Fear mongering

within Europe between 1347 and 1400 killing 25 – 50 million people. During this dark era, people ran like beheaded poultry in fear. No religious officials or medical physicians could truly grasp the concept of the plague. The plague was truly a widespread panic that touched every corner of Europe and left chaos in its wake. People responded to the disaster with immeasurable fear. Anarchy ran loose and leadership was spread thin within most towns and villages. Many of these leadership issues…

monster might make you think of a lot of a different things. When most people hear it they think of vampires or something in life. Another type or monster that you would think off is a zombie. Zombies are pretty thought off today and a lot of people fear them. “Modern monsters” today is very different now than it was in several years ago. Today monster is a very broad word, because it can mean so many different thing to different people. Most people used to think that almost all monsters were…

to ask where it was. My wrists were chained to the wall. Montresor chuckles as he chains my ankles and neck to the stones. It sends an uneasy feeling flooding through me. I can feel the soberness leaking back into me like an old friend. I Screech as fear floods through me as I realize I am chained. The cold, silver shackles imprisoning me. My shoulders quickly get soar in the chains. The room is dimly lit by the torch and shadows cast on the walls and the ground. Montresor has walked over to a…

Facing Vulnerability: Why Not? When most people think of vulnerability they think of things such as fear, humility, and a sense of helplessness. This comes almost as a normal thing for many. Therefore, these things can cause personal issues that have potential to lead into things such as anxiety and the idea that people have to be perfect in a sense. However, for myself, I believe vulnerability is something much different. Being vulnerable to me is a time of strength for two reasons: I learn…

It was a dark and windy night. I, Anthony Marston, was in the living room with all the other soldiers. We all were discussing about how we were going to get out of Skull Island. Some soldiers gave terrible ideas while others gave brilliant ideas. Instead I suggested to stay on the island and find out why it is all over the news. We also were trying to figure out who lured all of us onto the island as well. I then feel a lot of thirst, so I get up to get a drink of whiskey. While I am at the…

as 'remote,' from the heart of the house, and 'chill', as there was 'seldom a fire,' we begin to fear for 10 year old Jane who is left alone in a cold, dark and eerie room, alone with the dead. The reader is then informed about the 'strange little figure,' which Jane personifies, by writing that it starred at her and had 'glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still'. Moving eyes of fear suggest that though death is present in the room, there is still an mysterious life lurking…

overdrive and provide acute specifications of what the author intends top convey. The figurative language in this poem develops the relationship between the speaker and the swamp by describing more in-depth the fear and respect that the character has for this environment. Rather than simple fear and respect, the reader begins to understand the appreciation along with the calamity that the speaker holds for the swamp and the swamp brings to the speaker. This figurative language feeds off of the…

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…