A Monster’s Intrigue
Think many would enjoy running for their lives from the clutches of a monster? No, obviously someone would not want that. It would be terrifying, however, there is a large following of monster stories and darker ones. When I ask others for their opinion of this oddity, most were forced to scour their brains for any semblance of an answer which made sense. The reason that so many are infatuated with monstrous fiction and cinema is because the monsters are often interesting biologically, they provide complex and conflicting emotions, and often times the protagonist of the story is more complex than in normal stories. This is especially true when faced with a horrifying monster! Monstrous entities in darker stories can be …show more content…
This can be counteracted to an extent by providing a backstory for the creature because then people can feel pity for the creature and understand how it got to the point where it is. For example, Dracula, who is apparently human, the reader feels no pity or empathy for because no backstory is given and we can only judge him for his actions that take place within the confines of the novel, all of which are atrocities. Meanwhile, there are monsters like Frankenstein’s monster, whose backstory is given. With this, the reader can see that in the beginning he was pure and a blank slate, but as the story progressed events transpired which continued to corrupt his innocence. He is a stone block and every event is a slash in it until the block is in shambles and hardly resembles what it used to be. Unlike Dracula, many feel pity and sympathy for Frankenstein’s monster, which is the power of a backstory. This mix of emotions, some which are conflicted, is what many people thrive …show more content…
The hero is not necessarily completely good or evil near the end, depending on what trials the person is submitted to endure throughout the story. An example of this is shown in the book series The Demonata. In this after battling the demons and what cruelty and loss he sees one of the main characters, Grubbs Grady, is forced to make difficult decisions which deal with life and death. After much time passes he is forced to become callous in order to survive and save others. This nature of his leads him to perform heinous acts such as cutting out his ally’s eyes for, what he believes, the greater good. This delves into the argument of if he is still a hero and good or not. Many find this complexity of a hero to be quite