Topic > They hide under your bed and in your head - 607

They hide under your bed and in your headMonsters. They are the things in the stories that follow you home; they are hidden in your closet, under your bed and they invade your head. They are scary, horrible and evil; they haunt your waking hours, keep you from sleeping, but, more importantly, they reflect on ourselves and our civilization. We have all read many books containing monsters, having been introduced to them from an early age. Although the main goal of those books was to teach us about fear and how to overcome it, most of us realized how scary and evil the monsters were and feared them greatly from then on. As the years passed, we were taught not to be afraid of monsters, but to fall in love with them. We've been so whitewashed by books like Twilight and Warm Bodies that we no longer focus on the threat of monsters, but only on how cool they are. Nowadays for a "tweenage" girl, a typical "monster" is Edward Cullen, who, despite being a vampire, is not even a real monster. If you compare it to the original Dracula, you can see how much our c...