The Lurking Fear

Once stated by a Japanese Proverb, “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” That you are only as scared as you allow yourself to become.Thinking back as a child, nearly everyone was scared of some form of monster. Whether it was a ghost, creature living under your bed, or just the thought that there could be something out lurking in the unknown, the idea of it sat in the back of the mind, causing fear in the beholder. Although it is most likely not real, this uncertainty can change the way…

Kitchener Huffaker English 4 1 December 2017 Fear Keeps You Alive Fear is something everyone experiences at least one point in their life. Whether someone’s fear is of public speaking, spiders, or the dark, it is all natural. The shaking, sick to your stomach feeling is often regarded as uncomfortable to many people. However, fear can also prevent people from getting seriously injured. The general uncomfortable feeling could actually be beneficial. Fear is not always a harmful emotion because…

falls off of a nose and into a world full of terror and evil. Yes, there are good feelings and pleasurable moments of life as well, but fear will never be forgotten; fear can never go away. The moments that people relive in every dream, the image lurking in every dark room, the face that appears every time one closes his or her eyes, that is the type of traumatizing fear that will never disappear. What is so attractive about this horror? Why do we feast on the releases of new monster phenomena…

instrument. She barely misses the nail from penetrating her foot but because of the camera zooming into the camera and rotating over her foot and the nail makes the audience uneasy. Instead of presenting sudden fear through pop-scare, the film decided to generate a new definition of fear of paranoia. Usually the audience has a stereotypical thought coming into the movie theater, thinking the film will be a pop-scare with a terrible plot. However, having a psychological and gory plot suggests a…

murals of men in battle, clad only in a shield, and of women telling stories to their children with a mere blanket over their most private areas, yet these were not sexual in the least. This is why I believe that the fear that created Sirens must be more than something stemming from a fear of free…

Monster the Creation of our Wild Imaginations Are monsters a reflection of our fears or a way to escape the harsh truth about reality into the wild side of our minds? In today’s society monsters play a big role in our lives, we see monsters in movies, shows and stories that people tell us. Monsters are a reflection of our fears, the creativity of our minds and the believes of our cultures. Some of these monsters fascinate people because of their abilities and their way of living. A monster is…

Fear is an emotion that we often can’t control and it has a certain power that dominates us in many situations. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of young boys are stranded on an island and this fear that they have of their unknown environment establishes many problems. It is the only thing that blinds the boys from acting rationally at times, questioning certain circumstances, and it causes them to act out in many brutal ways. Golding uses fear to convey the ideas and imagery of…

Northern Kentuckian area, but also throughout the world. In this project, I will hopefully come to a conclusion on why people generally fear spiders, which is an actual diagnosis called Arachnophobia. Spiders are in the arachnid class, which is the reason the condition is called Arachnophobia. Arachnophobia is usually defined as an abnormal or pathological fear of spiders. To start out, you have to understand some basic information about spiders. There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders…

Caitlin Antonoff Ms. Beggs ENG1D0 May 5th, 2017 Life is All about Helping Others Life is complicated, painful, confusing, and amazing all at the same time. People will spend all of their lives trying to make themselves believe that they have lived their lives to the fullest. These people have seemingly perfected a method to get this sense of fulfillment in life. They believe that a person’s life will feel more accomplished if they have performed some kind of service for someone else. In the…

is exposed to possible scrutiny by other people, which create fear or anxiety regarding a social situation. It includes social situations such as meeting unfamiliar people, having a conversation, performing in front of other people and being observed. If the individual is a child, the anxiety does not only occur when they meet adults, but also when they meet their peers (Autism Speaks, n.d.). Among the fears of the individual is the fear that they will act in a way that may expose their anxiety…