The Theme Of Fear In The Garden Of Beast

Fearing states “If you’ve ever been a figure in the chamber of horrors, if you’ve ever escaped from a psychiatric ward, if you thrill at the thought of throwing poison into wells, have heavenly visions of people, by the thousands, dying in flames - you are the very man we want.” (896). This description not only shows Fearing’s use of diction, it also shows his use of imagery. The depiction of a chamber of horrors relates to the concentration camps used in World War 2, as people were often killed using gas chambers. Fearing attempts here to paint a picture of the petrifying death of innocents that World War 2, and other wars, had.

The Only Thing To Fear takes place in a world in which Hitler and the nazis won WWII. America was divided by the Axis powers: Germany in the east, italy in the Dakotas, and Japan in the West. The main character, Zara St. James is 16 and lives with her uncle on a small farm in the Eastern American territories, under rule by the nazis. Zara is half-Japanese and is looked down upon by many for her lineage.

In the Garden of Beasts is an important historical book with lots of good information, but can be difficult to understand while reading. In the video Erik Larson, the author, helped answer many of my questions. One of these important questions was how he came up with the idea to write his book about this topic. Another important topic covered was Hitler’s rise to power, and the means he used to keep control of Germany. Larson also discussed how Dodd had connections that made him a candidate for the job of ambassador and the process that happened for him to get his job in Berlin. This video gives a great insight to what the author meant to convey through the book that may not have been easy to pick up on while reading this book.

Soon, people around the world saw Hitler as a substantial menace as well as a vicious monster, however, people of Germany looked up to him and didn’t want to disappoint him, which made them work even harder and smarter. The terror of disappointment, loneliness, tragedy, and loss clouded their judgement. However, the most important part of this reading was the horror of what would happen if you’d get caught listening to the radio or sending something that shouldn’t be sent. All of the characters in this novel have changed for the better or worse. Fear changes people, and it significantly changed the characters in this

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.

Fear and terror plays an important role in Hitler’s road to gaining power. He used fear to gain complete control over citizens or people who were against him. The German police were given complete control so that they could arrest or imprison someone for no reason at all. People also feared Hitler’s personal army, the S.S very much because they could

Within Germany, a country torn between the rise of a totalitarian party that determined a superior race, Nazism, and the survival of the oppressed, young Germans face a test between a sense of self and society. Individuality would be suppressed within this new type of society, and being different would be the deadliest obstruction to life. The violations of the rights to life, religion, and speech are relived through the stories of the German youth that lived through this haunting time, whose name would be tarnished in their struggle to survive. In their fight, their morals would be challenged and influenced until the Nazi regime ended, and the violation of human dignity would leave them wondering if life was worth living after all. The Nazi Party grew under its leader, Adolf Hitler, which struggled not to use violence against those that disagreed with their views, starting with armed groups known as the Strum Abteilung, who pledged to be ready to sacrifice their life in the aims of the Nazi Party and absolute loyalty to their leader. Their cruel intolerance began by their strong nationalism and their hatred of democracy and communism, and they gained power through the economic depressions around the world, controlling the media by instilling fear and propaganda that influenced a strong belief in their leaders. This belief in the leaders would soon seem to override Church influence when the official body of the Church failed to do anything significant

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.

Larson, Erik. In the garden of beasts: love, terror, and an American family in Hitlers Berlin. 375 pages. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2011.

As the citizens of Germany endorsed Hitler’s new cutting-edge ideas, they gained enthusiasm and determination to regain their power. Germany came to the conclusion that war was the only solution to their problem when Hitler wrote, “No nation can remove this hand from its throat except by the sword” (Document A). These words reveal that Hitler’s thoughts and opinions affected those around him. By saying this, he suggested that he understood what Germany wanted and knew that they wouldn’t get it unless they followed his methods. People who read what Hitler wrote were hugely impacted by it, so much so that they began to think with their emotions instead of their heads.

The Holocaust is history’s most painful example of mass-hysteria. With half a race violently extinguished, Nazi Germany deliberately and horribly massacred millions and millions of Jews. The people of Germany were in an economic and social state of disparity, open to all options of self-sustainment. Living in depression made Germans vulnerable to Hitler and his Nazis. When presented with a solution to their hunger and struggle, they were eager at the opportunity to thrive at the expense of Jews. Like Abigail and her friends, the Germans were faced in a situation of ‘kill or be killed’. They had the option of personal consequence verses succeeding through blame and violence. Germany’s acts sent the whole world into chaos and sent several large countries to war into a hysteria Hitler not only supported but encouraged.

Sometimes fear can be shown through external things, or sometimes, fear can lie internally. The Lord of the Flies was a twisted situation that shows what can happen to a group of unattended boys that are left to fend for themselves on a stranded island. They begin to develop a fear of the “beast”, which is what they think is the monster of the island. From an outsiders perspective, “the beast” could be perceived as the fear of an actual “monster-like” beast, the hypocrisy of war, or the evil that lies within us.

In 1965, Jerzy Kosinski wrote his controversial novel “The Painted Bird”, which tells the story of a young six year old unnamed boy’s journey to survive during the violence and horrors of World War II. Kosinski shows readers how war can change people, as well as how barbaric human beings can act during wartime. During this time the Nazi sentiment was spreading like wildfire throughout central Europe. Hitler took great measures to ensure that Nazi’s remained in control by using cruelty and violence in creating fear and terror. Those living in Europe were far too scared to go against the Nazis’. The Jewish were not the only enemies of the Germans “Gypsies followed close behind... having no place in Adolf Hitler’s ideal of a racially pure

In the adventure, The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, along with Dr. Watson team up with the worrisome people of Dartmoor to find a murderer, fight against horror, along with the supernatural. Throughout the journey, Doyle proposes how fear can curb your life, or furthermore, cause it to end. Ensuing next in the genesis of the novel, Doyle introduces the story of how Sir Charles Baskerville was literally startled to death, ‘“He was so convinced that a dreadful fate overhung his family…”’ (14), to the point that he was so afraid of the hound that he would make arrangements to prevent going near the moor at night. Likewise, he avoided having a wife and children consequently because he didn’t want anyone to get hurt or cause any more mayhem in the Baskerville family.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tells the tale of the fabled hound that haunts the Baskerville family. Throughout the novel, the author forms the theme of not being ruled by fear, by the characters dealing with, unexplained deaths, strange sounds, and the existence of the hound.