Fear

Fear and comfort are a valuable tool that all mankind use to determine what is safe or unsafe; while most people run from one, they seek serenity in the other. So, what initiates this response to fear and comfort, and how do we differentiate one from the other. In the short stories “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates, and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway; they offer a glimpse to what drives fear, and where comfort is found. While the two short stories…

Fear is a negative emotional response to threats in the environment (LaTour and Rotfield, 1997). Witte, K (1994) defined fear appeals as “persuasive messages that arouse fear by depicting a personally relevant and significant threat, followed by a description of feasible recommendations for deterring the threat” (Williams C, 2012). Fear appeals can be grouped into physical and social fear appeals, physical fear can be characterised by threats that may cause harm to the body and social fear…

Golding focuses on in his novel Lord of the Flies is fear. A group of boys is left on a deserted island after their plane has crashed due to the war. Although everything is fine at first, everything slowly goes downhill as they stop working together and start acting more on their fear. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies exemplifies the fact that fear is a natural response to the unknown and that it will unleash man’s worst qualities. Man’s fear is developed more and more as time goes on. The…

Is fear the best way to scare people out of doing something? It depends on what the case is and what you are trying to do, Are you trying to keep them away from something or bring them to something either way it about works the same. I feel that appeals to fear are the best way to keep someone from doing something. The first reason why I think appeals to fear are the best way to keep someone from doing something is makes them scared of the consequences. For example in the TV show Corcoran…

Fear is a classic human emotion, fear is an emotion that can cause people to do irrational things in order to escape the pain, in The Crucible, fear motivates the creation of lies leading the corruption of the highest form of government, causing outrage in the Puritan society. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams says, Now look you. All of you, we danced. And Tituba conjured Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a…

The Monistic Nature of Fear Fear is an emotion experienced in most all living creatures; this emotion is experienced precisely because it is a survival mechanism developed to protect an individual during dangerous or uncomfortable situations, combining physical and psychological aspects together in the uniformity of monism. Comparing studies between one concerning a lessened neurological processing of pain in fearful subjects that are administered light shocks and a separate study concerning…

Fear can be a strong motivator. It is one of the most effectual and common forms of motivation that have helped people to conquer and overcome struggles. Depicted in her latest best-seller, Room, Emma Donoghue tells an extraordinary story of Jack and his Ma and how they used their fear as motivation to liberate themselves from Room and re-adapt to the modern world. Ma was kidnapped at the young age of nineteen and was forced to endure imprisonment in a single room for seven years, but her…

“We do not fear the unknown. We fear what we project to the unknown,” quotes Teal Swan. As humans we fear the insecurity of our wellbeing which leads our imagination to envision the unknown as something fearful and threating. Human insecurity is no exception in the Gothic literature of Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Fall of the House of Usher, where the narrator witnesses the dissolution of his friend, his friend’s sister and of the siblings’ home. November 5th 2007, I was 6 at the time, and had been…

Fear. A four letter word that has enough meaning to potentially scar a person. Fear is known as an emotion caused by signals that are sent to the brain when one feels harmed or afraid. Enough fear can traumatize a person, causing them to miss out on many adventures in life. Some fears are caused by a total freak accident. That is how my fear developed. Being a cheerleader, tumbling is a big part of my lifestyle; or should I say was a big part of my lifestyle. This meant that we would have to…

What is fear? To my thinking, I believe that fear is the belief that someone or something is dangerous, or a threat to you. We all have fears. Whether it’s something simple or very terrifying. At of all my fears, I would say that my greatest fear is failure. This is not just plain failure, but it’s failing in life, like not having a career or not finishing college and ending up working a job for minimum wage for the rest of my life. No one wants that for their selves. Everyone wants to be…