The Role of Human Beings in the Creation of Monsters

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The Role of Human Beings in the Creation of Monsters
Introduction
In Stephen King’s words, “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too.” A number of people take this ‘reality’ as a physical existence, only. Ghosts do exist and they are real but they have another existence too, a different one. It is their existence in the thoughts of people which helps creation of a monster. Different authors, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Stephen King have written about monsters and ghosts and have presented other supernatural concepts based on the idea that humans and sometimes their feelings, are the actual creators of monsters. Reading great texts like ‘The Hound of Baskervilles’ and ‘Shining’ by the authors mentioned above are exemplary and evidential of the argument drawn in the essay. The characters and their feelings, habits, internal and external conflicts, settings, the gloom and isolation of the settings, which give them the position of ‘characters’ have all played their instrumental and concrete role in creating the monsters. A close reading, comprehension and comparative study of these texts reveal that the gothic and other literary elements in the novel have also contributed to prove the physical, emotional and psychological existence of the monsters.
Existence of Monstrosity – A Comparative Analysis
Both of the texts, The Hound of Baskervilles and Shining are set on isolated places, gloomy, where one could enjoy solitude and seclusion. The Baskerville Hall at the dartmoor and the Overlook Hotel are dark places with eerie atmospheres and present weird conditions. Contextual evidence from the text describes the eeriness of the Monstrous, haunted hall using these words: “The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one’s soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm” (Doyle). “Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters” (King).  
In both of these novels, the monsters are created by human beings directly, e.g the hound was a fictitious monster created by Stapleton. In the same novel, Henry didn’t become a victim of the monster since he had control over his feelings and his nerves, but Stapleton couldn’t help himself and involved other minor characters too.
On the other hand, they are created psychologically by human feelings, also classified as inanimate elements, e.g. Jack turned into a ghost and his nostalgia, anger, frustration, anxiety and alcoholism contributed to his creation. The nature of Jack’s job: winter caretaker also represents a situation of loneliness, sadness and gloom. “This inhuman place makes human monsters” (King).  
In the other text, inanimate objects like gloom, grimness, isolation, seclusion and solitude, greed and hunger for more wealth and societal power compelled Stapleton to create a monster, or become one on his own. It can be commented that the feelings and the monsters arising out of those feelings directly represented the mental, emotional, psychological and social conditions of the human beings.
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