Examples Of Fear In George Orwell's '1984'

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Last year on this day, I was in an interview for the position of a Lifeguard/Instructor, even though I had all my certifications recently, but I had no experience teaching a real class. Unfortunately, I was given the hardest class to teach in that interview and I was not good at public speaking at all. As a result of that, I got rejected right on the spot, making the first rejection in my life , it was a tough moment for me.
Well, my goal of overcoming my fear of public speaking during the required time frame actually made me get the job in the next interview. Thus, using my life’s example, you can get one point through, that sooner or later we have to face our fears.
In our society, there are different type of people with all sorts of different kinds of fears.This can be portrayed in the novel 1984, where Winston shouts, "Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!" (Orwell 300).This illustrates how densely Winston has a fear of rats that he pasess the torture to Julia . This quote from the novel also demonstrates that fear is in everyone but is present
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I feel that the reason why we all fear death is that there is nothing after death, just an endless state of nothingness, not even unconsciousness. Not even blackness, not even no thought, an absence of anything, thought, processes, colour or anything, just an eternity of nothingness, not even darkness, just nonexistence. And the reason why my biggest fear is death as whenever I think of death, pain is the first word that comes into my mind. Although in the movie V for Vendetta, V overcomes the fear of death. “I see you do not fear death”(V for Vendetta 2005).The word you in this dialogue is being referred to V, where he overcame the fear of death because of his fearless, determined revenge on the government on what they had done to him and the whole society in the

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