Authors Playing With Our Emotions Essays -- The Fear, Speaking Bittern

Authors Playing With Our Emotions in Robert Frosts The Fear, Chuck Palahniuks communicate Bitterness, Shirley Jacksons The Lottery, and Flannery OConnors A Good Man Is Hard to Find Some authors are precise clever in the way they toy with our emotions. It is not uncommon to find yourself giggling at a story while simultaneously realizing you probably should not be laughing at something that is actually quite gruesome. These mixed emotions are stressful for a reader, and this anxiety is an authors way of creating paranoia. Paranoia is a fear excited in the main by extreme anxiety, and in many cases the anxiety is a result of dissonant emotions that create tension. Robert Frosts The Fear, Chuck Palahniuks Speaking Bitterness, Shirley Jacksons The Lottery, and Flannery OConnors A Good Man Is Hard to Find all utilize dissonant emotions to cause stress for the reader. Frost and Palahniuk focus on the conflict between fear and a lack of reason for fear. Jackson and OConnor fo cus on the illegitimate enterprise between humor and gore, and also the conflict between a need to feel sympathy for a character and a lack of connection to utter character. But there are also the fearless, bold, and strong-minded people. There are people who may not be affected by the tricky ways of these authors. However, they are the exceptions, and just because they do not feel it does not mean they are not supposed to. Despite these exceptional people, authors design their stories specifically to accommodate the tension from dissonant emotions in order to elicit paranoia-related anxiety. It is natural to want to identify the source of an emotion, so when authors create an overwhelming sense of fear without explanation, the reader experie... ... author wants them to be guided. The paranoia aspect is a theme that the authors are trying to utilize as a means to a certain end of their choosing, and that is wherefore they induce such anxiety in their readers. A sense of paranoia is elicited by the tension created by conflicting emotions. Works CitedFrost, Robert. The Fear. Robert Frosts Poems. New York St. Martins, 2002. 107-111. Print.Jackson, Shirley. The Lottery. The falsehood and Its Writer An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. 8th ed. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2003. 586-592. Print.OConnor, Flannery. A Good Man Is Hard to Find. The Story and Its Writer An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. 8th ed. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2003. 1042-1053. Print.Palahniuk, Chuck. Speaking Bitterness. Haunted. Chuck Palahniuk. New York Doubleday, 2005. 258-268. Print.