The shark is drawn by different artists to create a single effect: that of awe, monstrosity, and malice. The initial portrayal of the shark is reminescent of the sea creatures found in medieval manuscripts and mappae mundi. It differs from different pictures in resemblence to an actual sea-creature and its lack of mobility. Many of the later artists have drawn the creature is a state of attack posed fully to the eye of the spectator. It this picture, however, the majority of the beast is outside of frame allowing each spectator to speculate as to the “part of the iceberg under water”. Furthermore, its static stance give a notion of eternity, the platonic archetype of a shark: frozen in the frame and frozen in time as the definition of pure beastial inddiference (the enormous unemotive eyes) and hunger.