Monsters!

MONSTERS!

Choose a monster that has been around for awhile. Then, become as expert as you can on the history of this monster as he/she appears, possibly in slightly altered guise, in mythology, literature, film, and other entertainment media.

Create a 3-minute powerpoint (or similar) presentation in which you educate us on this monster. Some questions you should address in your presentation:

·               who is this monster?

·               What does he/she look like?

·               What is this monster notorious for?

·               Where does this monster first appear?

·               Where else does it appear?

·               Is this monster “alive” today?

·               What are this monster’s monstrous traits?

·               Who generally battles this monster?

·               Does the monster have a weakness? What is it?

·               What does this monster represent in terms of the anxieties of each milieu in which it appears? (ancient greek civilization, Victorian era Europe, 21^st century America, etc.

·               Does what the monster represents change or evolve? From what to what?

·               Is there a side to the monster that is pleasurable or alluring?

·               Might the monster elicit our envy for some reason?

Why is this monster scary? Is there something primitive and unchanging—something “unive