The Lurking Fear

It was like an angel and a devil meet and battle inside my brain. “Don’t try to change yourself, you will look like a fool. Stay still and everything will be fine,” said the demon, his voice was shaking, full of fear. “Hey! Don’t be afraid to change just because you are scared that you might fail. Everyone fails! Just put yourself out there and you will succeed,” angel spoke softly, like a mother. “Don’t trust her! Look, Han, it’s going to be painful. Don’t take…

that provoke fear in the audience. Conflict is when there are two or more forces opposing each other. Tension, or the rising action, can be defined as the building of the established conflict until it reaches the climax then resolution. The climax is when the opposing forces resolve their conflict. The resolution of a story is when order is restored and the outcome of the conflict and climax is made apparent. An example of a horror story that uses conflict and tension to generate fear is “The…

It is very hard to predict what will happen in our life as everything can change in the matter of second. However, during the life, there are some certainties that should be faced by humankind; one of it is death. Death is inevitable and universal as everyone will experience it in a certain period of time. However, even though it is considered as one of the milestones in our life, death is not something that can be taken and discussed easily in the society, especially when we looking at death’s…

do monsters, and the 1930s have in common? Fear. Fear is an unpleasant motion that can be caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous or evil. Film makers and story tellers, during times of great fear, love to introduce that certain fear into their ideas to make the movie and/or book even scarier. Fear has changed over many decades. For example, in today’s current, film World War Z depicts a virus that makes humans into monsters. This fear is that viruses will lead to the…

Fear is often referred to as one of the most primal emotions there is and through time fear has been used in a number of different ways for a number of different reasons. Fear can be seen in early and current literature. Fear can be observable in all living creatures and is experienced differently in each, making it an extremely subjective emotion, hence there are millions of different uses of fears, Things identified that induce fear and portals of fear around the world. Fear can be…

family about what you faced, in my case the challenge I faced changed the way I think about beautiful things, and about my life. How can something so beautiful be so treacherous? I was so happy enjoying my day, but within seconds…pure joy turned into fear. It was a beautiful day spent at schliterbahn, but hours being in the same placed bored me. I asked my brother for permission to go to the island, since it meant just crossing the bridge and there it was. My brother said no, but I refused to…

Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket and High and Dizzy, both characters are faced with deadly situations and begin them with feelings of confidence, which later turn into terror. In my own life, I have also experienced confidence and the drastic change of fear within a single situation. Tom Benecke of Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket and Harold Lloyd of High and Dizzy both experience feelings of confidence and then petrification when they hang onto their ledges. In the early stages of their…

As a child, everything in the world seems so clearly black and white. It seems like everyone just naturally gets older, goes to college because they have to, and work wherever they and up. Then I myself got older and started to question: But why do I need to go to college? What’s so great about it? It got worse when I went along and realized that I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, had no idea what I even wanted to go to college for. This then resulted in years of me being anxious,…

Everyone is destined to die someday, whether it’s sooner or later than others. Even though some people die sooner than others, it was meant to be that way for a reason and vice versa. When you personally experience the death of a friend, pet, or loved one, it can be difficult to accept the fact that they’re gone. Some people who can’t cope well with death will go to drastic measures, such as taking their own life. Death, for many people, is a hard and scary idea to think about. Most people wish…

The princess laid unconscious on the hard cavern floor. Her dragon also laid beside her with his face locked into a snarl, his fists clenched. At the mouth of the cave, rain drizzled down, slowly becoming lighter. Iron Helm heaved a sigh of exhausted relief. Carrying an Alicorn plus a baby dragon out of Ponyville into the mountain side was not part of his plan. The dragon would have to be a necessary setback. The dragon had seen too much. His earth pony muscles ached from the large load he…