The Development of Monsters Through Time

how they might respond to them and from that, they might classify the bad guy as a monster depending on the situation.

Nightmares can also be another way monsters have emerged. When one has nightmares, they may dream of scary things or dream about monsters. Dreaming about monsters could lead to the possibility of bringing them to life. We use our imagination and work with our dreams to create certain monsters. Some of the monsters known today have occurred from dreams people once had. In the article “Nightmare and The Horror Film: The Symbolic Biology of Fantastic Beings,” it included examples of some famous monsters known today that came from dreams or nightmares. One example it included was Mary Shelley’s creation of Frankenstein, a monster that was created based on a dream that Mary Shelley once had. “Mary Shelley first dreamed of the creature at a time in her life fought with tragedies connected with childbirth” (Carroll, 20).

She ended up taking this dream she had and used it to create a creature that represented her dream which came to be known as Frankenstein. This shows that monsters can also come from the minds dreams and are helpful for forming new versions of monsters.

Monsters have emerged in many ways. A monster can not only be a creature that is born being a monster, but also a creature created from someone. By using the imagination, experiences, and nightmares, it forms various types of monsters because our own personal views are used that form them. It also allows new forms of monsters to exist that do not already exist and be creative when forming them. There are many forms of monsters and many different ways of creating them. The imagination plays an important role in the existence of monsters because of the perspective there exists towards them and using the knowledge to create more and more of them.