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The Crucible Essay About Fear

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Fear is a powerful emotion which causes individuals to act and react in concerning or reckless manners that could lead to hurting others.These reckless manners may be made as an attempt to protect or save themselves. Although fear is seen by many people as a rush of excitement, there are more people who react to fear in not so positive manners. Fear is an emotion that can break you physically and mentally depending on how it was brought up to you. “consequences of long-term fear include fatigue, clinical depression, and PTSD”. ( “ Impact of Fear and Anxiety”) When a person scares you or forces fear on you it will make you feel like you have no control and can make you depressed or later leave you with PTSD. Furthermore, when people are scared and feel like they'll get punished for something they start to do anything they can to get rid of it …show more content…

Abigail is scared that she is gonna be whipped to death or punished for something she didn't do so she starts saying names to save herself ; she gives them Tibia's name . People will do crazy things to save themselves from the unknown. “You have confessed yourself to witchcraft,and that speaks a wish to come to heavens side.and we will bless you tibia”.(Miller 43) (“The Crucible a Play in Four Acts” )Tubuia is scared that she is gonna be murdered so she gives up the devil and tells them that she wants help so she doesn't get punished. Lastly, many people don't know what to do when we come across the bad types of fear. In this source, the author is talking about how fear is used to scare us and make us do crazy things to save us and stop the fear.(“Conquering Fear”.) In this article, we are learning about the negative effects of fear and what they have on our bodies.

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