Types of fear (Arrow and Tell-Tale-Heart

“Pain isn’t what breaks us down. Its fear. Fear of that pain. Of what pain brings. Of what comes next.”_Arrow Volume 3 issue 2

Some of you may know exactly what this quote is saying, while others have no idea what its talking about. If you understand what the its saying, its means that when you experience fear, your scared of what that fear may bring. (pain). Although you don’t feel pain when your scared. Your scared of pain. Your scared because you might feel pain. However this is not how some other people experience pain for example, other people might try to ignore them while others may try to overcome them. An example of people trying to ignore pain is from a short story called “The Tell Tale Heart”. “His fears have been ever growing. He had been trying to fancy them causeless but could not. He had been saying to himself-it is nothing but the wind in the chimney-it is only a mouse crossing the floor-it is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp.” People experience fear in different ways. Some are mentioned in Arrow and The Tell Tale heart.

When you were young, you may have been scared of monster. If you were,then try to remember, were you scared of. What that monster might do to you? Did you try to convince yourself its just the wind? Did you run to your mom? Did you stay paralyzed with fear and frozen at the spot? Or did you try to conquer that fear? Whichever it was, there are other people who agree with you, while others have a different way of handling fear. Of course some people might react differently when in different situations. Each situation might have its own reaction when in fear.The comic book Arrow (which is based of a TV series where you may have heard the Arrow quote from) talks about one type of fear while Tell Tale Heart talks about another.

Remember I may not have mentioned every reaction you may have towards fear. They’re are many others. Other types of fear that other people experience. While some think fear is also pain others try to convince themselves that their is no pain. That everything will be OK. Even when it is not.