Essays on Fear

In the novella, ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens, the themes of fear and guilt are utilised to exhibit the development of the protagonist, Scrooge. Personal attributes such as cold-hearted and selfish prolong his distaste of Christmas which refers to the bourgeois in the eighteen-forties who were ignorant and treated the proletariat without respect. The...

Why, according to Hobbes, should subjects obey the Sovereign? Prima facie, the reason why subjects should obey the Sovereign according to Thomas Hobbes is a relatively simple one, for protection against their fellow man. Hobbes himself writes in Leviathan that without their Sovereign, the natural state of things is simply ‘warre of every one against...

How William Golding used Jack in “Lord of the Flies” as an object of fear and manipulation to take control on the island. Why would William Golding use Jack as that object of fear and manipulation? At the beginning of the story, we could identify how jack had a domineering personality and did not want...

Additionally, he illustrates how the initial illusory character of fear (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3, l.51–52: “why do you start, and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair?“) becomes consciously experienced reality (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3, l.139-140: “Present fears / Are less than horrible imaginings.“) which, through the overvalued conception of...

Along with his fear, his hope disappeared as well. What remains is despair, which Elizabethans defined as a sin against the Holy Spirit (Unterstenhöfer, p.171, l.1-4; p.194, l.17-19). Besides, Macbeth himself has, paradoxically, still not realized in act four, scene one that his fear evokes these diverse horror images – such as, for instance, the...

Yet ultimately, he has no other choice but to put a good face on the matter and to artificially motivate himself with predictions that appear like his grip for the last straw. By his own account, Macbeth is free of fear for the first time when he is already surrounded by the enemy forces and...

Neurobiological Considerations Anxiety disorders are characterized by disruptions in neurobiological functioning, specifically in neurotransmitter and neuroendocrine pathways, and neuroanatomical structures. The limbic system, which is the emotional-processing center of the brain, contains the hypothalamus, thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, basal ganglia, and cingulate gyrus (Martin et al., 2010). When a stressful event occurs, the cortex is activated...

William Golding once said, “We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.” This is explored in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. The novel begins after a plane transporting a group of school-aged boys crashes on an island leaving no adults. The boys start off civil and...

Introduction The fear of negative evaluation was first designed by Watson and Friend (1969) as the anxiety about the evaluations by others, being worried about the negative evaluations, and expecting that others will evaluate one in a negative way (Watson and Friend, 1969). Fear of negative evaluation also refers to worry of an individual in...