Footstep

It is late at night, a person is walking alone, when he begins to hear footsteps approaching him. To delve into the emotion behind this situation there are many different theories that could help in explaining certain reactions, and their sources. Common wisdom might say that the average person would get scared and run away, but certain theories could prove otherwise. Theories such as James-Lange theory, Cannon-Bard theory, and Schacter-Singer theory provide an array of perspectives and ideas to…

Cities, he uses a variety of images to create and solve mysteries and to foreshadow future events in the novel. Three major images in the novel that recur over and over again are footsteps, recalled to life, and letters. Dickens uses the image of footsteps in various chapters of the novel. The first time the image of footsteps occurs is in Book 2, chapter 6 “Hundreds of People”. At the end of the chapter Lucie Manette,…

Footsteps or trails? Neither. Have you ever walked through a trail for the first time and felt the soft caressing breeze? Have you ever appreciated its surroundings, the soft round pebbles, dust, fallen leaves and branches - some dried and others fresh? Have you ever appreciated the old wrinkled trees bordering it and the ridged ground which marks those who walked down that trail before? Well, I have and still do. Ten years ago, on my way back home after running some errands, I walked through…

Tale of Two Cities One Pager: Echoing Footsteps In Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities, the passage in chapter twenty one plays an important part in book two because it shows how the violent revolution began in France and how that can end badly for Charles, Lucie and Dr.Manette in England. This passage finally leads up to the revolution that the Defarges and the Jaques have been planning for so long and also builds the suspense for what will happen if either of the three characters go back to…

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that” (A Testament of Hope, Martin Luther King Jr.). George Lucas is a filmmaker and entrepreneur best known for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. After reading Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Lucas wanted to write a story mixing mythology, science fiction, and archetypes. The trilogy begins in media res, following the story of Luke Skywalker, an orphan on the…

Whitechapel, at night, and with all that dreadful talk of Jack the Ripper and the Thames Embankment Murders as well... No. Alice bit her lip. Frightening herself would do her no good. She tried to clear her head, to focus on her breathing, on her footsteps, quieted by the snow. She had walked home through Whitechapel one hundred, two hundred times. And yet, tonight…

or so I thought. I had just woken up and was still lying in bed when I heard the sound of heavy footsteps. They weren’t normal footsteps though. They were heavier and louder, as if they weren’t human. I was frozen in fear and tried to process my thoughts to what I would do if the thing came to my room. The footsteps kept getting louder and louder. What should I do? The next thing I know the footsteps stopped. Everything in the house was silent. I gathered all the courage I had and decided to…

questioned himself on what this noise could be. Deep in his thoughts, he told himself over and over, it’s just the wind coming out of the chimney. There’s nothing to worry about. Out of nowhere the sound of footsteps began from the dark hallway right outside his room. Slow, purposeful footstep began edging towards his bedroom door. Poe panicking, he reached up to turn on the lamp he had sitting next to him. Not just an ordinary lamp though, a gas one which casted a flickering orange shadow…

Metaphors can be used to enhance one’s perception about an unknown topic. Metaphor contributes to the theme of revolution in A Tale of Two Cities by giving the reader a better understanding of the reality and violence of the revolution. The broken wine cask in book one chapter five is the first major extended metaphor describing the desperation for a revolution. In this chapter, a cask of wine is dropped and when it reached the ground “the hoops had burst and it [...] shattered like a…

sense of what is going on. The thoughts and physical arousal a person feels towards a stimulus is used to determine the emotion the person is feeling. The walking alone and hearing footsteps scenario can better explain the idea of this theory. When the person is walking alone at night and starts hearing the footsteps they will consciously interpret that this could dangerous. This paired with a physical arousal will tell the person that they are experiencing fear. In conclusion, there are many…