Thursday, 14 August 2014

World Lit: Monstrous Images















Are these unnatural looking figures monsters? When the word “monster” being mentioned. We immediately think of a great-size, dangerous and ferocious appearance creature. Monster can also be referred as something extraordinary or unnatural, an amazing event or occurrence, a prodigy, a marvel or any imaginary creature that is large, ugly, and frightening in the Oxford English Dictionary. The picture above does seems to match with one of definition listed but what I am seeing here are just human mutants.

Human does undergoes mutations. We are evolving even today; we might be doing so even faster than before. In the picture above, we can clearly see 3 unnatural looking human-like bodies: one with a face on its own chest, one man with a big foot, and the last women with big ears. There are many cases of human mutation out there all over the world. They has been discussed on the news, on the Internet and even on the World Guiness Record. The reason why these 3 are considered monster is that with the absence of high technology and knowledge of science back then, people weren't able to make a difference between monsters and mutants.

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