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We fear the unknown
Title: We fear the unknown
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 508 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
We fear the unknown
A theme that is very much present in the first chapters of Silas Marner is that of the fact that we fear when we don’t understand. What we can’t comprehend is automatically labeled as evil that is the source of what first happens to Silas.
Whenever Silas goes into trance or a fix, he can’t respond to anything that’s around him, in it’s essence, he becomes totally catatonic for some …showed first 75 words of 508 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 508 total…another example on how we make up explanations that cause fear when we don’t understand a process, illness or act.
He is an outcast because of an illness not because of his acts. He is an outcast because people fear what they can’t understand. This is still pretty common in our times. Prejudice is based on not understanding a trait that someone possesses and it’s up to us to make a change.
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