What are the monster’s social and political implications in literature?-Why are the encounters with monsters in literature horrifying?
Essay Three Topic – Monsters in Literature According to Asa Simon Mittman, “monsters do a great deal of cultural work, but they do not do it nicely. They not only challenge and question; they trouble, they worry, they haunt. They break and tear and rend cultures, all the while constructing them and propping them up. […]