Monster
Monsters or monster is the term for an unnatural, mostly ugly and fear -causing entity or a deformity. In addition, the name is Monster within the meaning of monster or monsters as an expression of creatures, usually fantasy animals, used, distinguished by their size, strength, or even ugliness. Colloquially means monster since then monster, monster or disgusting man.
Definition
The term derives from Latin monstrum, monster ( " Mahnzeichen ") and monstrare ( " show " ) and monere ( " admonish, warn " ) from. In a narrower sense, it refers to a usually in relation to a rather idealized seen people ungestaltes beings. Its deformity is his only purpose in the first reference to the measure - an ideal in physical as idealistic ways. Especially in the area of theological thought of the Church Fathers and the Middle Ages the monster is a Mahnzeichen that the faithful should point out the dangers and consequences of departure from the true faith, so that is deliberately set by God. Monsters in this image area were animals, mythological hybrid creatures, but also quite "human beings " be ( Augustine: monstra sunt in genere humano - Monsters are part of the human race ), which have been described as a miracle peoples. The term monster finds its way into the common parlance of the literature. It is used for the first time in 1818 by Mary Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.
Background
The term is now mostly but also colloquially applied to a fantastic creature with strong frightening proportions on everyday objects that meet the above criteria.
Monster as an fictional creatures originate mostly in the imagination of the people or in nightmares and fears symbolize that can be processed more easily personified in myths and fairy tales. In mythology, malformed people (eg Cyclops ) and hybrid creatures as monsters designated by animal carcasses and animal heads (eg grasping or dragon), but most of carcasses with human heads like the Sphinx ( woman's head and Löwinnenkörper ) or centaurs ( human torso and horse's body ). The opposite is the term demon called a theriokephales, so animal -man hybrid creature with at least anthropomorphic legs, such as the goat demon.
Also from the Cryptozoology sightings are reported by "real " existing monsters regularly. A prominent example is the Loch Ness monster. In addition to such a fantastic and extremely unlikely beings and it never did but always sightings of monsters which turned out to be real (such as the Komodo dragon, the mountain gorilla, the giant squid or the Megamouth ), or at least could exist with relatively high probability.
They have the function of specters or monsters and lead children the horrors as well as possible responses in mind.
In line with this, one called earlier also brutal, immoral people as monsters; as monsters and freaks or people were designated malformations. Nowadays you will find these names only rarely in everyday parlance.
The Sesame Street introduced a new, lovable monster type, whose well -known representative is the Cookie Monster. Designed similarly amusing are the main characters in the animated film Monsters, Inc..
Another lovable monster type Dietlind Neven -du -Mont has created The Getüm (1970 ) in her book.
Famous Monsters
Generally known Monster
- Boogeyman
- Cthulhu
- Dragon
- Digimon - Digital Monsters ( a creation of the toy manufacturer Bandai )
- Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Frankenstein's Monster
- Godzilla (see Toho Studios; kaiju ) Gamera
- Mothra
- Rodan
- Medusa
Fictional works
- Myth of Bellerophon
- Beowulf
- Call of Cthulhu
- Beauty and the Beast, traditional folk tales from France (ca. 18th century), which was filmed several times and staged as a musical
- Dracula
- Frankenstein
- Dragon Slayer Legend of Saint George
- The twelve labors ( " Dodekathlos " ) for Eurystheus ( Heracles ) Nemean Lion
- Lernaean snake
- Kerynitische doe
- Erymanthian boar
- Stymphalian birds
- Cretan bull
- Horses of Diomedes ( ogre )
- Geryon
- Kerberos
Mathematics
- The Monster group is the most powerful sporadic simple group.
- The baby monster is a slightly smaller, but still very powerful sporadic simple group.