Fear of the Dark Essay

A lot of people are scared of the dark. People are scared of the dark because they can not see therefore they do know what surrounds them. Which does not make them scared of the dark but rather fear of the unknown. Humans want the security that they are safe. During WWII it was difficult for people to feel the security they desire. Since nobody had this security it felt to many of the Jews that it was Dark all the time, it was always night. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night shows that by using night…

atmosphere of fear, suspense, horror in “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” He does this by the words he chooses to set up a certain mood and tone that these stories need to be effective. To begin with, the mood in “The Cask of Amontillado” form creepy, dark and suspenseful through settings, word choices, and irony. This story took place at underground catacomb which already creates the dark atmosphere. Poe utilizes strong description to demonstrates the dark…

author you come across. Gothic is what brought the unconscious mind, also known as altered states, to the surface. The unconscious mind being, the fear you don’t seek. Most of the time in your dreams—or what you think to be your dreams. The unconscious mind shows you that with great hope, also comes great fear. It makes you think about the darkness you fear and creates it into your Gothic, which is why it scares you. Poe had his distinctive Gothic, as well as Hawthorne; Poe even may have come…

“The Sound of Night” Analysis It is human instinct to fear the dark. Whether it is the monsters under the bed or the noises that come when the sun goes down, individuals continue to be irrationally afraid of the night. In her poem “The Sound of Night,” Maxine Kumin manages to play on these emotions through the utilization of descriptive diction and repetition. Kumin’s word choice within the poem allows the speaker to emphasize the sounds in the forest, create an irrationally fearful tone, and…

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove embodies the transition from classical to post classical cinema though its dark comedic portrayal of America’s biggest fear during the cold war: the bomb in a less than subtle or “PG” way, a feat not possible to even consider undergoing in classical Hollywood, and that’s without noting criticism of the US government. Though the dark comedic stylings of the film don’t fully describe the post classical transition on their own, it's the underlying lack of…

Greek tragedies. If anything, the Protagonists rise against the monster and conquer their fears, many things most children could not do. Pennywise the clown is not scary, but yet the way he tantalizes the children is deeply unsettling. “He’s coy—he toys with these kids—making his sudden bursts of insane clown hostility that much more shocking,”(Christy Lemire). The moral of the film is to conquer your fears, so they do not conquer you, but that is easier said than done. The fall of the…

In “Something Wicked this way comes” by Ray Bradbury, Mr. Dark is the villain in the story making him the Devil Figure. He is evil incarnate meaning he is naturally an evil person who is out to get who ever comes in his way. One way Mr. Dark is shown to be a Devil Figure is through his tattoos “you must be the Tattooed Man…no the Illustrated Man” (Bradbury74). He is the Illustrated man owing the fact that every tattoo is meaningful unlike the Tattooed Man. For every person that that scrambles…

Power, is the ability to do something. Forms of superiorities can be social power, money, fear, or even physical strength. Power in all of its forms are sought after and wanted. In the short story,“ The Stolen Party,” by Liliana Heker a girl by the name of Rosaura is “invited” to her “friend’s” party but in reality Rosara was never invited as a guess. In Ray Bradbury's “The Fog Horn,” a monster of sorts emerges out of the water after hear the sound of its kind, it longs to be with another of a…

Childhood fears Childhood fears In adults, the fear - it is a psychological reaction caused by the instinct of self-preservation. The mechanism of special children's fears. Children are often afraid of things, is not able to bring them harm in real life. Fears of children are developing, together with an active imagination works. Some fear a child can "grow", and in order to overcome the other, you may need assistance to adults or even a psychologist. Causes of childhood fears The…

The ferry scene in the movie, The Dark Knight, also presented another ethical problem: the Prisoner Dilemma (Mlawski 1). To sum it all up, two boats are in the water and each boat has until midnight to detonate the other ships ordinance or both ferries will be destroyed. There are civilians in one boat and prisoners in the other boat. Each boat has to make a choice – kill or be killed – confess or stay quiet. Not to mention that the clock is ticking. Of course, neither the civilian boat nor the…