Face on, face off : alternative depictions of humanity and monstrosity in silent hill 2 and amnesia : the dark descent

• Main Author: Ong, Sher Li
• Other Authors: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61633
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper discusses the notion of unmasking a monster as a means of defeating it, and the ways in which this idea reveals several conventional ideas about monstrosity and humanity. This process of unmasking is dependent on three main assumptions: that there exists a binary division between monstros...