What Makes a Monster?
Monsters are often thought of as green, abnormally large and scary. They are believed to hide in dark shadows and forgotten street corners. Monsters have a bad reputation and the very nature of the term monster is not smiled upon. I believe these thoughts are generic and relics of a much safer past. In our morally bankrupt society monsters exist in the realist scariest form. As we step into adulthood and take our heads out of the comic books that shows us the danger of the Green Goblin we must now be alerted the real demons. Adolf Hitler killed thousands upon thousands of people. His persona and legacy can only be thought of as sick and sadistic. Adolf Hitler did by himself what would take an entire army of
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This lead to a total DNA change that turned him into a huge psychotic lizard. Peter Parker who had been bit by a radio active spider was now on a search to rediscover who he really is and only at the age of sixteen. If Stan Lee's classic comic was meant to teach us anything it was meant to teach us that we have a choice. Peter Parker a low income orphan, who was bullied and weak used his powers to become a hero. Osborne decided other wise. Using not Spiderman, but Peter Parker as my last explain I would like to show you that what makes a monster is more than the struggle for power as I earlier stated. It is the choice we make with that power whether it is given to us or taken.
In conclusion I want to provide you with a few points of clarity. Power did not make Adolf Hitler a monster. Self-love, greed, and ill convinced passion made Hitler the monster history remembers him as. Passions gone wrong made Dr. Osborne into an actual scaly green monster he became. Passion may have drove these men to extreme lengths, but their bad choices made them monsters. Good thing that in every comic, movie, and history book, there is always a few Peter Parkers' to save the day. You can not have the bad guys with out the
Dani Guidice Mr Richards HUSH red B April 30, 2024. Hitler’s Rise In Power Hitlers rise in power was a monumental turning point in history, but how many people really know how he gained so much power? In today's schools, teachers talk about the war itself, but now it's time to dig deep into the leader of this war, Adolf Hitler. Hitlers power was created from three main factors, his innocuous mask, his military power, and his charming way of earning Germans love and respect. Innocuous means non-threatening, or harmless.
To take a look in the monster. To look into the backstory of Adolf Hitler. Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. He was elected the leader of Germany after the first World War. These are facts that everyone already knows a thing or two about. What people may not know is that Hitler was losing his mind and his physical health was failing. According to Newsreel footage that was uncovered in the University of Chicago, Hitler was showing signs of early Parkinson's. His right hand was always shaking, he began moving slower, he began to slouch and forget about his posture all together. A member of the Hitler Youth, who saw him only a couple of years before Hitler killed himself and saw him a few days before said that "Hitler had aged 20 years in only 2." That not enough evidence? What about his doctor's note? Worldwide proclaimed psychiatrist by the name of Fritz Redlich openly stated that he was "categorically certain that Adolf Hitler was suffering from Parkinson's Disease." He was diagnosed at the beginning of the years of the war and he was only getting worse. In 1941 he had the deices and was getting worse. Imagine how bad it must have been after 4 years being one of the most despised men alive. The stress would have been making it spread faster. He was even put on bed rest in 1944 against his will because he had callapsed in front of his inner-circle. In addition to that, his personal doctor, a man named Theodor Morell, Hitler had a substance abuse problem that caused his already caving health to cave faster. And before that he was in a bombing in 1945 that left him with dizzy spells and intense, sharp-shooting pain. This would lead one to believe that even if Hitler had found a way out of the bunker in 1945, there is no way he would have the energy to outrun Russian soldiers. There was also no way that a tank could get through the bombings so that eliminates the possibility of a get
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse” once said a wise man named Edmund Burke. Power is the ability to influence or outright control the behavior of someone. Everyone has some sort of power against someone whether it be a mother having the power of telling her children no when asking for yet another piece of candy or a government leader who has the power over the millions of people in their country. There are two roads to which having authority could go down; using power to benefit those who are watching or using power to control those who are watching in a deceitful manner. George Orwell, author of 1984, and Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany, created two figureheads to whom were feared by the general population. Did Adolf
When people think of monsters, the first thing that pops into their head is Frankenstein, zombies, creatures of the night. Monsters are scary. Monsters in society reveal peoples fears and anxieties, their preconceived notions of normality, and represent the unknown.
There have been countless atrocities committed throughout history. Most of these atrocities are justified and developed from ideas and false realities. The most infamous atrocity of all history, the holocaust is no exception. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany from 1933 until his suicide at the end of WWII, was directly responsible for the deaths of over 12 million people. Alan Bullock in his book Hitler a Study in Tyranny dispels any notion that any of Hitler’s ideas were original. Bullock proposes that Hitler and his rise to power was a product of other political ideas and a knack for exploiting the timing of events to extend his influence. According to Bullock Hitler’s coming to power was the product the political ideals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries which he was exposed to, the world post-WWI, and a knack for exposition events to his favor. He used his gifts of using propaganda and his organizational skills to use politics as a means to achieving power.
The United States judicial system says that you are innocent until proven guilty. In language arts class we read a book called Monster, by Walter Dean Myers. Monster is about a 16 year old boy named Steve Harmon, and how he had to go on a trial for felony murder. The book is set as if Steve is making a screenplay. At the end of the book Steve is proven innocent, and free to go, but I believe that there was not enough information for Steve to be proven guilty. The jury did not see many parts of the story that readers of the book Monster read, for example, in his journal Steve writes about wanting to be like King, he also has flashbacks to before the crime that show him interacting with other members of the crime, and finally he had a lot of really close people doubting him.
throughout this novel and the movie. The decline is a less gradual one in the novel but a
Each cultures as a monster, they have travelled from centuries to decades always reappearing in in times of crisis or transformed to be used in the today’s belief. Although, we may ask what is a monster? Is it just an imaginary creature that sleeps under your bed or hide in the closet at night, is it supposed to be large, ugly and frightening. Well yes, part of this is true, some monster or should I say creatures were conceived with a disfigured or an unattractive physic which let them no other choice but to be seen as a monster.
Society contributes to how people treat others with non-normative bodies. Race is a part of the physical features that contributes to how a person is viewed. In the texts The Monster and The Story of My Life, Henry Johnson and Helen Keller faced different treatments from their peers because of their different racial backgrounds. After saving a little boy from a fire that cost him is face, instead of being treated like a hero, he was treated like a monster because of his ethnicity. Helen Keller, on the other hand, was given education and became civilized through the determination of her peers. Society assumes Henry Johnson is mentally incapable of being more than a monster, while society believes in Helen Keller’s ability to overcome her disabilities because their race.
During World War 2, Adolf Hitler had all power. He was a cruel man, that did random acts of hatred towards the people he thought didn’t belong in his country, the Jews and people that were just different. He started something known as the Holocaust. What he did seemed really wrong to us, but to him, it was nothing but trying to make everyone there the same. Hitler killed these innocent people in inhumane ways, such as gas chambers, death camps, or shooting them right on the spot. These people also had to suffer tremendously by getting separated from their families, hunger, disease, illness, and dehydration.
Monsters run free in epic poems of centuries far past; horrific, villainous creatures of fantasy who illustrate all that is bad in the world and stand for the tribulations the epic hero much overcome. The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf is no different. Some are born of, and in turn give birth to legends, such as the fire-breathing dragon, while others are tied to the bible. In studies, Beowulf's monsters are explained and will continue to be analyzed as symbolic of countless different ideas. In relation to each other and the epic's hero, the monsters of Beowulf represent the ever-present flaws of humanity and the monstrous feelings or behaviors that over take the mind in a moment of weakness, leading to eventual downfall.
To begin, most readers have come to the conclusion that the creature is not truly a monster because of the isolation and discrimination he faces from mankind. Yet, Hitler was also isolated by many bullies growing up. So why does society pity the monster and not Hitler? Hitler has his book, Mein Kampf and the monster has his, Frankenstein; both describing their troubles with humanity. Most audiences can not comprehend the pain of loved ones being brutally murdered such as Victor does in the novel, instead, most
For the past seventy years, Adolf Hitler has been known as one of the most evil men in history. The Fueherer, as he was known, exhumed hatred and violence in his pursuit of power. A vile man, driven by violence and a lust for power, eventually drove himself mad with his own idealistic vision of what a perfect world would be, and how he would achieve
Frankenstein was a scientist who thought that the world was a secret, which he desired to discover in the scientific field. He worked to find out the relationship between humans and animals. He was attracted by the structure of the human body, any animal related with life, and the cause of life. One day, Victor Frankenstein made an experiment where he included many different human parts from different dead people. This resulted in a human being and a strange creature never seen before in life, which made Frankenstein very scared. This creature or monster was tall enough to scare people by his height and with muscles that were well proportioned.
In mythology, monsters provide a challenge that humans must overcome. Heroes try to gain fame by defeating them and townspeople are afraid of them. Monsters spread fear for men to conquer. They give the opportunity for heroes to prove themselves. According to Mr. Thomas Bullfinch, “monsters are unnatural in proportions and parts and are employed for the injury and annoyance of men (Bullfinch 1).” Monsters do have strange parts and a common purpose. In Greek mythology, monsters have striking similarities. They fall into distinct categories based on form and duty. Monsters may be part snake, lion, or human. Some have multiple heads. Most monsters’ duties include guarding something for another being. Other monsters have no responsibilities