Can Kids Be Scared Straight

Jonathon Edwards maintains his audience’s attention by creating intense and meaningful similes. Edwards uses these similes as a way for his audience to understand the points he is making and adds dramatic imagery and piercing words to get the audience to consider what he is saying. The first simile he uses says this, “…they were always exposed to destruction; as one that stands or walks in slippery places is always exposed to fall” (Edwards 1). Edwards includes this quote in his sermon to provoke the readers thought. The point he is trying to make is that God’s people are exposed to destruction which is a hard to imagine so he breaks it down for his audience by saying that just as they are exposed to destruction if you walk in a slippery place you will also fall. The next memorable simile Edwards uses says this, “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire…” (6). Here Edwards compares his congregation to a “loathsome insect”. Edwards does this to try and describe how God views them. He continues his claim by comparing God’s wrath on them burning like fire, which would probably spark fear in the hearts of the people that they may repent. This simile helped further Edward’s main point, that hell is inevitable. One last simile Edwards uses is this, “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards

In our world fear roams everywhere. In our streets, businesses, schools, and homes. Fear has caused wars, and treaties. Fear can cause people to start something amazing or horrific. People can change because of fear of a thing.

Jonathan Edwards Sermon “ Sinners in the Hands of an angry god” contributed into the Great Awakening, showing that Hell was real, and whoever defied god was put down. Edwards used dark imagery to get his our heads, the meaning that everyone is predestined and anyone can be sent to hell. Edwards says in his sermon that “ God's enemies are easily broken into pieces, they are a heap of light chaff before the whirlwind”(2). Edwards hoped that the imagery and language of his sermon would awaken audiences to the horrific reality that he believed awaited them, should they continue life without their devotion to Christ? This made many people horrified and help start the great Awakening, making Christians more aware of the power of Christ, and increase their devotion to Christ.

In Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards delivers a powerful sermon to his congregation about the horrors of hell. Throughout the piece, the author explains there is no escape from “eternal destruction,” and one must join God to reach salvation (para. 27). Edwards uses dark, gruesome imagery along with gloomy diction in order to instill fear into the audience, and persuade them to more devoutly worship God.

In terms of the meth campaign’s commercials, an example of appeal to fear is an ad that focuses on a teenager named Kevin who tried meth for the first time and then proceeded to drop out of school, beat up his best friend, dig imaginary bug out of his skin, and end up in solitary confinement; all the while his friend did nothing to stop it because he was silent when Kevin stated that he was going to be

Fear is a natural human instinct, developed to keep people alive, but should a person let fear rule their life? Absolutely not. The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a popular story based in the early 1900’s, where the Baskerville family that lives on a moor in England is plagued by a legend of a hound, associated with the death of multiple Baskervilles throughout the story. Detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson is put up to the task of catching the hound while simultaneously protecting the new owner of Baskerville Hall, Sir Henry Baskerville, after the previous owner was supposedly murdered by the hound. Because of this, the story’s theme, don’t be ruled by fear, is developed throughout the story using the characters, solving the problem, and causing the issue.

In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, fear is being used in order to try and scare the reader into becoming a better person and religious.

Edwards' creative choice of words that he uses describes the power of God and the terrible Hell awaiting sinners. These words easily infiltrate into the minds of his congregation and frighten them beyond belief. These choices of words and his use of such vivid images are mostly successful in their intent, to scare and put fear into his audience. Edwards held his audience locked up with his promises of eternal damnation if proper steps were not taken. The congregation felt the intense impact of his rhetorical strategies and lived on the fear of the power of God. In this way, he was able to keep his followers from sin and away from the fiery pits of Hell.

Jonathan in his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (July 8, 1741), claims that the unconverted are hanging from the hands of God, and can be dropped off to the eternity of hell, his sermon is used to make the sinners be afraid and understand how the power of God is saving them, but it is only for his pleasure, unless if they return to Christianity. Edwards strengths his argument by using metaphors and imagery of a wrathful God to make the unconverted people afraid of being sinners and encourage them to have a relationship with Christ to be fully saved from falling to an eternity in the flames of hell. Edwards purpose is to start his sermon with such powerful use of visualization to provide fear to the sinners and give them a

One of the many effective uses of fear within propaganda was in the “Huns” piece of propaganda. This piece specifically puts this tactic to good use by putting the vision of a man with bloody hands and a bloody weapon into the heads of the people. This created a strong sense of fear and pushed people to buy war bonds in order to keep the Huns away.

Why would people let fear control them anyways? Actually, it depends on the person. If they are frightful, adventrous or whatever, it will take quite a bit more fear to scare them. If they are the type of people that stay in the house and never do anything besides that, they havent really had much experience so, they are bound to get frightened easily or faster.

Edwards is telling his congregation that it only by the grace of god that people are not suffer the eternal agony of hell. If people stay clear of any sins they may stay lifted by the hands of their merciful god. Many of early settlers of the new world came traveled seeking religious freedom and wanted to live a wholesome life under their vengeful but merciful god. People had be drawn to this because that what they wanted to here. They want reassurance that they are not sinning and they are safe from "lake of burning brimstone". In his sermon he illustrate how scary and dreadful hell. He says this hell is "dreadful pit of the glowing flames" and if you sin you'll be heavy as lead and it will weight you down close to hell. For the people at

Subsequently, fear can keep people from danger or threats. For instance, if a mother told their child not to put their hand on a hot stove and the child puts their hand on the stove, next time the child saw the stove their

How to use fear for good and turn it off when it is harmful is the question then. One could say that fear is just a state of mind and the owner of that fear has the power

When you are controlled by fear, you are more likely to do want others want you to do. In Animal Farm, the pigs threatened the rest of the animals