Watching the movie Hulk and reading the story of Frankenstein’s creature, we automatically conclude that these main characters are the “monsters” yet they are the most tender and emotional. If you look up the synonym for monster, we see the adjectives, “fiend, brute, demon, devil, and miscreant.” Clearly, we have been tricked in believing who the real monsters are in these stories and also in our own reality.
In Hulk, we see the father using his innocent son, Bruce as a guinea pig to his science experiment. Later on, Bruce gets exposed to radiation and becomes a “monster” without the intentions of wanting to be one in the first place. He brutally fights his way through society’s misjudgements only because he was a victim of a selfish scientific experiment.
We also see this atrocity in the book Frankenstein. The scientist, again, secretly creates a horrific being in which people would classify as a “monster.” The creature had the features of a monster, yes, but he had emotions and he felt love and hate, everything a normal human feels. What made him the “monster” was the neglect of love and nourishment from his creator. Frankenstein refused to embrace his creature and then refused to equip the creature with another being just like him, and in result his turned the creature into a monster.
I found that the story of Hulk and Frankenstein, related to the incident of the Cold War where over a million innocent people were brutally and secretly exposed to radioactive experiments. The nuclear disaster was no accident and left many American citizens mutated in monstrous forms. Viewing the results on humans, we automatically flinch at the horrors of their features and we think of them as being monsters.just as Bruce in the Hulk and the creature in Frankenstein, these victims are sentenced to a life of deformation and constant mutation during generations to come. Monsters are defined to be horrific heartless and destructive brutes. Can we really identify these victims as monsters? Who fits the description more accurately?
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| Result of Nuclear experiment on a new born child. |
When were faced with an ugly deformed creature, we automatically judge this being to have no feelings or any sense of human emotions. That’s just how we are, but we never go down to the depths of it. How did this happen? Who is responsible? Once you collect your data, we realize who the real monsters are, and it is those who intentionally brutalize innocent people and put them in a society that is well-known to be judgmental and harsh on deformities, meanwhile the scientists lay low and safe in their “natural” human “disguise.”
You make very interesting points Sophia! We humans are afraid of the unknown: as a result our primitive instincts are to deem a being who is socially inept or deformed to a much lower status. It's extremely interesting in this case to address your question: "Who fits the description accurately?" looking at the picture, we see the tragedy and despair these experiments have caused. I cannot help but bring up the traditional catch question, "What type of monster would do this?" and of course we the humans are at fault for prejudice,and our so called destructive curiosity in the field of science.
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ReplyDeleteI could not have said it better. The only people that deserve to be treated like monsters are the scientists that use these forms of experiments to destroy humanity. The picture you posted is the best example of what we create, and at the same time regret creating it. Just like Victor when he created his monster.
We discuss the atrocity of the physical appearance of these monsters (Frankenstein, The Hulk), yet ironically they are the innocent ones that have to become evil due to their neglecting parents. The true monsters are the ones that don't look so atrocious on the outside. Funny how things work...
Very interesting post! For some reason, when I finished reading your post, the story of The Beauty and the Beast came into mind.
ReplyDeleteThe prince, originally so handsome and popular, would treat people like nothing and had no sense of respect whatsoever. However, when he changes into a beast, he finally sees his true self and hates himself for it. He becomes isolated from society, hating himself more every passing day. Finally, when Belle comes into the picture, he slowly starts to change from the inside...becoming a better and more caring person. Obviously, as in every Disney movie, everything is resolved and finishes with a happy forever after; the beast turns back to his handsome self, becoming as beautiful from the outside than on the inside.
Anyways, that's not the point: the point is that, just as Rebecca stated above: "The true monsters are the ones that don't look so atrocious on the outside"... The prince had to actually SEE what a real monster he was before he could make any changes to his behavior.
Amazing connections Sophia! Our society is so quick to judge based on appearance and does not give it any second thought what so ever to the causes or story behind these "monsters". How can we hate on something that human nature created? I also cannot agree more on the statement "The true monsters are the ones that don't look so atrocious on the outside". I do believe that one's inside is what defines them, first appearances can be deceiving. And most likely, these monsters are the greatest hearted ones. As those who know what rejection and pain feels like end up exposing a nicer personality as they know how it feels to be treated poorly and would not want anyone else to go through it.
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