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Unraveling Monsters: From Ancient Greeks to Modern Times

Explore the history and meaning of monsters from the Ancient Greeks to modern society. Discover how monsters represent fear, repulsion, and attraction, and delve into their symbolic and cultural significance. From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Ridley Scott's Prometheus, delve into the fear of technology and human ambition fueling monster narratives.

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Unraveling Monsters: From Ancient Greeks to Modern Times

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  1. Monsters and Horror

  2. What Is A Monster? The History of Monsters Why Monsters? What Do Monsters Mean? Monsters Now

  3. What Is A Monster?

  4. The History of Monsters

  5. Ancient Greeks Monsters occur when natural order is disrupted Deformity occurs when the pregnant woman sees something which startles her

  6. The Middle Ages Monsters came from God and the Devil, they were caused by stars and comets, they resulted from copulation with other species and from flaws in their parents' anatomies.

  7. Modern Times “Something out of the common order of nature.” - Dr. Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

  8. Modern Times “Originally: a mythical creature which is part animal and part human, or combines elements of two or more animal forms, and is frequently of great size and ferocious appearance. Later, more generally: any imaginary creature that is large, ugly, and frightening.” - Oxford English Dictionary

  9. Why Monsters?

  10. Why Monsters? Fear Repulsion Attraction Unthinkable Unmanageable

  11. What Do Monsters Mean?

  12. What Do Monsters Mean? Literal and symbolic Cultural categories Manage contradictions

  13. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) Fear: Technology / Religion Human vs the creature

  14. SpliceVincenzo Natali 2009 Fear: Biomedia Human ambition

  15. PrometheusRidley Scott 2012 Fear: Biomedia Engineers vs humans

  16. Night of the Living DeadGeorge Romero 1968 Fear: Ourselves Racism and consumerism

  17. 28 Days LaterDanny Boyle 2002 Fear: Viruses Foreigners and countermeasures

  18. The Walking Dead2010 Fear: Society's end Humans vs humans

  19. Monsters Now

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