Monster

A monster is an individual or a creature whose appearance, even the behavior surprise by its variation with the standards of a company.

Etymology

A possible etymology of the word monster is the Latin verb monstro, monstrare : to show what would let suppose that the word indicated in the beginning a phenomenon which one showed in the fairs or the circuses.

Another possibility is the Latin root Monstrum meaning simply predicts without pejorative connotation.

Various meanings of the term

In its vulgar meaning, the term indicates as well the fantastic creatures as of the real beings. But in Biology, a monster is an individual whose conformation deviates notably from the standards of its species, following an anomaly of the embryonic development. The Tératologie is the discipline in charge of the scientific study of the monsters.

By extension, one also speaks about monstrosity on the moral level when somebody makes actions which the majority of people reject.

Certain meanings of the word monster insist simply on its spectacular side, it is the case of the superstar , for example Marilyn Monroe or James Dean. Diderot qualified the woman of " monster of the homme" and in answer Julie de Lespinasse qualified the man of " monster of the femme".

In art

As of the first artistic representations, one finds men with head of animals or animals fantastic mixing the characteristics of several animals. For this time, the man has continued to represent distressing and imaginary characters. Religious works frequently represent monsters.

Artists having represented monsters

In the literature

  • Low Sunday ( Notre-Dame de Paris of Victor Hugo)
  • Dracula
  • the monster created by Doctor Frankenstein (cf the novel Frankenstein , of Mary Shelley)
  • Godzilla
  • Golem

See too

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Internal bonds

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