The Crucible
In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the idea of fear clouding the truth shines through in many instances. The witch trials in Salem are a prime example of how fear clouded opinion and ultimately from the truth. The judges and Reverend Parris use fear to control the people of the town.
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They convince them that they are witches by telling them that they are either to confess or to die. The people of the town, in fear of their lives, gave in to the fear and excepted the lies as truth only because their vision was clouded by fear. The Crucible is a great example of how fear hides the truth in its shadows.
The Village
The Village by M Night Shyamalan is another example of writing that displays how fear is used as a factor to cloud the truth. The town elders use the idea of the forrest and the
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unknown beyond the forrest to scare the people of the village. No body in the village dares to question the intent of "the creatures" that live in the forrest or if they exist. Fear shadows the truth and is used to control the village. The town lets their fear of the unknown overcome their search for the truth behind the village. They never discover the truth until one of the town members is told of the truth of the forrest and no longer has fear for "the creatures" of the forrest. Many times society will believe whatever they are told because they have fear in what they are told or fear the consequences of not believing what they are told.
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In The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells portrays the life of an African American male in the 1930's. He uses the term invisible to describe the mental state that unnamed main character is at. The main character in constantly being overlooked because he is an African American and therfore he struggles through the rest of his life. Fear plays a large roll in the main chracter's life as well. Through his whole life he is constantly being put down and being told that he was less human or of less quality because of the color of his skin. He goes through much persecution and although it seems that everyone he puts his trust in eventually breaks his trust and betrays him, but he does not let that fear stop him. He knows that if he gives into the fear he will only become more invisible than he already is. He does not let fear control as he seeks for the truth. In this world the truth is not always easy to come by.but the main character in this novel continues through his life searching to find his identity and his truth with no fear. He does not have fear and so his story shows his courage and braveness to go through life without fear even with what has happened to him.
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In this short story by Flannery O'Connor displays that many times fear of the future or the fear of what is new can lead to the destruction of many. The family in this story many times made statements about how they missed the old times and what they used to be. The father also shows signs of fear of the unknown or the new. He showed much hesitation in doing anything that was not in the plan or that of what was not know. The grandmother tries to use the fear of the Misfit to keep her son from going to Florida so she can go visit her friends in Tennessee. Fear drives this family into the ditch and because of giving in to the fear the family gets killed by the Misfit. The Misfit himself shows some signs of fear which are the reasons he does the awful things he does. The words the greandmother spoke to him at the end frightened him and caused him to kill her. Fear is a destructive force.
The Ministers Black Veil This short Gothic story by Nathaniel Hawthorne he displays that fear of the unknown can throw societies into a frenzy of confusion and dismay. As soon as the minister puts on his black veil the whole town goes into a deep state a fear trying to figure out why this is. The town allows fear to control them and so they start doing crazy things to try to figure out why the minster is wearing this veil. Many of the townspeople feel that the veil is a way of the minister showing that he town is sinful and he trying to represent to the town to repent. Fear drives the people mad trying to figure out why the minister is doing what he doing. The Minister talks to Elizabeth and gets into an argument of if he should take the veil off for the fear of what the towns people may think of him and what they may do. He tells her that he does not fear what the town thinks and continues to wear the veil because of sorrow for the sinful world he lives in. He does not let fear control him but the town does and therefore does not accept the truth behind his veil. Image Found on Google Image Search
The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald displays that not only does lying blacken the soul but fear does as well.
In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the idea of fear clouding the truth shines through in many instances. The witch trials in Salem are a prime example of how fear clouded opinion and ultimately from the truth. The judges and Reverend Parris use fear to control the people of the town.
The Village
The Village by M Night Shyamalan is another example of writing that displays how fear is used as a factor to cloud the truth. The town elders use the idea of the forrest and the
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The Invisible Man
In The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells portrays the life of an African American male in the 1930's. He uses the term invisible to describe the mental state that unnamed main c
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
In this short story by Flannery O'Connor displays that many times fear of the future or the fear of what is new can lead to the destruction of many. The family in this story many times made statements about how they missed the old times and what they used to be. The father also shows signs of fear of the unknown or the new. He showed much hesitation in doing anything that was not in the plan or that of what was not know. The grandmother tries to use the fear of the Misfit to keep her son from going to Florida so she can go visit her friends in Tennessee. Fear drives this family into the ditch and because of giving in to the fear the family gets killed by the Misfit. The Misfit himself shows some signs of fear which are the reasons he does the awful things he does. The words the greandmother spoke to him at the end frightened him and caused him to kill her. Fear is a destructive force.
The Ministers Black Veil
This short Gothic story by Nathaniel Hawthorne he displays that fear of the unknown can throw societies into a frenzy of confusion and dismay. As soon as
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The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald displays that not only does lying blacken the soul but fear does as well.