Fear and Trembling

Shantay’s Letter S Faults…every single human being has to have at least one. “The Scarlet Letter” is a piece of literary work that shows how the faults every person has can be used to brand them for life. Whether it’s being too malicious, being too closed-minded, or even talking too noisy, everyone has one. Someone could be the most ordinary person that nobody would think differently about, but even they have flaws. Some individuals may think that they only have one flaw, but it is not the…

A Guide to Reading Cause or Effect Essays A brief look at humans reveals more than the eye can elicit. For starters, King defines the natural state, a refined trait of humans, insanity, to be something that we have come to quarter in our spiritual abode. Even more so, he goes to on state “if we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree”. The ramifications to what degree sanity is defined by is its ability to abide by society; a social norm, of which watching horror movies suffices.…

Russel was a terribly timid man, so fearful that the villagers labelled him “Russel the Spineless”, yelling various insults as he walked around their little village each day. They did so without fear of retaliation, as they knew he was not brave enough to try anything. Out of all his tormentors, the most profound was the grave digger, who had hated Russel ever since he learnt that Russel was too scared to consider even crossing the cemetery. This man never missed an opportunity to mock him. It…

Front, Paul kills a man using a knife seeing his face and the look in his eyes. He later says “We always see too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death” and later “how could you be my enemy”. The guilt and pain seen in this part is clear, he had just taken the life of a man and realized that they weren’t very different. Imagine the effect that would have on you if you had just done…

situation he could manipulate Sonny as he pleased for Sonny feared death. The same went with me once my sister convinced me that there was something haunting my toy I would believe anything that she said because I was horrified of these “possessed” toys. Fear can be one of the most powerful emotions and it can be used to exploit one psychologically. Quote #2 from OR: “It’s just that before we didn't know who we were stealing from. Knowing where it’s form doesn't make any difference” (Smith 288).…

them to be misfit and out of place, and the solution of putting that fear into action is there must be “an abundance of opportunities”, and also “a tradition of self-reliance”. According to Hoffer, “Even the change from peas to string beans had in it elements of fear”; This means that even a change as small as a bean can cause great amount of fears, then what even about drastic change? Fortunately, people can overturn their fear of drastic change into action and therefore fit into the new…

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. A personal experience of fear that I have been…

For the final week of the abstinence exercise, I felt very confident that I would be able to continue to resist eating large amounts of sugar in my diet after the abstinence exercise had ended. I felt very proud of the progress I had made, and I felt very grateful for the support I had received from friends and family throughout my experience. I was also very excited that I would now be able to indulge in some sugar and feel confident that I would not revert back to the unhealthy amount of…

I have dealt with social anxiety all my life and never in a million years did I think that just getting out and actually facing my fears, would help me conquer them. Ehmke stated that “practicing the things that make you nervous, is actually expanding your ability to handle them”. For the most part this intervention was very helpful, but I wish I would have incorporated something to…

Literature published during the Gothic era served as dreary and pessimistic examples for life. Gothic literature connects its own motivation to a character’s to communicate the bitter reality of consequences. It uses physical traits and personality to show fear and motivation behind specific events. By giving characters traits that connect to their motivation, gothic literature is able to play out events that would otherwise seem bizarre. In Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Roderick…