I: Monster's body is a cultural body I believe that some of the important key points for this thesis are monsters stands for something else and they’re not just a monster. They also express our fears and anxieties as a society, and they are a product of time place and feeling. I think that in that sense monsters are symbolizing human beings, especially when it comes to the emotion side of it. II: The monster always escapes Few of the points that I understood from Cohen on this thesis is that the monster either gets away and comes back or you kill one and it is replaced by more. Monsters need to be examined in the time and culture that create them, and same monsters used repeatedly, but they have different meanings. In the movie it follows, …show more content…
Monsters don't fall into easy categories because they don't fit into our known world, they are hard to categorize. For example, Frankenstein, the way it’s built makes it hard to be identified as a human or not because it’s made from human parts but it’s not really a human. Monsters challenge our logic and our current knowledge of what creatures exist. They’re dangerous because they’re disturbing hybrids like zombies, they’re dead people but alive. IV: Monsters dwell at the gates of difference The monster embodies the other which is what’s different from us and not us. It addresses the otherness. It is perceived as the other or the things we don’t have similarity with because the differences keep us apart. Differences like sex, gender, and color. We tend to turn things that scare us into monsters, for example, if someone fears Arabs, Mexicans, or African Americans then he/she will see them as monsters. V: Monsters police the border of the possible The threat of the monster keeps you in your place or from going somewhere. It is borders we cannot cross. There are not only physical but also social and cultural borders. Another border is knowledge, we don’t ask questions or try to figure out what’s going