Fear

Fear

Fear. The dictionary defines fear as: a feeling of alarm of disquiet caused by the expectation of danger, pain, disaster, or the like; terror; dread; apprehension. But do you think that the feeling of fear can be defined? Think about it, when watching a scary movie, one may feel scared of uncomfortable, but fear? No, fear is a feeling one gets when a gun is pointed at their head or before going into an intense surgery. Here, I have three examples of fear through literature, art and music.
In Edgar Allen Poe’s, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, fear is one motif followed throughout the whole story. Fear is greatly showed in this story even before the reader is captured in the words. One passage on the fourth line shows this, ”I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded on my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment...