Fear Factor Journal
H. P. Lovecraft once said “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.” Everybody has or has dealt with some sort of fear in their life. For some, fear only manifests itself in some form of mild discomfort, but for others it can be so great that it creates an emotional vice-grip and holds it victim captive. I have my share of fears in life. One of these fears, which I have had since childhood, is my fear of supernatural and evil spirits. I am Christian and I believe in God, therefore I must also believe that there is a devil. As a Christian I am also aware of the contest between good and evil, so I am no doubt afraid of Satan and the infections of evil that he has brought to this earth. In the Bible it says that God allows Satan and his fallen angels a limited amount of power on earth. When I was younger I began hearing stories of people practicing witchcraft and worshipping Satan in a nearby town called Cassadaga, Florida. I was frightened at the thought of people that would deny God and follow Satan. This fear is commonly known by many as satanophobia. To confront this fear I must be prepared to possibly be in the presence of people that worship the dark prince and possibly demons or spirits.
One September day I decided to go out to Cassadaga and confront my fears of the stories that I had heard. I told myself that there should be no place where I may go that God will not be with me to protect me. With that in mind, I found the directions to this town of only 55 residences. I began driving and soon enough saw a sign that said “Cassadaga 1 mile”. Once I entered the city limits I realized that my surroundings looked like the setting of a modern day horror film. There were tall trees that were dead with no leaves, rundown houses, broken fences, dirt roads, and rotted wooden signs. The main road was paved and as I drove through the town I saw signs everywhere out front of houses that read “Spiritual Readings, Psychic Readings.” This didn’t really bother me, because I kept thinking of funny old people like Miss Cleo from paid programming on T.V. I decided to drive down some of the narrow dirt roads.
In every society, throughout all of time fear is present. It is a an evolutionary instinct thought to have kept us alive, throughout the darkest moments in human history. However as time has progressed fear has had an unintended consequences on society, including the suffusion of incomprehension. During the Salem Witch Trials and Cold War a large sense of fear overcame these societies causing tragedy and misinformation to become commonplace. It is in these societies that it is clear that fear is needed to continue a trend of ignorance. Although bias is thought to be essential to injustice, fear is crucial to the perpetuation of ignorance because it blinds reason, suppresses the truth and creates injustice.
In Rebecca cox, “The college fear Factor: How students and professors misunderstand one another”, in chapter two of her book she writes about an expression she calls “Total Fear Factor”. She has conducted this study between community colleges in diverse regions of the country and with a diverse range of students. Most of the students experienced fear and anxiety while being enrolled in college. High school for many students was far less complex and hurried and because of that, stress plays a huge roll in a college students educational achievement and goal outcome. The stress of once being in highschool to now being in college has a huge toll on a students well being. College is now more stressful and
In the introduction to “The College Fear Factor”, Rebecca Cox provides examples of how students can find difficulty in succeed in college due many factors like the gap of communication between the student and the teacher, the expectations the teacher has are different from the expectations of the student, how fear is the leading factor for a student to fail is fear itself.
It is Thea’s ‘don’t care’ attitude and the way in which everything always turns out fine for her that really gets to Hedda. In the beginning, Thea arrives at the Tesman’s house and explains how she ran away from her husband in pursuit of Løvborg. When asked what she thinks others will say, her reply is quick and to the point: “God knows they’ll say what they please” (240). Thea has found true love with Løvborg. Hedda, being terrified of scandal herself, can not bare the fact that Thea does not care what others say. Løvborg used to be her love and now Thea has won him over and made him better--Thea was the one that helped him recover from alcoholism. This is one of the catalysts that leads Hedda to explode in her revenge and commit a terrible act: burning the manuscript that Løvborg and Thea had worked on. Consumed with the evil deed, she exclaims, “Now I’m burning your child, Thea! You, with your curly hair! Your child and Eilert Løvborg’s. Now I’m burning--I’m burning the child” (288). Once again, her jealousy of Thea’s hair resurfaces. Yet, that is not all of what easily comes to Thea. She does not even try, but manages to somehow win over George’s mind with saving the manuscript. Thea’s influence is invisible, yet very potent, causing George to say, without thinking, that he will give up his whole life to rewrite that script (297). Therefore, Thea is unknowingly taking away two people
Hedda's use of her father's pistols symbolizes both her entrapment and release. On one hand the pistol she gives to Eilert ultimately finds Hedda in an "unthinkable scandal", which in its own way displays the added burden or control Judge Brack has over her now. The other pistol shapes her freedom by enabling her to make restitution to herself and forever be free. Her overall relationship with Thea is complicated by the fact that Hedda lacks Thea's courage to leave her husband and risk being cast out. Her marriage to ...
Hedda married Tesman, an academic student who supposed to have a potential success, not because she loves him, but just because as she said “It was a great deal more than any of my other admirers were offering”. In this quote she is showing her real feelings meaning that she never loves him and she just married him because he was the best option among the
Hedda is a product of the nineteenth century, when women were ordained to become either proper old maids (like George's aunts) or modest housekeepers (like Mrs. Elvsted), however Hedda is an anomaly. She has been raised by a dominating father and rebels against his leadership at the same time she revels in his power. General Gabler taught Hedda to ride and shoot, which symbolizes the origin of her attraction with the violent and the romantic, Hedda's intense preoccupation with pistols, her desire to have control over the fate of another individual and take part in the public life of men, her rejection of family life shown in her at times mal...
Everyone has faults, some people are greedy, some don’t know how to use manners, and others neglect a person’s feeling all together. Most of the time people just have one “fault” that they try to get better at. In Hedda’s case, she has all three problems but she encourages them instead of trying to learn to control them. In the play Hedda Gabler the author Henrik Ibsen shows that Hedda’s ill-behaved manners, greed for power and lack of emotional understanding of others will come back and bite her in the butt.
according to the plot of her own play. Hedda finds a “way out” after the internal conflict
The devil is a supernatural being thought of by society and Christians as an entity of pure evil. Although there is no hard evidence proving the existence of the devil, there are certainly plenty of testimonials of people who have claimed to see Hell. So let’s hypothetically say that the devil is real. If this were the case, then that would mean that the horrifying testimonials are actually true, which may lead one to wonder why people even call themselves a Satanist to begin with. Contrary to what one might think, Satanists do not believe that the devil is something of pure evil, nor do they view him as an actual person. Satanists view the devil as an actual deity or force that is to be worshipped and given complete allegiance to. Surprisingly, people started claiming to have sold their souls to the devil before the existence of the first satanic church. Anton LaVay first established “The Church of Satan April 30th, 1966”, but this isn’t where the idea of selling ones souls came from (Barton 1). It wasn’t until the Christopher Marlow’s play, The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus was performed that humanity was first introduced to the idea of selling their souls to the devil. Unfortunately, in the day and age we currently live in, many people interpret things in a very literal manner, which in turn can cause some of the horrifying, satanic events that we may hear about through the media. But in an attempt to assuage feelings of neglect, adolescents sometimes rebel and turn to faith as a source of comfort and stability when in essence a corrupt religion can become overpowering and controlling.
Death it is something we all must face at one point in our lives or another. It is either a death of a loved one, friend or co-worker. Sometimes it’s the devastation from a natural disaster. No matter what makes us face the idea of death it is how we handle this realization that truly matters. When Gilgamesh is faced with the horrendous loss of his dear friend and comrade Enkidu he begins to fear death. In Gilgamesh’s youth he is proud without fear of death, it is not until he watches his friend die that his own mortality becomes a fear.
Hedda comments, “I think I have a natural talent for boring myself to death.” She realizes that much of her boredom is self-inflicted, just like when she told Judge Brack that “as you make your bed so you must lie…”
Life is unpredictable and we are the one who make it. It is up to us if we want to have a good or bad life or just chose to end it. Hedda Gabler is a naturalism type of dramatic writing, written by Henrik Ibsen who narrates Hedda Gabler as a scandalous, coward, egotistical and a deceiving character who wants to have freedom to do something and achieve it. However, all the things that she wants to happened always failed. Starting from having an unwanted marriage with George out of sympathy;
Imagine going to bed one night and everything in your world is perfect and normal; you wake up the next morning and suddenly the world is horrible and everyone is getting sick and dying. How would you feel? That’s how Contagion is. When Mitch Emhoff’s wife comes from Hong Kong and she is very sick. She ends up dying within the first ten minutes of the movie. That’s what makes Contagion different than all of the other mass outbreak stories is that the main character is killed off within minutes. Contagion is a movie for the young and the old. It is the only movie out here that perfectly describes how the world would react to an outbreak of this kind. Contagion is an extraordinary film with a lovely plot, terrific acting and out of this world
Throughout the play, there is a feeling that the room gets darker and less lively with the piano removed as well. The play takes a turn to Hedda being more clear and intentional with her manipulations. She is very bored and irritated in her general life. Her obsessive nature to cause trouble and trying to control everything is evident very early on in the play. She starts out in a quite middle-class setting and seems very annoyed at Tesman, she does not want to be close to him, yet they just returned home from their honeymoon which is supposed to be the most romantic thing at the beginning of marriage, but hers seems just tolerable. She appears to enjoy the fact that Tesman gets worried about the competition with Lovborg, it appears to give her new “fun” activity in her life. There are parts of the play that lean towards Hedda seeming slightly hysterical or bipolar as she goes from being bored and calm to loading pistols as if it is not a big deal and then grasps Thea wildly announcing her expectations for Lovborg. She seems obsessed with trying to control those around her because she has no other “outlet” to her life. Physically, she is repelled by marital sex and, however, flirtatious with the Judge, frightened by extramarital affairs. Like so many women, she is left miserable among the