The Role Of Fear In The Fall Of House Of Usher

The world is nothing but a canvas to the imagination. Your point of view of seeing life is related to your imagination. Imagination is related to your experience. For example, when a sneak tries to attack you, you’ll get afraid of sneaks and so on. Imagination can be affected by happy, sad, terrifying, or even funny moments. You’re imagination can get in every little detail you have to experience in your everyday life. Scientists generally define fear as a negative emotional state triggered by the presence of a stimulus (the snake, for our example). Fear is in the brain because it helped our ancestors cope with life’s challenges, so fear have to exist. Imagination can overcome reasoning when affected by fear.

For example, In "The Fall Of House Of Usher" fear affected both Usher and narrator. Usher had a lot of fear that he reached a point that he can't differ imagination from reality. That means that he could hear voices and see things that he's not sure are real. For the narrator, fear filled him from the atmosphere and the events that happened to him while he’s in Usher's house. The narrator fear led him to imagine that the house of Usher fell, while if you thought realistically the house can't fall because all of the Ushers died. While In “Where Is Here” fear
We learn that there are no monsters hiding under the bed, and not every earthquake brings buildings down. But maybe it’s no coincidence that some of our most creative minds fail to leave these kinds offers behind as adult,” said Karen Thompson Walker on June 2012 at TEDGlobal show. For example, Charles Darwin had panic disorder, which is a chronic mental illness characterised by sudden attacks of fear, accompanied by a variety of physical symptoms such as heart palpitations, dizziness, trembling and intestinal distress. Despite that, Darwin still managed to write On the Origin of Species, and create an evolution