Analysis Of Jennifer Mitchel Hecht's The Alchemist

In addition, fearing the experience of failure enables us to feel vulnerable but vulnerability is the birth place of innovation, creativity, and change. Failure takes a hold of most people but regularly do they see it as a chance to learn and react. They step aside from the lessons that they play and give up. But in The Alchemist “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” (Coelho 11)In the end he felt fully elated and feeling alive brings birth to his adventure and a path to succeeding his personal legend. In an interview with my uncle, German, he talks about the fear of failure but most of all what comes from the acceptance of fear. Born in Mexico, the expectations from his parents where diminished to what

Courage is categorized as a big act of heroism in face of danger, but no act of courage is too small or fruitless, but an act of courage is what helps the development of individuals and growth of society. In the American Scholar’s Article, To Live Is an Act of Courage, Jennifer Mitchel Hecht talks about suicide throughout history and the implications that come with the act, she refers to Greek mythology and follows with the philosophy of Seneca to then emphasize the suicide crisis in today’s military and how the act of living is courageous itself even though the idea seems minute it plays a critical point in our society. Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses make it harder for people to continue living, suicide has increased drastically throughout the twentieth century and we have seen this great fall through many heroes from military, celebrity, profession, and school suicides. Hecht quotes Seneca, a Roman philosopher, “I saw not my own courage in dying, but his courage broken by the loss of me. So I said to myself, ‘You must live.’ Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”(Seneca qtd. in Hecht) Noting that true courage comes from sparing ourselves in times of emotional agony. Sparing other people from a repeated mission of suicide, accomplishing courage by not succumbing to agony and therefore giving way for others to gain courage too. Unlike,

That Henrik Ibsen as a realist writer portrays Hedda as the epitome of a Victorian housewife restricted by Victorian values and confined into a loveless marriage, while being forced to watch as men take her life under their arm. However, Hedda Gabler continuously illustrates these psychological processes of fear and courage, she portrays herself fearless but not courageous, distinguishing the concept of a fearless person rather than someone who is courageous. While Hedda Gabler shows a cold-fearless exterior, she is in heart a coward as she lives through other people, instead of taking her own life into her hands. She hides behind her audacity and Ibsen notes “…Because I have such a dread of scandal. Yes, Hedda, you are a coward at heart. A terrible coward” (Ibsen 40).Her acts are determined by her own disposition as she believes she should be fearless, contaminated by her own criticism she find herself reluctant to believe that her life could change from mediocrity in a Victorian society. She titles herself fearless but by doing so she loses courage to face her repressed fears and takes no responsibility for something she believes she has no control over. Stanley J. Rachman’s Fear and Courage: A Psychological Perspective observes bomb-disposable operators long experience of fear when jumping as they move from courage to