Fear
An aversion to a person, place, activity, event, or object that causes emotional distress and often avoidance behavior.
Fear is defined as emotional reaction related to a person, place, activity,...
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Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945.Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicu&ntild...
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Gabriela Mistral, literary pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was the first Spanish American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature; as such, she will always be seen as a representative figu...
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In the following essay which was originally published in La Revue Mondiale in 1927, de Lorde broadly surveys fear in literature from the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century to dystopian visions in...
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In the following essay, Hutton calls attention to Hamlet's last soliloquy in a discussion of Hamlet's changing attitude toward death.
The soliloquy that Hamlet pours forth in response...
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In the following essay, Spacks traces the personification of the supernatural in English poetry of the late eighteenth century and its influence on the presentation of supernatural entities in poetry ...
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In the following essay, Badenhausen focuses on "The Black Cat" to illustrate Poe's skill in eliciting a fearful, emotional response from the reader.
In an important article pub...
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In the following essay, Starr draws parallels between the responses to fear by protagonists in Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel" and The Red Badge of Courage and Richard Wright...
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In the following essay, Fowler traces aesthetic conditions for the enjoyment of horror in literature and film, including an undisclosed source of terror, the physical confinement of the protagonist, a...
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In the following essay, Eickhorst surveys fear in German literature from the thirteenth century to the mid-1960s, highlighting works by Johann von Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rainer Maria Ri...
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In the following essay, Walcutt describes interwar literature as characterized by guilt following World War I, fear during the 1930s, and confrontation during the early years of World War II.
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In the following essay, Merivale focuses on "Gothic pedagogy," or learning by fear.
A series of works—from Mozart's The Magic Flute (1791) through Goethe's Faust ...
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In the following essay, Slote uses concepts developed in the writings of Blaise Pascal, S0ren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Jean Paul Sartre to explain how the fear of death accounts for many asp...
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In the following essay, Hatcher discusses Chaucer's realistic presentation of Troilus's anxiety over Criseyde's infidelity in Book V of Troilus and Criseyde through comparison wit...
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Overcoming Fear
My eyes flew open and immediately began darting about my dark room. I slowly sat up, trying to calm my erratic breathing. I attempted to collect my thoughts, but the second my eyes h...
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"Being frightened is an experience you can't buy." We are a society that adores fear. We thrive off of it; creating horror movies, shows like "Fear Factor", and the media in general are only a few ...
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Fear
Fear is the sweat dripping down your face as you walk along through the woods. Fear is the anxiety of waiting for your report card, so you can grab it first rather then your parents. Fear is a...
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FEELINGS OF FEAR AND INADEQUACY IN THE STRUGGLE to make it in life often stem from events in our childhood and adolescence that subconsciously change how we react to high-stress situations. For me,...
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Air Security: We've urged Congress to pass a law that protects airlines that kick suspicious passengers off planes from being sued. The House of Representatives has passed legislation that's about ...
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A few days before the publication of The Sex Doctors in the Basement, Molly Jong-Fast's rambling, name-dropping, half-crazy but very funny memoir, the 26-year-old writer met The Transom for sushi o...
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has limited his public appearances because he fears being targeted for assassination by Israel, his spokesman said Tuesday."He is frightened by the Israeli...
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What could be more French than cognac?Its grapes come from a strictly marked-off region of western France, and French rules govern how it is distilled, aged and labeled.Yet the distillation process...
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The curtains are drawn shut. Security guards are on constant watch, pacing the hallways and searching visitors. Bomb detectors, police armored vehicles and checkpoints monitor traffic outside. The ...
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After more than a decade in refugee camps, Jean Kayobera was ready to come home.He longed to see his house, although he heard it had been taken over by another family during the Central African nat...
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The niece of an Australian captain whose yacht was found drifting off the Great Barrier Reef said Tuesday she believes he and his crew may have been kidnapped. Police maintain they probably drowned...
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