Fear can impact and control you making you do things that you shouldn’t be doing. What is fear? Fear can be used in many ways in movies, plays, and real life. People either fear too much or not much in today’s society. As in Good Night and Good Luck and The Crucible, fear was a factor in both Salem witch trials and the search for the communist the in 1950s, it is still a factor in today’s society.…
Fear means Forget Everything and Run. People have many fears. Can fears motivate people? In my opinion, appeals to fear are the best motivational force, when people are scared into doing the correct thing, forced to think about their future, and think that God will be so mad at them and make them go to hell. Appeals to fear are the best motivational force because some people are scared into doing the correct thing.…
It does this in many ways. One way it did this is by reading how horrible people would be treated if they are "unconverted" in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. " For example, "The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword whet, and held over them, and the pit…
8.) Do not indulge in fear-motivated behavior; instead, replace it with behavior motivated by emotions of love and compassion. Usually, we tend to think about the disappointing moments of our past. That leads to the development of fear. Thinking about our past events leads to fear that they should not recur, and we feel threatened by such fears.…
Both The Crucible and Good Night and Good Luck are stories about how fear controled people. Even though to some it seemed that they were doing the right thing. Fear is a useful tool to control people;Abigail used the existing power of the church, to frame people, McCarthy used the fear of communists to control people and the government they both used fear. In New England, of Colonial America, the Puritan Church held lots of power over their citizens.…
Fear appeal is an emotional strategy that creates fear in the audience to motivate them to agree with the rhetor and take action. A fear appeal draws on basic needs that the audience cares for, and presents it as something at risk that can be solved with the rhetor’s idea and direct action. The appeal is an attempt to scare the audience that something bad will happen to their needs if they don’t create change. A fear appeal used on the subject of binge drinking can show that a person could die from alcohol poisoning.…
So in other words scaring people into what might happen to them in the future makes them want to change and make their lives better. Sometimes the only way to help people change their lives around is to scare them of what might happen to them. Edwards states in "Sinners of An Angry God" that " the devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up; fire pent up in their own heart is struggling to break out" (41). He wants the unconverted people to accept God by scaring them into thinking God is upset with them and that hell is waiting for…
By showcasing the “wrath of Almighty God” and creating a sense of fear in the audience and making them gullible, Edwards takes the chance to reach his goal: converting non believers (Edwards 156). He proceeds to state, “And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open…” (Edwards 156). Due to the fear present in the audience, they see the forgiveness that “God” offers them. Fear provoked many to become gullible without realizing it,…
Fear as a Propaedeutic (Dante’s use of fear as a propaedeutic) Dante Alighieri wrote a famous book called Dante’s Divine Comedy in the 1300s that is still used in classrooms today. The most famous text of Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic poem called Dante’s Inferno. In this epic poem Dante makes a trip through Hell, purgatory, and heaven. Virgil serves as Dante’s guide through the underworld.…
Death by Truth The only thing stronger than fear is the lack of it. The fears of masses have timelessly been manipulated by the people who had none and we 're not scared to extort those of others. This had happened in the Salem Witchcraft Trials from 1692 to 1693 where 19 to 21 girls had been put to death by hanging because of claims they were witches and practicing witchcraft. Witchcraft they believed had come from the devil who they thought to be a real being living around them.…
Between the months of February 1692 and and May 1693 in Massachusetts there was a up bringing of rumors of witchcraft in the small town of Salem. In “ The Crucible “ by Arthur Miller revenge is shown through characters, fear is shown through plot , and hysteria is shown through theme. Fear is shown through plot by the lie that has gone too far and is ruining people's lives on telling the truth. In one instance John Proctor is taking Mary Warren to court to confess she lied about everything and so the girls. “ I cannot lie no more.…
“What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” The quote centers on a favorable type of fear as so does Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Crucible, and The Scarlet Letter. Although fear is perceived as a negative emotion it is an essential component for positive behavior and a catalyst for righteous actions. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God purpose revolves against horrifying christians on the horrors of hell and creating an urgent inceptive to be forgiven from all sins committed. The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter take place during the Massachusetts colony in North America and display outcomes of confessions specifically on adultery.…
Have you ever experienced the powerful attraction of fear? Have you ever wonder why your imagination run wild when you experience something terrifying? Sometimes people react differently to fear as they normally would. Fear is a compelling phenomenon that drives people to react different or even against their own will when they are stimulated by fear. Imagination overcomes reason when the need for something to be true overwhelms the logic of an individual.…
Fear can drive people to their extremes. Many people live in fear of their government and/ or other personal controlling in their society. Some people believe that the government is always right and that they do not lie. The government can cause “accidents” to happen and frame it on other ethnic cultures which cause a society to rely on the government. Fear causes suspicion, terror, and a government that is controlling popular belief.…
The image people often conjure up when the word fear is uttered is similar among the many. It is a negative, unwanted, and evil picture which further proves that fear is a negative and harmful emotion because it causes one who is induced with it to make hasty and rash decisions without a second of thought. It is an emotion that works its magic in a way that no other emotion really does, it comes and goes whenever it is called just like any other emotion. However, when it arrives it carries the fate of that person's life, even if it is only for a couple of seconds. In both the Crucible and The Scarlet Letter, fear is shown to be doing just that, clouding the minds of many characters and impairing their judgement.…