Q6 - The Monsters

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This post contains some gruesome pictures. Do not view this post if you dislike pictures of mutilated monsters.

In this book, one of the main threats to mankind, that has lost its superiority over other living creatures, are the triffids.

Triffids are plants that can pull up their roots from the ground and walk. Also, these strange plants have stingers that can whip out and attack any kind of creature accurately. A triffid can walk quite fast, and its stings eject deadly poison. Not only are these creatures mobile and dangerous, they are intellectual. The idea of triffids being smart is started as an idea, but more and more proof of intelligence is shown in the triffids throughout the story.

So triffids are hideous creatures that bring danger to humans. We could also classify these plants as monsters.

Many times in fictional stories, we can see monsters. Sometimes, those monsters are terrifying for another reason: they were created by humans.

Sure, triffids were not exactly artificial existances brought to life by mad scientists, but through human greed they were produced and grown. For profit, sometimes humans create monsters, even when they do so without realizing it.

Another example of a monster that was created through the stupidity of a human was the monster in the Han river, a fictional creature in a movie that is quite famous in Korea.

This monster was actually groups of fish mutilated due to poison that was carelessly thrown away into the drains that led to the Han river. Had the scientist not done such a foolish thing, many lives would have been spared from this monster that fed on human flesh.

Another monster which everybody should know is Frankenstein: a poor inhuman creature created by a crazy scientist.

Composed of dead bodies, Frankenstein was not what we'd call a truly 'living' creature. However, my point isn't about whether Frankenstein was alive or not.

My point is that sometimes humans make monsters. Even when we scream and point at them, sometimes they are results of are mistakes.

If monsters are born by humans' fault, are humans monsters?