Quotation: “The nineteenth centuries political and literary revolutions did not completely redefine the monster. Rather they overlaid and inflected the monsters pre existing connotations which dated back to classical antiquity and beyond.”
Comment or Connection: This Quotation sets the structure for the argument of the whole article. The social and literary concept of the “monster” hasn’t been re-defined by cultural and political shifts through time but rather adapt and assimilate with the current societal beliefs of the moment, only to change and shift once again with the society.
Question: my question is that with knowing this information someone took a story from the current year about a monster and compared it to some of the earliest monster stories from human history how similar would you find them?
