Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Research Paper

BANG! You wake up in alarm, the sound came from your basement and no one else is in the house. As make your way slowly to the basement door your heart starts to beat out of your chest “what could that have been?”. You peer into your pitch black basement to find something lurking in the dark. Monsters have been haunting our society for centuries. Stories of bloodsucking vampires, howling werewolves, and demons have been passed down from generation to generation, reflecting our inner fears and anxieties about the world. After hearing many of these stories, I believe that monsters can be defined as a being that is evil, violent and destructive and causes fear to anyone or anything that crosses its path.

Monsters are extremely violent beings that

In the nineteenth century monsters were often portrayed as deformed beings that went against society’s views and moral obligations. A famous monster from the victorian era was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in his book “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” In his book he wrote about a reputable scientist named Jekle that created a transformation “potion” that allowed him to separate his good and evil side, and resulted in the creation of the monster Mr. Hyde. In the book Hyde is characterized as a short, ugly, and violent man that “gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation”. People who came across Hyde were often left feeling disturbed and afraid because he gave off an evil aura. Much like the Minotaur, Hyde is violent and evil, he often attacked people who were just passing by him for no good reason other than to fulfill his evil desire to hurt people and cause harm. In the book Hyde beats Sir Danvers, a man who was just walking past him to death. Jekyll later recalls how he (Hyde) had felt after the murder “I mauled the unresting body, tasting delight in every blow...at once glorifying and trembling, my lust of evil gratitude and simulated my love of life.” Hyde’s intense pleasure after killing his victim shows how evil monsters are, they can kill without feeling any regret. Hyde is a pure evil being created through a scientific breakthrough. In this way he reflects the fears of

Their very appearances and actions can cause people to run the other way. Monsters like Hyde and the Minotaur, used their violent and evil nature in order to scare their human victims. Their deformed, and unnatural bodies cued people that something was off about them. Their malice and inclination to kill without hesitation caused anyone who crossed their path great fear. Much like them zombies do the same, their ugly deformed, rotting bodies instill fear in people. In the movie World War Z, the world is overtaken by a pandemic that causes people to turn into zombies. The disease causes people to lose limbs, their skin to rot, and lose their ability to think. They become obsessed with a burning and evil desire to eat human flesh, the zombies start to take over the world sporadically attacking people people and spreading the disease. The Zombie pandemic creates a mass hysteria in the movie, people become terrified of catching the disease, they begin to get desperate even turning against each other in order to survive. Their reactions to the zombies show the fear and destruction that a monster can cause. The people’s fear of them was so great that they were willing to attack others themselves just to stay