This is a response to http://wordofmouse999.blogspot.ca/ blog entry, Role of the Behemoths. I also found this lecture to be one of the most thought provoking of the year. Using real and imagined challenges to develop our ethical convictions is a vital role monsters play in our popular culture. I had always personally thought that the employment of monsters for these roles were generally used in ancient and medieval times, an often failed to serve their purpose as many people began t believe in these monsters. However, as you pointed out not only are they not exclusive to medieval and ancient times, you used the example of Where the Wild Things Are. Regardless of whether or not people believed these monsters were real or not they still played an important role in peoples understanding of ethical convictions. Monsters created a means of hypothetically rehearsing trials and tribulations that people struggled with themselves. The importance of monsters were not in whether they actually existed or not but rather in their role in illuminating our ethical convictions and developing our societal and personal values and morality.
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