Sympathising with the monster by subverting the human-monster dichotomy in fantastic beasts and where to find them

• Main Author: Jahafar, Mohammed
• Other Authors: Jane Wong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70403
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With the idea of being human disjointed, it resultantly becomes complicated to delineate what it means to be a monster in opposition to this problematic notion of humankind. Michel Foucault’s exposure of the cracks in humanism, coupled with Freud, and Kristeva’s concepts provide a catechistic framew...