Essays about Fear

The Gift of Fear is built upon the surprisingly simple yet plausible premise that we can use our intuitions, specifically the emotion of fear, to reliably avoid and protect ourselves from violence. The book discusses in detail how one can recognize violent behavior, predict the risks at a given situation, as well as deal with…

Paralyzed by Fear In his book of short fiction, Dubliners, Joyce brings all his Dublin citizens/characters to paralysis in some form. Eveline’s fearful lack of will is her paralysis. Examples of her lack of will in come in four forms. Her lack of will finds comfort in dust. This lack of will won’t let the…

The Only Thing We Have To Fear is Fear Itself Have you ever paused for a second just to ask yourself, “What is fear? ” or, “What am I afraid of? ” Have you thought about it – your fears – and the reason behind them, or are they just “there”? The truth is everyone…

How many of you would consider yourself brave? Self Confident? “There are two types of speakers: Those that are nervous, and those that are liars. ” Mark Twain. Introduction Just imagine yourself being in front of thousands of people. Giving a presentation on how to live a better life, and a happier one. People are…

Critical Review Of “Fear and Loathing in New York-An impolite anecdote about the interface of homophobia and misogyny” written by Jennifer Doyle Rebecca Hicks I have chosen an essay on pages 15- 17 in “The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader” by the name of, “Fear and Loathing in New York-An impolite anecdote about the interface…

Eveline Life is all about choices. Some choices are easy and some require a lot of thought. In James Joyce’s short story “Eveline” we read about the life of a young woman named Eveline faced with a decision. To stay in familiarity of her current situation even though she endures a hard life, or pursue…

Sometimes it is the fear of what comes next, the fear of making a bad decision, the fear of emotions, the fear of a specific person and sometimes it is just the fear of rippling water from the nearby river that plagues a person the most. Great or small we are all haunted by someone…

    Alexander Pope, author of “Essay On Man’, said that “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”. Should this fool be considered courageous or reckless? The two words should be completely different by definition, but as it happens, both courage and recklessness can be described as an act performed with indifference to the danger…

Despite being 17 years old, I still have an apprehension of dangling my feet over the edge of the bed in darkness. The notion of hands with hairy knuckles grabbing my ankles and pulling me into a terrifying abyss always lingers in my thoughts. Although I don’t consciously consider this when my foot ventures beyond…

I’d like to say my childhood was perfect, but I’m not about to tell a lie. Some of it was good, some of it was bad, and this is sort of a situation that began badly did, ultimately, turn out all right. Back then, I was eight, and my brother was six, and all I…