Fear In The Hound Of The Baskervilles

Fear is a common human emotion, but the way some people react is different than others. Although, it is harder on some humans unlike other people. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said,” Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” I think that means that fear harms more people than anything else does in the whole world. Also that people can scare themselves way easier than normal and it’s not healthy.

What is the driving force for humanity to form civilizations and live in homes? A protective structure from the wild? Human nature is a natural response to the fear that guides humanity to form the societies we see today. Fear can be defined as an emotional response to possibility of danger or being anxious. Thus, the fear of being unprotected from the weather, wild animals or insects, and people we are unfamiliar with has led societies to be built. In the Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls tells a different story of her untraditional upbringing. Jeannette Walls uses points in her life that express fear to pivot throughout the telling of her life story and keep the reader’s attention.

Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” in 1952 and about forty years later explained his purpose in an article titled “Why I Wrote the Crucible.” Miller expresses some of the emotions he went through as his book gained popularity saying, “I remember those years...but I have lost the dead weight of the fear I had then. Fear doesn't travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory's truth.” At first, he refers to fear as dead weight as if it was useless but still pulling him down but then he explains the importance of fear. He claimed that fear can warp our judgement which seems realistic because when people are in a situation the causes fear they are known to take out of the ordinary action. Miller also suggests that fear is a crucial part of our memory and without fear our memories can fade and the truth of the issue as well. Miller was likely fearful of the

Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a threat. Our own emotions, especially fear, make us do the things we never saw ourselves doing. In the play “The Crucible” many of the characters actions are driven by fear. President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. This emotion doesn’t have to control our actions.

The first way the theme don’t be ruled by fear is developed in the story, is through the characters. For example, in the beginning of the story, Sir Henry Baskerville says, “There is no devil in hell, Mr. Holmes, and there is no man upon earth who can prevent me from going to the home,” (50). In this quote, Sir Henry is showing the theme because he is not letting the legend of the hound scare him. For centuries, ever since Hugo Baskerville was first victim to the hound, the Baskervilles have lived in fear of it. So much so, that it caused the

What is the driving force for humanity to form civilizations and live in homes? Is it to have a protective structure from the wild? Why do humans act the way they do? Human nature is a natural response to the fear that guides humanity to form the societies we see today. Fear can be defined as an emotional response to possibility of being in danger or being anxious. Thus, the fear of being unprotected from the weather, wild animals or insects, and people we are unfamiliar with has led societies to be built. In the Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls tells a different story of her untraditional upbringing. Jeannette Walls uses events in her past that exemplify this fear to pivot the narrative and keep the reader’s attention.

Fear brings forth a certain atmosphere which compels us to act upon it. The era in which the book was published allows us to see how common these fears were. Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is an excellent portrayal of how fear controls the human mind by using the characters as examples. In the book Eleanor, Theodora, Luke, and Dr. Montague have all been influenced by fear in the story, whether it be the fear of love, the unknown, family, rejection, expression, or loneliness. These different types of fear plagued their minds, causing their actions to reflect upon them. Jackson explores the theme of fear in The Haunting of Hill House by creating a cast of characters that in turn are manipulated by the inner workings of their minds and the malevolent manifestations of Hill House.

The book and movie Jumanji is fearful. The tone of the movie is fearful. Three reasons why the book,and the movie is fearful because a lion appears and starts growling and scares everyone,and then monkeys appear and start destroying the kitchen,and Rhinos stampede through the room and scares everyone. First,something that happened in the movie that was fearful was Allen got sucked into the gameboard.

In 1953, the fear of communists infiltrating America caused a nationwide panic. The nation began a witch hunt lead by Senator Joseph McCarthy to find these supposed communists. The government targeted anyone and everyone, especially if they voiced opposition to the trials. Suspects threw friends, acquaintances, and enemies under the bus to escape persecution. In response to this bout of unjust trials, Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, a book about the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, which later became a movie 1996.

Over the course of Tom Robinson’s trial, Mayella’s state of mind shifts from anxious and nervous to distress and panic due the aspects of guilt and fear. When Mayella is called to the witness stand, and asked to provide her testimony, she is very uneasy, uncertain and hesitant towards her claims. As the questions grow more specific and complex, Mayella has a difficult time answering and struggles with providing the truth.

As time passes on, people in society become accustomed to the daily routines of life. Eventually, what others once wanted to pursue become their own fears. Fear begins to control people on what they should and shouldn't do, and without knowing, they become slaves to fear. In The Alchemist, Santiago speaks to the merchant about his dream of traveling to the pyramids, and the merchant replies back with his dream of wanting to go to Mecca. The merchant states that he fears living his dream because then he would no longer have anything to dream for, and because of that, he won't go to Mecca. The merchant continues to live his normal life, and he misses the opportunity of a lifetime that other Muslim families have achieved due to his fear of

In The Gendarme Emmett has recurring nightmares. Every night haunted by the faces of the people who hated him most. One night, in his dreams, he remembers one of his fellow Gendarmes ‘Mustafa’, “[t]hat night, Mustafa tries to kill me”(Mustian 100). This recurring fear that Emmett has, this constant reliving of past encounters shows how much war and being a Gendarme affects him. Every night he dreams of the horrors that happen throughout the war. As well, he dreams of love, he dreams of meeting Araxie, the woman he ends up falling in love with. Their moments together, “Araxie laughs and wrinkles her nose. We sit under a bridge, in the cool shade of a hot afternoon. She looks better, healthier, the lines of worry and illness erased from her forehead”

The supernatural hound and the moor from the Baskerville legend reveal the reason for Sir Charles’ fear. When Dr. Mortimer, Sir Charles’ doctor, came to meet with Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson about Sir Charles’ recent death, he told them about the Baskerville legend and that “the idea of some ghastly presence constantly haunted him,” (24). The “ghastly presence” mentioned here is none other than the hound, and Sir Charles was constantly in fear of it. All Sir Charles thought about was the supernatural, beastly creature. After analyzing all of the facts about Sir Charles’ death, Holmes stated that his fears

Dracula: Productive Fear The ‘anxieties of empire’ depicted within Bram Stoker’s Dracula have gathered immense criticism and attention from enthusiasts and scholars. The publication of Stoker’s novel in 1897 was in a period experiencing heightened nationalism together with imperial decadence. Friedrich Kittler claims that Jonathan Harker, the English solicitor visiting Count Dracula, was an imperial spy (Kittler, 60). Patrick Brantlinger fruitfully identifies the novel as ‘a piece of imperial Gothicism’.

In the book The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are helping Sir Henry Baskerville. There will be lots of fears and they will solve the mystery of the ghastly hound that has terrorized the Baskervilles for years. Throughout Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, the book develops the theme “don’t be ruled by fear,” by showing that the people fear the Hound of the Baskervilles and the dangers on the moor.