For your term paper, you will select a monster from any time period, from any medium (book, TV, film, etc), and analyze its purpose in the culture of its day.
I chose Cyclopes.
For your term paper, you will examine:
the creature’s purpose is in the narrative,
identify the primary audience for the story, and
the symbolism of the monster and what it represents.
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For this first part of the term paper, write a page explaining
which monster you will write about;
why you chose this monster; and
what you hope to learn in your research for the term paper.