Monstrous boundaries

Thanks to my colleague Sue Spearey for this binary set.

Monster: from L " to warn" : the embodiment of things that frighten society.


Monstrous Boundaries

picture from Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are

control / wildness
beauty / grotesqueness
education / ignorance
speech / silence
sanity / madness
civilization / nature, barbarity
science / magic,supernatural
orthodoxy / heresy
community / exile