Fear is a negative emotion that all animals have. In Montaigne’s essay, he exposes the fear of human nature and how frail when people dealing with fear. Montaigne addresses that fear is a strange emotion and he barely knows about it. Moreover, people tend to get lost and do silly things when confronted with fear. For example, soldiers are scared by the fear they imagine about wars rather than the enemies or the war itself and therefore run into the wrong direction. When fear dominates, judgment and courage vanish. The power of fear surpasses any other emotions. However, indeed, the real fear people fear of comes from themselves.
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Hello Sonia, I love your post. I agree with you that the real fear comes from themselves. I think fear comes from our inner self. For example, PTSD could play a big role in the role of fear. Everyone has a fear of something.
I believe by emphasizing on the topic of fear, he tries to highlight the good and bad of human imagination. I agree with you that fear is a negative emotion that all animals have because he mentioned himself as an example.
Hi, I agree with you that the real fear comes from people themselves. In Montaigne’s Essays, Montaigne makes connection between fear and imagination. People who can easily influence by their imagination can be prone to fear. For example, a soldier hears alarm; with good imagination, the alarm brings the fear to this soldier by giving him the image of enemies from his mind, not from reality.