Horror and terror

Throughout life people fear, whether it’s something ridiculous like bugs or something immense like death. But what if what is actually feared by people is what needs love the most? According to a quote from Rainer Maria Rilke, “Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love.”, normal everyday fears and life's more inevitable fears are just the things that need love the most. Similarly, Grant Wiggins in the novel A Lesson Before Dying and…

When people are afraid, their very first instinct is to protect themselves over others; as a result, human relationships are weakened. David Creato Jr.’s murder of his son and the novel 1984 exemplify that human relationships are weak when it comes to fear. David Creato’s killing of his three-year-old son for his girlfriend depicts that an individual’s fear dominates relationships. In August 2017, New Jersey man David Creato Jr. pleaded guilty to suffocating three-year-old Brendan, because he…

Fear may make people imagine things that are really not there. This is a story that is called ‘The Elevator’ which William Sleator , the author, creates suspense in the story. It’s about a boy named Martin , which fears elevators. When Martin gets on the elevator from where he lives there’s always a fat lady that gets on the elevator at the same time as he does ,so Martin thought that was strange and he started to get scared, especially because he feared elevators. William Sleator creates…

According to the text fear affects people's behavior in a way so they don’t think or act their right mind. Just think about a movie like “The Last Decent” the guy who gets trapped starts to freak out and thrashes. I believe he did this out of fear. Everybody big or small when they are really scared they freak out and don’t think right. For example, the people in “Monsters are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Sterling start to harass people on their own street, because of fear, I believe when people…

As children, we are all afraid of something. It may be bugs, clowns, or even the dentist. Walking into an unfamiliar place knowing that they are going to be moving tools around the inside of your mouth with you virtually having no control of. Those tools that make loud humming noises and can drill into your teeth or the side of your cheek with one mistaken shake of the head or twitch of the arm. As children we develop this fear that carries over into our older years. We stop visiting the…

notorious Goosebumps series. I loved them more than anything, so much so that I owned every issue, including the special edition build-your-own story lines. R. L. Stine was the best author to ever live and will never be surpassed by another. They were horror stories and when I read the them I thought I was facing my fears and coping with them. But as the ears drug on my mother noticed I was using time to avoid any type of change in my life. Now my mother is a forceful woman, I dont remember…

create unity amongst the genre to instil the emotions of fear, horror and suspense. The ways in which The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Woman in Black directed by James Watkins portray the themes of isolation and madness through elements such as context, symbolism and tone. How each text presents these themes is integral to the diverse perspectives which make Gothic literature popular. The emotions of fear, horror and suspense emitted by isolation are achieved using…

Monsters historically have been used as scapegoats during times of fear. While in modern times their purpose is to entertain the public by giving them a false illusion of fear in forms like cinema, stories and gaming. Monsters play a large role in the horror genre with movies like World War Z, Alien vs Predator and Jaws. Monsters are iconic now and aren’t seen as something that you fear regularly but as fictional characters that are used to create a false atmosphere of fear for a short…

snake without flinching, climb to the tops of tall buildings, and sleep with the lights off after a scary movie. Yet, there was one thing that at the ripe young age of thirteen absolutely terrified me, and that was airplanes. As a child I heard many horror stories of catastrophic plane hijackings and crashes. It scared me to think that so many things could go wrong. The weather could be bad, the plane could be damaged, or something awful might happen to the pilot. Thinking of these things would…

What is fear? Well, fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, and is likely to cause pain or a threat. there are many references to fear then what is written out on the pages, for instance, a lot of people have fears of being alone and lost and in this case book its just that which happens but everyone handles their fears differently whether it secretive or in front of everyone some examples are the main characters of the book Lord of the flies…