Beasts of Burden: ‘Shadow of the Colossus’ and the Monster of Want
People have a broad tendency to want to simplify evil. In that sense the idea of a monster can be as comforting as it is frightening. After all, as bad as a person might get, as far as they might go, and as many terrible sins as they might commit, they can always frame themselves against a monster, imagined or otherwise, in order to diminish the evils that they have been party to.