Description
this question has two parts
1- Finding at least three different monsters of your own to prove or disprove
Cohen's theses. (You may also focus on three different interpretations of the same
monster. Example: Zombies from Night of the Living Dead 1968, Zombieland
2009, and Warm Bodies 2013). You could use movie monsters, TV monsters,
literary monsters, mythical or fairy tale monsters, and/or real, historical monsters.
The choice is yours. This section of the paper will be where you include your
outside sources to strengthen your analysis and send it to me.
2- the PACES worksheet for "Monster Culture." seven theses (see the attach file)
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Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Breaking down “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”
Overall argument:
Monsters have existed for a long time since the eras of the early civilizations like Mesopotamia.
They have been used to entertain and their delivery has taken different approaches. In the past, civilizations passed
down folklore from generation to generation with stories around a campfire or through other mediums like songs.
Modern day technology, however, has relieved the storytellers and singers of their duties as most monster stories are
watched as movies on televisions with sound effects. In all these stories the monster is represented as the unknown and
described with scary and ugly features. Modern-day monsters include blood craving vampires, shape-shifting
werewolves, and zombies believed to be resurrected corpses.
Audience:
The audience of these stories and movies range from children to adults and they are used to teach, warn
and entertain.
Purpose: The purpose is to educate, warn and entertain
Tone: Most monster stories and films including Resident Evil, 2002 which I use in this paper are threatening and scary.
Thesis 1:
Main Claim:
The monster’s body is a cultural body. This means that the monster is born at crossroads of a cultural
moment. It embodies uncertainty and appears at the point of indecision that could lead to many different places. It
inhibits the gap between the time that it is first created and the time that born-again or reinterpreted in the society. The
monster's body is made up of fantasy, anxiety, desire, and fear and these give them life.
Evidence (2 important examp...