In lord of the flies, I think the "beast" is just the children's self conscious and that they are scared and confused of the truth that they are lost and alone during a war. And that their plane may have been shot down and they may be being hunted by a military force. It is them finding a way to get control of their situation and still have someone superior to them and be able to give them rules and be able to give them rules and supervision and enforce the rules. Fear is a huge reason that they are making up the beast with because they are scared that they will not have anyone to control one of them if they go off on a rampage. The first ones to start to believe in the "beast" are the little ones because they still have the most imagination and are still scared of things like monsters and demons.…
Tobias MacIvey: Tobias MacIvey moved to Punta Rassa, Florida, from Georgia after the Civil War. He serves as the leader in this novel. He continues to raise his family down in Florida. His family goes through a rough patch and struggles, but then they become extremely successful from growing orange groves to sell and herding cattle. Tobias has an understanding and loving heart that goes out to people in need of work.…
One of the first examples of fear is when Jack does not respect Piggy, and he shows it through his words and actions. In chapter two some of the boys decided to start a fire so that maybe people on ships would notice them but, they had no way of starting the fire. Jack took it upon himself to snatch Piggy’s glasses off his face causing Piggy to panic and have blurred vision. Piggy thought the fire was a bad idea said to them ".......…
This introduction for “Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time,” by Ira Katznelson, was quite hard to read. Obviously it is from a scholarly written work, which would be the obvious reason for it being hard to read, but the subject matter was also pretty hard to understand and take in. The New Deal is absolutely a main point of this introduction and the book that follows. One can see that just from the title.…
The Red Scare was the result of a major fear within America. Americans felt the effects in their personal lives. Many supposed communists and communist sympathizers saw their whole life and their life works destroyed in front of their eyes such as the lost of friends or family members. It destroyed many families: brothers accused brothers, father accused sons. They were fired from their jobs.…
Where it is of utmost importance that a dispute be resolved for the benefit of those affected by it, the greater part of a society will resort to fighting; in this way, one of two general bodies may stand victorious. Such has always been the preferred method for solving a problem, and there can be a variety of reasons for an individual to feel inclined to fight. In S. E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, characters explore the reasons for which they fight, and their lives are altered by the fears derived from those reasons. According to the article “The (Only) Five Basic Fears That We Live By” by Karl Albrecht, all possible fears can be classified into one of five categories: Extinction, Mutilation, Loss of Autonomy, Separation, or Ego-death.…
16-year-old Tobias Eaton, as per his father, Marcus's instruction, picks the choices that lead him to pass for Abnegation during his Aptitude Test. His meeting with a factionless man who seems to know his deceased mother, however, startles his choice, especially when the abusive Marcus beats him for lying about a gift his mother gave to him. Tobias eventually chooses Dauntless on Choosing Day, shocking…
Fear is an emotion that brings a sense of unease to our world, whether it is the fear of an object or someone inflicting fear on someone. There can be different levels of fear that affect people. This is the emotion everyone has, no matter if they deny it, no one can be fearless. Throughout the years the common fears of people and the word its-self have evolved and will be a never ending cycle.…
In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Miller uses his writing to emphasize how people will manipulate fear in order to obtain power. Abigail Williams is a young girl who finds herself in a socially and sexually oppressive environment; she is on the low rung of society, because she is an orphan and is unmarried. After falling in love with an already married man she is even more powerless, because she cannot love him openly or even get him to acknowledge her. She sees this fear of witches and the devil, a constant in Salem, and uses it as support to get rid of Proctor’s wife. Abigail and the other girls know well that there were not any witches, clear from all their planted, false, and spectral evidence.…
The main character of the novel Four is Tobias Eaton, a Abnegation born but a Dauntless transit. He is nicknamed Four in the story because he only had four fears. Tobias was only sixteen when he made his life changing choice — to join the Dauntless. He was the son of a Abnegation leader and to escape the control of his father and to get his freedom he turned to the Dauntless. Tobias changed from a cowering, lanky, slouched, obedient stiff in Abnegation to a brave instructor of the transfer initiates in Dauntless.…
You hide behind your own shadow because you fear to speak, loving, trusting, and most of all you fear yourself. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, in a town of God fear strikes when a couple of young girls are discovered doing things they shouldn’t have been doing. They begin to blame others for there misbehaving. The people of Salem begin to go crazy, thinking its witchcraft, and almost kill off half their town. Abigail uses people’s fear of witchcraft and being accused of witchcraft as a way to gain control over the town.…
“Death is the cause or occasion of loss of life” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The majority of people fears death. Some are afraid of what is there after death; some are afraid of the act of dying itself. Even the most devout believer can fear death because it is more of a universal fear – one that is hardwired to our minds. Some say that this fear follows from the fear of life but that is not the only cause why most of us fear death so much as to affect our daily lives.…
Tobias’s dad tried to hit him with a belt in the simulation,but Tris was brave and took the hit. Tris will learn what real bravery is. Eric and Jeanine team up and inject a serum into all the Dauntless, but Tris is immune to the serum! Tris pretends to be in the simulation like all the Dauntless.…
Others fear to another's advantage in The Crucible. Fear is one of the leading reasons that influence people’s decisions in life. These fears were used as a bludgeon in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible. This weapon was used to manipulate others to get what they want.…
Fears are irrational, yet every human being has them. Fears are adaptive human responses, but when left untreated; those minor fears can turn into something unimaginable. These fears transform into exaggerated irrational fears which are known to be called phobias. There are now 600 recognized phobias by the medical profession and there’s more waiting to be discovered. Fears and phobias can be managed and cured.…