Monster Theory

After reading through Jeffery Cohen's "Monster Thoery (Seven Theses)" The specific thesis that I found most interesting was thesis Number 7. This thesis states that "The Monster Stands at the Threshold...of Becoming" I think what Cohen is trying to say with this thesis is that Monsters have no limitations. They can be pushed to the edge and basically have no boundaries. At the same time, when we take a look at monsters, we can get a better look at the knowledge of human beings of the time period that a monster is created and we can get a look at how things were viewed during that time period. Monsters are created by human beings and the term monster is a man made term, meaning that we created its definition and we created the idea of a monster to begin with. Over time, we have seen this definition change several times. For example, we have much different views about monsters then the views that existed during the creation of Dracula. If we compare the first ever vampire, and compare that to our modern day vampires, such as the ones from Twilight, we see significant differences. This relates back to Cohens Thesis because he is saying that the characteristics of monsters are based on the knowledge that we have as humans, and as our knowledge expands, the concept of monsters will also be more complex.

Overall, I would agree with this specific thesis. I personally think that our idea of monsters will forever be continued to be expanded. The possibilities are basically endless for what can define a monster. I think throughout our life times, and in future generations, the monster will evolve even more and more questions will be answered, and raised. Monstrosity is a very complex idea that is yet to be fully understood. I think it will be interesting to see where our ideas of monstrosity will go in the future.