In my Painting 2 course, which I took in the fall of 2012, my instructor Chris Finley suggested that I, being an aspiring acting art teacher, apply the my plans to myself. So I thought back to my most successful lesson: “Aaagh! Monsters!” In that class, I asked my students, ages 5 to 8, to create their own monster. We did a little research on monsters that other people have created in books, other appropriate visual media, and throughout history. I then asked them to tell me specific things about their monsters such as their names, where they lived, what they ate, and so on, so that they could better understand who or what their monsters were and be able to better represent them. clearly. The children loved creating something new and distinctly their own. It was a success for me because, for the first time, some parents came to me to tell me that their children were so excited to come to my classroom that day. However, when it came to applying this same concept to myself, I found that I kept drifting towards darker, more unchildlike ideas. Then I came across a quote that so eloquently stated, “we stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized they were inside us,” and it clicked. Unlike children's monsters, my monsters were things inside me. I allowed myself to delve into the emotions and psychological states of being that haunted me the most and realized that these were my monsters. Therefore, I let them speak to me in a way I had never experienced before. It became apparent that I was nothing more than a means to their introduction to the outside world. This realization led me to think about what other people's monsters eat, where they live, and what......medium of paper......city addressed cultural fears about scientists playing God. In the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker's 1897, the main character Dracula is a vampire portrayed as a monstrous creature who is also seductive and charismatic with the intent to claim one's innocence and pervert it to satisfy one's basic needs. Vampires, like Dracula, indicated fears about the collapse of traditional moral values, fears about sexuality, and fears of moving away from religion towards a more secular worldview. Stoker's novel also plays on fears of foreigners or "others" by being based on the real-life monster whose cruel reputation transformed him into the famous 15th century Romanian leader Vlad the Impaler.VI. Question Five: How do these monsters affect us individually, both psychologically and emotionally?VII. Conclusion: what have I learned? It's annoying