Part A
Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Premature Burial explores the narrator's fear of being buried alive. The theme is that you can overcome your fears as long as you don't focus on the dark and dreary things in life. Throughout the whole story, the narrator is consumed by his fears. He has catalepsy, which is a physical condition in which the person cannot move or speak. This condition can last from hours to months! The narrator does not want to be alone but he does not want to be around people because he is afraid that they will think that he is dead. "No event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and mental distress as is burial before death." The narrator goes through other incidents of people being buried alive where some don't make it back out. Back then, being buried alive happened a lot, so it was a rational fear. Towards the end of the story, after he awakes from his dream, he becomes a new man. This new man learns to conquer his fears and eventually loses his catalepsy.
Part B
The theme in "The Premature Burial" is that you can overcome your fears as long as you don't focus on the dark and dreary things in life. As a gymnast, fear happens to be a daily occurrence. I have avoided, gone around, …show more content…
Being a gymnast, fear is an everyday occurrence. I have avoided and ignored fear. In the end you realize to escape fear, you have to go through it, not around. Usually when I am afraid to do a skill nobody will know. My friends always say they wish they weren't afraid of things like me but I have gone through so many fears. I try not to acknowledge my fear so I can just push through it. I think in the end of "The Premature Burial" he realizes that you cannot let your fear of what could happen make nothing happen and that the real monsters are inside of us. That is something I can relate to very
Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Premature Burial explores the narrator's fear of being buried alive. The theme is that you can overcome your fears as long as you don't focus on the dark and dreary things in life. Throughout the whole story, the narrator is consumed by his fears. He has catalepsy, which is a physical condition in which the person cannot move or speak. This condition can last from hours to months! The narrator does not want to be alone but he does not want to be around people because he is afraid that they will think that he is dead. "No event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and mental distress as is burial before death." The narrator goes through other incidents of people being buried alive where some don't make it back out. Back then, being buried alive happened a lot, so it was a rational fear. Towards the end of the story, after he awakes from his dream, he becomes a new man. This new man learns to conquer his fears and eventually loses his catalepsy.
Part B
The theme in "The Premature Burial" is that you can overcome your fears as long as you don't focus on the dark and dreary things in life. As a gymnast, fear happens to be a daily occurrence. I have avoided, gone around, …show more content…
Being a gymnast, fear is an everyday occurrence. I have avoided and ignored fear. In the end you realize to escape fear, you have to go through it, not around. Usually when I am afraid to do a skill nobody will know. My friends always say they wish they weren't afraid of things like me but I have gone through so many fears. I try not to acknowledge my fear so I can just push through it. I think in the end of "The Premature Burial" he realizes that you cannot let your fear of what could happen make nothing happen and that the real monsters are inside of us. That is something I can relate to very