Medusa's Gaze And Vampire's Bite: The Science Of Monsters - Plot & Excerpts
While giant animals, like the Nemean lion and Calydonian boar, were celestially created to plague humanity, Kong, in every version of King Kong, is always brought to civilized lands by people who just don’t care about the needs of the giant ape. Similarly, Chimera was a divinely spawned horror, but the chimeric Dren from Splice, Caesar from Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Frankenstein’s monster turn toward violence largely because the human world abuses them. Like Kong, they are viewed as specimens rather than as individuals, and this creates the conflict. This is not to say that these mistreated monsters are not still monsters. They are aberrations and they do harm humans, so they are, by definition, monsters, but their motivations make them more complex and hint at a trend. The ancient monsters were created by gods. True, they were sometimes sent to punish humans for misbehavior, as was the case with the Minotaur and Calydonian boar, but this was still often the result of the gods being greedy for attention, uncompromising, and harsh.
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