why is the monster's body the theme of culture? Why can't it be the monster's head? Or is it another part? Immediately Cohen gave an explanation: "The monster's body quite literally incorporates fear, desire, anxiety, and fantasy (ataractic or incendiary), giving them life and an uncanny independence." Here is a summary of the consciousness of the monster’s body is more diverse. In the minds of ordinary people, the body part is more characteristic than the head. Is it tall or short? Is it fat or thin? Is it strong or weak? Is the skin smooth or full? Wrinkled? Humans are so, so monsters are much more complicated than humans. These characteristics just confirm the diversity of human culture. At the same time, it also generated interest and attracted the audience to read further.2, Cohen creates a Sense of crisis and fear context through the use of parallelism in Thesis II. In the article, he wrote: “No matter how many times King Arthur killed the ogre of Mount Saint Michael, the monster reappeared in another heroic chronicle, bequeathing the Middle Ages an abundance of morte d'Arthurs. Regardless of how many times Sigourney Weaver's beleaguered Ripley utterly destroys the ambiguous Alien that stalks her, its monstrous progeny return, ready to stalk again in another bigger-than-ever sequel.” He used two: "how many time" to describe two examples of "King Arthur" and "Alien" and emphasized his point of view "The Monster Always Escapes." The monsters in these two examples are indeed very difficult to eliminate. Even temporary destruction will always return in other forms. Because the monster theory exists in human imagination and human ideology. Therefore, monsters cannot always disappear, Cohen said in the article "No monster tastes of death but once. The anxiety that condenses like green vapor into the form of the vampire can be dispersed temporarily, but the revenant by definition returns." Like the new kind of vampire "Dracula" invented by Bram Stoker, these vampires can return in different forms and dresses every time, and each re-appearance is related to the social movement or specific decisive event at that time.3, Cohen creates an Enhance tone and strength context through the use of repetition in Thesis II. In beginning of the article, he wrote: “the footprints of the yeti across Tibetan snow, the bones of the giant stranded on a rocky cliff.” Emphasizing the monster's subject through the expression of two consecutive identical examples is usually difficult to follow. However, the damage and traces caused after the monster left are still there. Prompt "the monster itself turns immaterial and vanishes, to reappear someplace else" to remind people that the monster did not leave but always returned in another form. This is the characterization of deep human ideology because monster culture, monster theory, and monster consciousness are rooted in the bottom of people's minds and there is no way to let go, and they always emerge inadvertently. As Cohen said in the article: "each reappearance and its analysis is still bound in a double act of construction and reconstitution. “Monster theory” must therefore concern itself with strings of cultural moments, connected by a logic that always threatens to shift." Therefore, the repetition technique used by Cohen at the beginning of the chapter has left a vivid and profound impression on the audience and guided the audience to move forward.In conclusion, Cohen put forward many effective points through this paper. He provided important insights into the reasons why society and culture created monsters. The purpose of monsters is to highlight the purpose of social movements, and their significance in society exceeds theirs. Literal and imaginative use in literature and our media and cultural use. By locating the origin of the monster, Cohen strives to reveal the values and tendencies of our culture. Monster culture really represents the way culture treats and treats monster ideas. They teach people not to do anything, so they are still accepted by society.