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Monsters
Aaron Jacobs
Garner
English 1101
22 November 2013
Monster Theses
All monsters have that one thing that sets them apart from the rest whether it’s the notorious big foot and his big foot, Michael Myers and his huge kitchen knife, or even werewolves and the fact that they transform when a full moon is out. Every monster is unique and different, but in the book Monsters there are seven theses and one thesis stood out. Theses number six in the book Monsters states that “Fear of the monster is really a kind of desire.” That thesis is true when it comes to a certain fictional monster by the name of Freddy Krueger.
Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He appears in Wes Craven 's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as a disfigured serial killer who uses a glove armed with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well (imdb.com). In the Nightmare on Elm Street series Freddy constantly toys around with his victims mainly the protagonist and instantly places fear into their hearts. It seems as if he takes pleasure in making his victims fear him before he actually kills them in a very gruesome manner.
On page twenty five, paragraph two of Monsters, there is a statement that says, “The monster awakens one to the pleasures of the body, to the simple and fleeting joys of being frightened, or frightening to the experience of mortality and corporality”(Brandy Blake & L Andrew Cooper 25). Anyone who has seen A Nightmare on Elm Street can tell that the antagonist Freddy Krueger loves frightening people in their dreams and that he loves it. Freddy makes his victims not even want to go to sleep and he feeds off of that fear and that leads to the poor innocent victim’s death. Another statement mentioned in the theses is “The co-optation of the monster into a symbol of the desirable is often accomplished through the neutralization of



Cited: 1.) RecceR.Biography for Freddy Krueger. 2010.Web. 5 Nov. 2012.) 2.) Adam-Troy Castro. Nightmare on Elm Street guide: 6 ways to kill Freddy.2010.Web.10 Nov. 2013) 3.) Brandon Ball Blake, and L. Andrew Cooper.Monsters.Southlake,Texas.Fountainhead Press.2012.Print

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