Fears Are Not Forever

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Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated, “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” The bully that we face in our world today is all of the things that we feel will bring us down and prevent us from achieving our desires. Upon watching the movie Extraterrestrial or E.T. it is evident that from the time in which the world was now discovering aliens until the status quo, there have been changes in what we fear. In the current society there are many things that are now found acceptable, that in previous years may not have been acceptable, which exemplifies the inherent changes that can occur in society. Among these changes are the definitive changes in our current fears. In order to understand how fears truly evolved there must be analysis of the fears shown in E.T. and how they have changed into modernized fears. Then there will be an epexegesis of the reasons why fears themselves can change through social norms.
There were multiple fears shown by the movie E.T. Among them are the fears of acceptance of the things beyond human comprehension, the fear of being different and finally the fear of doing what you believe is right when those around you say that what you believe in is wrong. The main characters explicated these fears as they discovered an extraterrestrial and from at first being scared of it, they had reduced their fears as they began to understand and connect with the creature. This exemplifies the idea that fears can change and that they don’t always exist forever. While, some fears may be perpetuated many of them lose their hold on people a...

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