The Scissors and the Chimera

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The Scissors and the Chimera Part lion, part serpent, part goat, and part dragon. From Greek mythology comes the birth of the Chimera: a hybrid creature with “the fore part of a lion, in the hinder of a serpent, and in the midst of a goat, breathing forth in terrible wise the might of blazing fire,” (Homer, line 180). She seems to have become the original inspiration for fiction's hybrid monsters, later influencing the fiction of Genetic Biology and Engineering itself as a means of putting man, beast, and machine together. Cartwright and Sturken discuss how people interact in their book “The Practices of Looking” and how we would respond to meeting a hybrid ourselves. Tim Burton seemingly answered the call, and gave us the internationally beloved hybrid: Edward Scissorhands, and how his story represents our humanity. Edward Scissorhands, like Frankenstein's monster, was put together piece by piece of human flesh and bone. He was discovered in the corner of the attic of the abandoned Gothic mansion on the hill where Edward lives. He is found wearing a very dark body suit, covered in belts, rings, and buckles. Throughout the movie, he never takes them off his person, instead he wears it underneath all of his clothing. His hair is always greasy and messy and his skin is terribly pale in comparison to a normal person's skin. His lips are black and pursed, his eyes are small, and his eyebrows are up as if he was sad. His most notable feature are his hands, which in fact are scissors. They are razor sharp, as
Delosreyes 2 he can cut through ice and make sculptures with ease. When Peggy first met him in the mansion, he appeared extremely threatening emerging from the shadows with the silhouette of his scissor-hands becoming visible. Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare On Elm Street, a film that came six years before, whose infamous knife-hand had extreme