One of the most primal motivators that facilitate survival in people is fear. The two protagonists, the Man and the Boy, from Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ demonstrate survival and perseverance through their internal fears, motivating them to continue to ‘carry the fire’ within such a hostile and frightening landscape. Their fear manifests in this novel in three main ways: their fear of loss, their fear of the unknown, and the fear of others. These three fears are demonstrated by both...
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Fear of death is not a new phenomenon. People have been scared to die ever since our species evolved into existence One of the explanations for people developing a fear of death is the idea of the afterlife. The afterlife is a huge mystery to all human beings. The only people who know are, well, dead. Sure, many people have beliefs about what will happen to them after death, but a belief is not the same as knowing. Part of...
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Fear, a fundamental human emotion, is an experience shared by all humanity, regardless of culture or era. By definition, it is an unpleasant, often strong emotion resulting from the anticipation or awareness of danger. This primal sensation serves as a powerful catalyst in our lives, shaping our actions and responses to the world around us. Evolutionary Origins of Fear: A Survival Mechanism Historically, fear served as a survival mechanism designed to protect our ancestors from imminent threats. The origins of...
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You, me and all of us have probably faced various forms of fear in this life. I think the number is no longer counted. Tens of thousands or even millions of times throughout our time, alternating like day and night. Like graphs, fluctuations up and down. In the past, when we were at school, for example, we were afraid during the school exam. When we enter university, we are very afraid of the thesis. And when we start looking for...
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Transformation, transformation plays a key role in stories meant to scare us. “In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence–an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome a habitual residency–on excessive nervous agitation.”(p9 fall of the house of usher) this excerpt from the passage shows just how the usher has changed throughout the years. When they were young they would hang out all...
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Human beings have consumed horror and all that relates to it throughout the beginning of culture, rituals, and the introduction of storytelling. For many, it is a euphoric sense of release and a much sought-after thrill of escapism consumed in a variety of ways through media, such as literature and film. ‘The connections between civilization and horror are very clear: the origins of civilization are in violence; ritual and other forms of sacred violence are used o channel otherwise uncontrollably...
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Ever since I was young, my biggest fear has always been heights, I have other fears too, but none of them triggers me like this one. Maybe because I’m afraid of falling but to be honest I really don’t understand why. It’s not even being in the sky however like tall bridges or anything of that sort. The first time she ever traveled on a flight was when they were coming to the United States of America. Around that time,...
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According to Martin Gansbery from Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call The Police “law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks”. Thirty-eight “law-abiding citizens” who after hearing “he stabbed me! Please Help me! Please help me!” did nothing but slide open their windows and turn on their lights. Even “Assistant Chief Inspector Frederick M. Lassen, in charge of the borough’s detectives and a veteran of twenty-five years of homicide investigations”, was distraught...
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The award-winning author, Tim O’Brien, wrote the novel ‘The Things They Carried’, which was a collection of short stories based on O’Brien’s experiences in the Vietnam War. He elaborates on the brutality soldiers go through during battle and the morals of a true war story. Introduced in the chapter ‘The Things They Carried’, Ted Lavender is a young soldier, who is always apprehensive and copes with his fears with various items, such as dope and tranquilizers, that he carries throughout...
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North Koreans, from childhood, are indoctrinated to idolize their leaders and to never doubt the system in which they live. This manipulation and brainwashing stems from insecurity and fear residing in the souls of North Korea’s dictators, making them believe that complete control is a necessity for their rule. They believe that for the government to maintain control, it must have complete submission from their people, which creates an atrocious environment for the population to experience every day of their...
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The 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt once said during the presidential election of 1932, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. Roosevelt was trying to describe that fear is the one thing to be afraid of since it can be used to manipulate many with fears and make them act irrationally, which gives them false hope of security. In Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, he uses fear in the story to show us how...
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We all have fear, it’s a natural instinct and we cope with those fears differently because we are all different with our own unique personalities! In the book “Lord of the Flies” the author William Golding shows the fears of Jack, Ralph, and Piggy and chooses specific ways for them to cope with that fear. Each of the three boys react to fear in their own special way. All the boys have a fear but in the end the only...
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There is an epidemic spreading across human society. It is the consumption of easy to perceive ideas. Award winning American author Ray Bradbury warns us of it’s grim effects in his Fahrenheit 451. Average, upstanding middle-aged Guy Montag finds himself dissatisfied with his life, realizing that there is more to experience than society allows. He is a fireman in dystopian civilization, and it is his job to burn any books that are found to exist. Having not thought anything unusual...
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Your fear is not real. Whatever fear you think is holding you back, does not exist. What does seem to prevail is F.E.A.R; an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. It is an illusion. Something you fabricate in your minds and pretend is real when really there is no threat. There is no threat of immediate physical danger or loss of something loved. So why do you become so afraid? In William Golding’s remarkable novel, Lord of the Flies, a...
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Human nature causes similar behavior when conflict arises, regardless of what group one may be in. This is illustrated in many different writings over time. For example, the societies from Lord of the Flies and The Crucible, while they have several obvious differences, but they are very similar. Both societies had the potential to be successful, yet ultimately collapsed when conflict approached. Groups can be dangerous, controlled by fear, and are heavily influenced by their environment. This is illustrated through...
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In India, persons aged 60 or exceeding the age of 60 are considered elderly or senior citizens. The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 (Gazette of India, December 2007) statesthat a senior citizen as a person who has reached the age of 60 years or exceeding. Nevertheless, under the law relating to income tax in India, persons are regarded as senior citizens only after they become 65 years old. Those who are between 60 and 74...
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What makes us fear? Fear is a cognitive, intellectual, emotional, and empirical cognition. Fear itself does not represent facts, but fear itself is the message that we subconsciously send to ourselves that we are at risk. Fear is what helps us survived in the past million years. Humans right now have technologies to help us survive but our ancestors in the past are at the bottom of the food chain, which is really weak. We know a human is very...
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Introduction In the study of psychology, research has always looked at emotions and the role they play in everyday behaviour as well as in pathological behaviour. Several studies have shown that emotionally charged stimuli attract human attention quicker and have an advantage in information processing. Stimuli that are emotionally negative in nature tend to grab attention automatically and more quickly (Wieser, 2010). When studying emotions in social situations, more often than not researchers tend to use facial expressions. Facial expressions...
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Fear doubt and guilt are prevalent results of any type of abuse from a partner and form unhealthy relationships.The Long Term Effects of Abuse and Stress Ruins not only the relationships but Lives as well. It is easy to get wrapped up in the ups and downs of emotionally abusive on and off relationship. Victims too often miss the signs of emotional abuse, even though they are most likely there from the beginning. Narcissists are the most common perpetrators of...
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The average person ingests eight spiders per year while sleeping. A ridiculous and yet commonly heard myth that continues to spread. It is not a secret that even just the thought of spiders is enough to elicit fear out of people, but many people may not know why society has this automatic response. Many people may also not know why it is that a simple arachnid is able to produce such a large emotion out of the general population. Fear...
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Introduction “The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.” (90) A human’s fears should not be taken lightly. Fear could do anything to a person’s mind, even without fear a man can become as savage as an animal. Fear can haunt a person to a point of self-destruction and can be inside of everyone. Even if a person can overcome fear, it can still be very dangerous, it affects the person along with everyone and...
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“Fear defeats hope” is a satirical cartoon composed by a retired Australian political cartoonist, (Sourced from the Saturday paper) Geoff Pryor. This cartoon cleverly broadcasts an in-depth insight of society through its various range of shadings and dialect. This cartoon also cleverly implements the concept of allusion into the overall message. This cartoon is an extremely successful piece of stimulus at getting the main point across to the audience as it conveys an astounding amount of creativity which is anticipated...
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Fear is often based on an absence of information. This year celebrates the 65th anniversary of ‘The Crucible’ written by Arthur Miller. A play based on the Salem Witch trials of 1692 when, nineteen people were persecuted and subsequently imprisoned or hanged after they were accused of witchcraft based on nothing but accusation and hearsay. Arthur Miller himself had been condemned by the US congress for his un-American communist political leanings. He was blacklisted and his career suffered as a...
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Fear of the unknown, a person’s natural tendency of perceived fear based on an absence of information at different levels of consciousness. This year celebrates the 65th anniversary of ‘The Crucible’ written by Arthur Miller based on the Salem Witch trials in 1692. He was denounced for discourtesy and condemnation of the U.S. Congress as Miller was ineffective in providing names of various individuals who attended consultations with him, this encouraged Miller to write a play reflecting the political madness...
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Arthur Miller’s allegorical play, ‘The Crucible, and Geraldine Brooks’s work of historical fiction, ‘Year of Wonders’, explore how religious despotism engenders fear and suppression within communities, as well as the adverse impacts such feelings can incite. As the religious ethos of the seventeenth century transitioned from pagan-inflected control to puritanical theocracy, fear and suppression become much more prevalent in society, and were used as a form of subjugation. This is evident in the events that occur in both texts, and...
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Fear can be described in many ways, whether it is out of supernatural experiences, haunting or fear suffered by characters in a book. The topic of fear is depicted by the authors in both Beloved and Dracula. Fear in each of the texts can be fuelled by the reader’s interpretation or within the author’s objectives to create a perception of fear for the reader to feel. One aspect of fear in ‘Beloved’, is depicted through the idea that Beloved is...
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As a child, I dreamed that I would become rich and travel to the cozy cities of Europe. But, being in the center of Barcelona, I did not feel the peculiarity of the moment. Everything happened consistently and even logically. My journey, which began in a small village, continued in the capital in an unexpected way for many. And all because I was not afraid to dream. Successful graduation from school and passing the exams allowed me to enter a...
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Fear. We all experience it universally every day as a basic emotion. Everywhere we go, everything we do, fear is hidden deep in our minds. Some might not consider fear’s power over us, thinking it’s too small of emotion to be in control of our ginormous body, and our even bigger life. Fear is just known to be a survival instinct, only to take control in dire situations, it sounds like we benefit from it, don’t we? Phobia comes from...
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Introduction to Emotions Do you ever wonder what your dog is thinking? Does she miss you when you leave for work in the morning? What is he trying to say as he holds that toy in his mouth and wiggles all over, greeting you at the door? While we aren’t sure of what they would say, many of us would agree that our dogs certainly have emotions to some extent. But does a hermit crab become sad when its shell...
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The film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by Edgar Wright, is overdramatized however, it does conclude very well that anger and fear are instinctual emotions that are primarily connected with motivation. Motivation and Emotions are distinct constructs however, when dealing with emotions of instincts, namely fear and anger, motivation and emotion have more similarities than differences. Fear is an emotion that one experiences when feeling endangered and drives individuals to follow their instincts to escape or freeze. Anger is...
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