Fear mongering

Have you ever been faced with a danger so fierce that your mind became clouded with fear? What are some thoughts you may have if you were in a situation like this? Imagine being trapped in a place with no visible way out, succumbed to intimidating surroundings. In Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, the central idea is fear. Bram Stoker demonstrates this idea by using the literary devices of conflict and point of view. Conflict is when drama is added into the story. Point of view is the perspective that the…

Why do we as a people fear monsters and similar entities? Throughout history people have created stories centered around monsters who would terrorize communities. These stories would be used to rationalize findings they couldn’t understand. These monsters were used to rationalize dieses, deaths and many other occurrences. These monsters still persist in stories today because over time they would evolve past what they stood for and would become symbols of our primal fears. There are many monsters…

Purpose and Aspirations My initial and only purpose when I enrolled into the course was to be a more competent presenter in delivering business presentations, but little did I knew I will achieve so much more than this. In the first day of class, we were told to list down the characteristics of our ideal persona, a projection of our aspired self. When I was asked this question, only one person came to mind, Jenn Im, a YouTuber that creates her content around fashion and lifestyle. She has the…

Thrillers, fantasy, and horror genres offer its audience a glimpse into the dark unknown where monster and violence thrive. Why do audiences love to be scared? Can those monsters be stand ins for other real life monsters that we seek to fight against? Two movies which use monsters and violence to capture their audience and spread awareness of Spain’s historical past in connection to these topics are Tesis by Alejandro Amenábar and Pan’s Labyrinth by Gullermo del Toro. Tesis appears on the…

Fear’s Use. Fear is a primitive and basic emotion we all experience. The emotion that pulls forth from us dread, despair, anxiety, and a host of other negative feelings. Fear can push us forward or hold us back. Utilizing fear in writing does a couple things, like providing power, creating connections, and exploring the mind. Poe capitalizes on all of these topics. Poe has many fears and obsessions in his life. For his writings, he often recreates his anxieties. I think Poe uses fear because…

the ‘white is right’ thought, but I hazard to guess that it is a combination of fear and trepidation. As soon as we are born our perceptions are being formed by those we interact with. If we see those around us acting differently based on differences that another has then I perceive that to be true and right. It is as Susan Sontag said, “Fear binds people together” (Sontag, December 26, 2007) thus it is because of the fear of being isolated in courage that I feel a child chooses the ‘white…

She uses a variety of themes in order to understand this fear and how it influences our perception of death. One theme that the book mentions is the idea of a “good death”. One meaning of a good death that is mentioned within the book is a medical anthropological definition in which “there is an awareness, acceptance…

Revelation Countless of people have a constant fear of the limitations of life and not being able to reach their maximum potential because the thought of dying dictates them. And in John Keats’s English sonnet, When I Have Fears, he expresses the anxiety of not having time to reach the pinnacle of his writing career and not being able to experience love. However, Keats also remarks the human insignificance with time and it enables for him to cease from the fear that seems to have a grip on him…

Madness resides within each and every individual, it rests within the boundaries of one's morality waiting to be unleashed by traumatic events. When the human mind is consumed by madness the afflicted individual tarnishes their original morality and begins to embody the essence of the irreconcilable product of their sanity: otherwise known as insanity. As a result, those afflicted will begin to indulge in many acts that their former selves would consider to be taboo. The dormant thoughts that…

Death haunts us each living second. It is an unstoppable force whose thirst for life never runs out. When we are born into the world, the first thing we learn is fear. Life is the only tangible thing we have to hold on to, and when that is taken away, we are left with fear once again. These ideas are expressed in the two short stories “The Cold Equations” and “Hinterlands” which establish the basis for what it means to be sacrificed. William Gibson and Tom Godwin, in their respective short…