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Abdulaziz Alshatti
Professor: Eric Barnhart
English 113B
October 12, 2015
Fear into Anger and in turn leads to Action
Fear is an emotion that a human experience when a person against a person feels
someone is more powerful and can hurt them. History books are filled with examples that
persistent fear of something can totally reduce that fear factor and turn that emotion into an anger
that eventually leads to some action. In order to survive to the fullest in this world, we have to
make sure that ethical and moral values should contain love; peace and the unethical values such
as fear, anger, depression and action should be moved out.
God had made a person with a complex nature. As such it is defined in the books that
when a person feels like something bad has happened to him, he feels that he need to take
revenge for the past in order to finish in anger. Also, from the psychological view, the fear is a
condition where a person feels that a person against him is oppressing him against his subjugates
rights. At first, the psychological advantage goes towards the physique of the person. If the
person is more powerful than the other person, the emotion against that person turns into fear.
This fear when it goes out of control from the persons consciousness, turns into anger and then
ultimately turn into the action against that person (Osborne, 81).
In order to completely describe the ethical and moral values, it is much important to
describe the effect of these values. For instance, when we start describing about fear, the

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consequences of fears should be described. Fear destroys harmony (Snowden, 14). This can be
said with the devastating effects of fear. Fear leads to breakage of the human bond in the human
society. Psychologically, it had been proved that fear leads to mental tension and this mental
tension leads to an unacceptable state of the mind called Depression (Snowden, 21). Depression
is the state of the mind where a person loses all his contacts from the world and goes into another
world, which destroys himself from his roots of the body. Also, the other times, fear leads to the
state of violence and anger in the state of human body such that that violence can only be
stopped when the person see the blood of the other person.
In the 21st Century, a third face of fear can be defined. This state is called a Spy (Davis,
23). In this modern technology world where if a person even slaps another person, he is
subjected to criminal offences, the birth of detectives came into existence. Detectives are those
people who are being paid off to keep an eye on another person and his lifestyle such that if there
is any threat or fear that exists from that person. This technique is used by the multinational cocorporates or very important persons (VIPs) to look after them by keeping an eye on their so
called enemies from which they tend that they have a problem against them. Also, these people
are ready to invest their huge amounts into their enemies such that they can keep their eyes on
them (Davis, 43). For instance, the United States Army has their bases in Iraq and Saudi Arabia
to look after the potential threat from them and keep an eye on them because they fear that
someone somewhere is planning against them. This turns out to be true sometimes when the
enemy is planning an attack against you, you will have an ample time to go through your
decisions and act accordingly (Davis, 52).
In his essay, we are going to analyze all the three aspects of fear and how the fear gives
birth to unethical ways in the society that leads to difficulty of peace and agreement from the

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society. As we all know that fear, is the state of the mind and the mind cannot handle fear for the
long time, the mind changes fear into anger, depression or action. From the research and from the
history, it can be said that fear had always turned into anger and then into action.
Starting from the story that can be found in 1981 Book by Snowden Rosie Fear into
Anger into Action that discusses about the how women were observed as sex symbol and
treated as inferior counterparts of men. Fear of being lower and underneath the men authority
eventually turn that fright into anger. This anger was the greatest part of anger that made women
to shout and show the people that their fear had turned into anger (Snowden, 53). From the
psychological observations, it is seen that when a person mental state is turned into anger, the
opposite person is either turns into a state of fear or anger. Fear of first person and fear of second
person turns into anger as a whole and anger of first and second person turns to much more anger
as a whole. For example anger of two different countries leads to war between them. Sometimes,
anger of the first person leads to fear in the second when he realizes that opposite person had
become far more superior to him. In this story, the same thing happened and this had anger
sparked actions from women such as asking for gender equality, amendments in law for the
betterment of women, better jobs, respect which slowly become part of our society and modified
the thinking of our men dominated culture (Snowden, 56).
Thorough analysis of Road will reveal another aspect that touches how fear turns into
anger and eventually into action. The novel discusses the impact of that period where all the
wrong doing were happening in the world and the superiors were destroying the world, the father
and his son were the victims of the anger society. The father and son was being the victim of
human hunger (cannibal) and total end of civilization force them to migrate and leave most of
their possessions. Also the novel shows despite fathers ever losing health he still protects his

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son, but they constantly moves to find some safer and a better place to live (McCarthy, 52). This
portion gives us a great aspect of how fear can be succeeded by love. Despite about the health
conditions of father, he takes down his son to a safer place in order for him to have a better life.
This is called the love and respect. Fear and Anger can also be fought with love. If a person loves
another person so much, he can able to give up himself for him and turn the world upside down
for him.
In many of the stories, fear had been called as a mental behavior when a person cannot
think beyond the limits. This makes the person to restrict his mind to a level where further
thinking can only be worse by anger. Sometimes, people think calm and composed but many
times, the thinking goes up to the level of anger (Snowden, 61). This is the psychological state of
mind when the person is in fear; his thinking is being limited as he thinks that every way for him
to get out of the fear is in danger.
This state of mind brings him to a situation where he finds himself helpless and this
helplessness turns into his anger. In the state of anger, a person never thinks that he is doing
right for himself or not. The only thing, he believes that every action taken by him is right.
Therefore, in our modern day society, we especially require a person state of mind during
judgment and trials that whether he is in the calm and composed state. Also, in most of the
government situations, decision which are taken in the state of anger or fear are considered as
worthless. A persons should in controlled state of mind in order to take a decision for him or the
society accordingly.
There is a little hope of God when comes in terms of Fear and Anger. In the article by
Snowden about fear into anger into action, the author had clarified about how fear and anger are

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closely related to each other and about how fear is controlled by the emotion of God (Snowden,
44). When thinking psychology, a child may have a fear from his parent that if he does anything
wrong or anything unacceptable in front of his parents, that leads anger in parents. But the
question here is why? Why only fear is leading to anger? The answer lies in the psychological
aspect of the theory. The brain is treated in such a fashion that fear always triggers out anger
when not controlled.
According to the Psychology Today, the guileless efforts deceit is sufficiently common
in youngsters to make them seem almost innocent Also, from the other point, it can be said that
distressing of emotions such as anger is generally motivated by a request and the guilt inside.
Also, when talking beyond this situation, it can be seen that hurt, fear are being generally agreed
by fear (Psychology Today, 12).
There are also many other relationships to fear, fear leads to anger and sometimes part
way to depression. Depression is the mental state of the person when that fear is so controlled on
the person that he realizes that fear is the ultimate reason for his living and turns into a state
where he considers himself to be responsible for all the state that is happening to him.
Depression also triggers suicidal tendencies.
In the book, the Road the fear of the men that world is coming into the near end had led
them to break all the social rules and made them to be like animals. The men started becoming
cannibal, which in turn resulted in the worst fashion of the world. The world in the book had
stated itself as nearing end which led people to lose all ethical and moral values and become as
the traitors. But still, the hope of love came as the rescue to the child from the father and this led
him to save his child from all the harsh possibilities of the people. In the book, it is also being

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described that even the father was nearing to die due to several injuries; he had managed to save
up his child (McCarthy, 59).
For instance, about the recent situation of the world where Syrian refugees are planning
to move out of Syria due to ongoing tensions in their country, all the other neighboring countries
had opened the gates for the Syrian refugees in order to show the love for the people. This had
bought a peace of mind in the world that Syrian refugees are being taken in the world.
Also, when talking about the series of the Prison Break, the love of the brother to the
brother had shown him the respect and made his brother to take him out of the prison under any
circumstances when the world had turned against the man due to his actions of murder to the
brother of the vice president. The brother had shown him the love which the elder brother had
imparted on him when he was young. Form these series, it can be seen that ultimately it is the
Love that keeps together and refrain us from having these psychological behaviors called fear
and action.
Love is Above All. This is not only discussed in social books, but also in religious
books. In the bible, Jesus had asked all the people to show love to each other in order to maintain
peace and harmony in the world. Respect to the people is only shown by the love. Love is the
only thing in the people that is making the people bonded and live for each other. Someone had
rightly said Make people remember when you Die! this means that love should be spread in
such a way that people should always remember you for your goodness.

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Works Cited

Davis, Praxton. The World We live in: The Novel of Eric Ambler. (Feb 1971).
McCarthy, Cormac The Road. New York: Vintage International, 2006. Print.
Osborne, John Look Forward in Fear- Twentieth Century Literacy Criticism. British
Drama. 1982.
Snowden, Rosie Fear into Anger into Action (July 1981).