As we grew up, it all faded away. The monsters that they told us were real never existed. It was indeed a relief to know that; although, sometimes later I used to wish that had I known all this back then, I probably would have been the hero among my age fellows, famous by the name of 'the fearless kid.' However, the concept was there. It had always been there while growing up and leaving the innocence behind. The monster had not yet gone away. It had stayed. Inside each one of us.…
Considering that “Lord of the Flies” is evolving around the “Beast”, who is viewed as a monster or demon also on an unnamed deserted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean with the lost boys. Set in the near future, these adolescent striplings begin losing their way as human beings. With no mother figures to guide and comfort the boys, they are left with nothing except for each other and their wild imagination. The lost boys begin to establish within themselves an allusion of the “Beast”. The belief in the “Beast” only grows as they spend more and more time contemplating while stuck on the unknown island.…
imagination. Creatures were everywhere, “One frowning from a chair-back, another howling from my mother’s silent bureau, locked in the grain of maple, frozen in oak. I would see these presences, too, in a swirling pattern of wallpaper of in the various greens of a porcelain lamp, each looked so melancholy so damned, some peering out at me as if they knew all the secrets of a secretive boy.” (Collins 49) As a child, your imagination creates creatures out of everyday items. In reality, these creatures are just fragments of your imagination. Sometimes those imaginary creatures give you company but other times they frighten you. Children can’t distinguish between reality and imagination which frightens…
The psychology behind our fear of monsters is something Asma has been trying to understand for the better part of the last decade. In 2009, he published "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears" followed by "Monster on the Brain: An Epistemology of Horror" in 2014. Both articles dig deep into the psychology behind why monsters create fear. In 2017, a couple of months after the next installment of Hollywood's hit hybrid "Alien" and just two weeks before Halloween, Asma capitalized on kairos by writing his newest theories on monster hybrids in this Nautilus issue on monsters. As a rhetor, his purpose with this article is to convince horror fans that his epistemological approach has correctly answered the article's title "Why Are So Many Monsters Hybrids?" To prove his hypothesis true, he successfully incorporates the rhetoric techniques of reasoning, pathos, and identification.…
The true monster is a matter of perspective; human often feel threatened towards “monsters” because they think it might harm or even kill humans. This instinct is not just part of human nature, but it’s part of all creatures. Even animals have a sense of danger instinct that…
Jack said, "You Littluns started all this! With the fear talk. Beasts! Of course we’re frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened. Only Ralph says your scream in the night. What does that mean but nightmares? Anyway, you don’t hunt or build or help--you useless lot of cry babies! That’s what. And as for the fear-- you’ll have to put up with that like the rest of us." (Golding, pg 75) This depicts that when fear begins to build up inside of humans, humans begin to turn toward other people around them to take out the blame. It gives a view of how much hatred and selfishness man is capable of holding. Golding’s use of a beast to symbolize evil is extremely brilliant for the word "beast" itself connotes anything but the…
Similarly in Minecraft when people were out at night, and the more powerful of the groups thought that they were the beast or something that would harm them they killed them. They did not think to make sure that they were a human or a beast. This also shows the fear people had for the stronger group. They were also afraid of the unknown (the beast) and in Minecraft they had to beware of monsters and also the other people who were suppose to be helpful according to our society. This also shows that all humans have a dark…
situation. On the island people are very afraid of the “beast” that many have said they…
Only one man was able to conquer his fear , Edmond Dantes, the source of demise. Dante uses his past fear and morphs it into a tool of dominance. From Fernando to Villefort, fear went from a thought to reality and was the cause of destruction. Remember fear is always following its beholder no matter what. The past is never forgotten only repressed. So, face the obstacle now or it will be faced…
Have you ever been in a situation where you are tired, but you need to stay awake? Many people in this situation usually grab a can of Monster or maybe a Red Bull to keep them going. However, many people-a good majority are parents- say there are "dangerous side effects from consuming too many energy drinks at one time'' (Caffeine Informer). One study showed that between 2009 and 2011 there were 4854 calls to poison control centers involving energy drinks and 51% of these calls were involving children (Caffeine Informer).The truth is, they are not entirely correct.…
Humanity is a complex yet simple phenomenon. A group of species that accomplish so much and have some of the most complicated brains of evolution. That it’s hard to believe that there are situations and or circumstances they can’t handle. However, like any species even humankind can have defects and or errors that limit us as humanbeings. In the human brain, there is a gene that create fear called the Stathmin gene. Which usually benefits people when it comes to touching a stove, jumping off a building, and playing with fire. Fear often used correctly save people’s lives everyday. But what happens if these fears are irrational? Fears, that not only limit a person’s life but hurts them as well and acts as something that can even danger one’s…
This saying speaks true to me in that as a young child I remember being deathly scared of…
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.…
of the beast entered the minds of the young boys soon after Samneric informed them that they spotted the beast in the mountaintops. The internal fear of the beast lives inside each of the boys on the island, as displayed in the novel when Samneric mistake a dead parachutist for the beast, because of their instantaneous connection to fear at the sight of the beast, also known as "the creature of…
Everything and everyone on this planet has fears. It can be something as small as spiders, or something our imaginations conjure up, but then there is something bigger that we all dread. Some of us do not even admit it is there. Most will simply say it is a divine power that we are right to fear. Someday we shall find ourselves “looking into a vast mouth” scared out of our wits, we will see “blackness within, a blackness that spreads”(Golding 144). We will witness the horrid dark. This blackness is the night of the human soul, an unnatural, dark night. It engulfs us and figuratively follows us everywhere we go. Sometimes, it is like “You catch yourself feeling as if, there is something behind you all the time” (Golding 53). But it is truly inside, not behind. Even if you…