About Monsters by Meredith
My name is Meredith Hoffman and I am the proud creator of Monsters by Meredith. This blog was created for my American Horror Stories course and will be used to detail my literary journey throughout the semester. I have always had a certain fascination with the idea of fear and terror and I am extremely interested in the social construct of the monster. Where does what we would refer to as the "monster" derive from? What constitutes as a "monster"? What gives monsters the power that causes us to tremble at the mere thought of them? What are the monsters that society has created today? These are all questions that I will try and attempt to answer as a delve further into my close readings of various authors such a Poe, James, and Melville.
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