What Is The Cruel Slaughter By Jason Peirce

In the graphic novel the “beast” is more than just a bull in the sense that it represents many other characteristics, but it is still a beast because it embodies the aggression, violence and fear shown in the boy and also in all of us as individuals. The hostility of the beast is shown through the physical killing

After Victor’s abandonment, the creature left Victor’s home and wandered into the woods. Initially, every encounter with humanity brought the creature pain and suffering as they were instantly terrified upon seeing the creature's horrifying appearance and treated him like the monster he appeared to be. Eventually, the creature came across a hovel in the woods that was within close proximity to a cottage where a family lived. The monster grew very affectionate toward his "protectors," emphasizing that beings are born to love, not hate.

The creature is aware of how much strength he possesses and often has moments of pure rage while contemplating the general destruction of all that surrounds him.

In the article “Monsters and the Moral Imagination,” Stephen Asma, a professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Scholar at Columbia College Chicago, argues that the existence of monsters have a purpose in our lives. It is not only to reveal our deepest fears, but to question our moral instincts. Being attacked by fictional monsters seems impractical, however, chaos and disasters do happen and exist in the real world. The creation of monsters is due to our reaction of our fears and the inability to control the world we live in.

Inside us all there is a deep dark fear this is what grabs us by the thresh hold of life. It controls the most important aspects of our lives. This is found within the deepest and darkest chasms of our souls. The very creature that wreaks havoc in our minds we cage and never confront we lock this beast away to afraid to overcome it. If the beast is not confronted it begins to contort and change who we are as a person and how we interact with others. Even the very decisions we make as a person to affect those around us and are loved ones to also suffer the consequences of our actions. Such as the crucible and how each person was warped into their own monster by greed.

Human beings have a certain ability to hurt other people psychologically, and it can be even more painful than hurting someone physically. We tend to make people feel less, excluded and small, so we can have an advantage over them. This is the same exact methodology for monsters and demons, the only difference is that they do it physically. Movies, theatre, books and comic have always presented evil as gigantic and dreadful creatures, that always try to make humans, demigods, or even gods to feel small and impotent. But that is the thing about evil, it is always beaten by

The beast limped towards me, its eyes glowing red like the color of my blood, adrenaline pumps quickly throughout my body, it charges, hooves clacking along the cold dirt floor, its shaggy fur dripping with warm crimson blood. My breath is fast as I leap towards it, dagger raised. It punctures the soft skin, tearing the flesh of its bony chest. I follow the pattern; leap, stab, tear, duck, roll, aim for thigh and roll again. It howls in rage and leaps at me, its claws outstretched, I hold out my blade as it crashes into it, the knife reaching its' now motionless heart. Another comes at me, wanting to seek revenge for its fallen brother. It roars, spikes flaring in and out of

The beast they encountered were told to be “panthers, tygers, wolves, and other beasts of prey” prey meaning predators. Due to the animals hunting at night, explorers had to work quickly throughout the day. The men were scared at night afraid of possible attacks “frightful ditty ‘till day appears” meaning they could barely sleep with all the predators around them. The explorers had made an enemy with nature.

may lead to a life of violent crime or murder. The Creature, as we see

Tonight though, the world shall receive their long-awaited answers. Will see the tiny menace apprehended, whose tormenting habits have caused nothing but nightmares among women and children, disgust and helplessness for the men.

Some of the family fled, some fainted, and the male family member “struck [the creature] violently with a stick” (110). Shelley’s diction during this brutal scene portrays the intense cruelty and abuse the creature receives from other human beings. Shelley deliberately chooses the word fled, making sure that the reader gets the full sense of how terrified these humans were of the creature. Additionally, the statement that some fainted, simply by looking at him, allows the reader to understand how fearful this family truly is. This devastating situation reinforces the creature’s awareness of his lack of nurturing environment. As the creature furthers his narrative, he describes the way in which Victor’s younger brother treated him when he laid eyes upon his being. The child screams at the creature, calling him an “ogre” and states that he is a “hideous monster” (117). Not even an innocent child, free from most prejudices of the world, will accept the creature’s being. Shelley’s conscientious choice of diction when referring to the creature as an ogre allows the reader to fully understand the nurturing environment, or lack thereof, he is subjected to. This constant degradation fuels the creature’s symbolic fire and causes his ill deeds. Much like an abused animal, the creature lashes out at those around him,

to the fact that no human will look past his monstrous frame. Following his initial rejection and abandonment by his creator, the creature’s next human encounter was in a village where his very presence caused a commotion in terror. The reader’s heart feels for this creature as he describes this next human encounter saying, “Some fled, some attacked me” (Shelley 83). Having had a life filled with repeated rejection by everyone the creature reached out to, it is clear why the creature began to despise the human species in its entirety; however, he did give them the benefit of the doubt several times before turning on them all together. The monster

In David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green, Jason Taylor is a teenager who goes through different obstacles that he wishes he could change in his life. He deals with bullying, his case of stammering, and trying to find somewhere to belong at school and as well as outside of school.

Many upon many of times the creature being seized between darkness and the light. He was intelligent enough to know he was wrong to do these murders, and in the resulting end, he rid his horrid sight from the eyes of man. The creature sympathies for whom he does not know.

Tobias Wolff’s memoir, This Boy’s Life, concentrates on the intense physical and emotional abuse Toby endured throughout his adolescence. Toby spent the majority of his juvenile years wandering around the United States as his divorced mother struggled to find employment and deprived her son of any affection. Eventually, Toby’s mother Rosemary met a man named Dwight who promised her and her son a better life. Rosemary makes the decision to move Toby to Chinook, Washington with Dwight in an attempt to evaluate a new living situation. After only a few days of living with Dwight, Toby is already a victim of Dwight’s relentless brutality. Despite the cruel treatment, Toby lies to his mother because he knows Dwight can offer a more stable life, albeit a challenging one. Toby’s life instantly deteriorates upon moving to Chinook, as Dwight’s cruel treatment and demeaning words ultimately beat Toby into a state of worthlessness. Living in the state of abuse and failure proves to be a formidable task for Toby, and in order to cope with the trauma, he buries himself in the recesses of his imagination. As a child, the only option of escape is through thoughts, but as Toby moves on to high school, the emphasis of escape shifts from mental to physical. Toby 's corrosive life of domestic abuse and consistent failure fuel his desire for mental and physical escape from the horrors of his reality.