Every Day Monsters <Tab/> In the fifteen hundreds, "monsters" were as real as today's politicians and celebrities, and public discourse about them helped contribute to their mythical status in the social realm. No one doubted their existence, their presence created spectacles in any public place, and those who were lucky enough to see these subhuman creatures were quick to confirm that they were, in fact, "real". Perhaps we must determine how …
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…genetic predispositions. Nonetheless, attempts to circumvent these causes (incurring God's wrath) resulted in the perpetuation of social control, through means of the negative label. Inherent in Parè's account of these monsters is the element of events that are beyond one's control. By labeling natural phenomena, or birth deformities and defects, Ambroise Parè and the people of his time, were trying to understand and dominate something that terrified them.