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Some of these fears make Macbeth act in a crazy manner, literally. After he finds out about Fleance not being killed, he sees Banquo’s ghost appear out of nowhere. He begins talking to the ghost, and his guests think he has gone out of his mind because they

can’t see the ghost. The decisions one makes might not incorporate fear, but these major phobias will hold anybody from accomplishing their goals because they are too great to just be avoided. One must conquer these dominant fears in order to procure what they desire. This shows how fear will make people crazy, if there are too many of them, and also make one do things which were never in mind.

The hopes of Macbeth are heightened when he sends out to kill Macduff’s family, another arch-nemesis. He had been fearing Macduff because he knew Macduff was one of the persons that could impede his progress of total control of Scotland. When

Macduff found out about his family, he became rampageous. His fears were all put aside because he knew he had to do something to Macbeth about his family. Macduff showed he was fearless because he didn’t care who the person that killed his family was, he just went after him as if he were nobody. Not too many people would think of attacking a king before this situation.

Macbeth boasts that he does not fear the invaders because of the assurances of the apparitions of the witches. It is ironic because their “supernatural powers seem certain to help him though in fact they bring him to his doom” (Boyce, 386). Once Macbeth is informed of the truth behind Macduff, he is in shock, and his fears come into play once again. He doesn’t believe it, but he had to fight until his death came in order find out. The fear Macbeth possessed at this instance was the type that makes people do something

they don’t really want, or want to get something over with once and for all. It is showed when he goes off to fight Macduff even though he might get killed, he wants to find out if there is truth behind what Macduff has said.

The fear of failing Macbeth had during his life made him act instantaneously. The other characters in The Tragedy of Macbeth, also retained the same sort of fear that makes people do something they feared at first, but then realized it wasn’t going to help if they just stood around and do nothing; consequently, they decided to act and see what develops from the situation. If it turns out to be either a positive or a negative, there was at least the mentality to do something.

After reading the other novel and play, the book with the most fear was Cry, the Beloved Country, where the protagonist, Stephen Kumalo, goes to look for his family in a completely different environment from where his family originated. Stephen’s fear of not having his family by his side makes him act quickly, so he can find his missing family. He doesn’t really care what is out there waiting for him in the foreign setting, as long as he gets his family back. Stephen never dreamed of leaving his small village.

Even though there is crime, violence, and hate where Stephen is going, he puts all that aside and concentrates on what his goal is. This reveals how the fear for someone’s health and lives can make people do something they’ve never done before because the love inside for a person is too strong to ignore; therefore, it makes people act on their instincts and beliefs.

Stephen is not the only person who has fear imbedded in him, but all the people who live in the small village of Ndotsheni, Stephen’s home, also carry this fear. Their fear is of being trapped in the village without anything to eat, since the farmlands are not

producing what they have before; therefore, they seek another place that will provide the necessary materials to live happily. The place most people find is Johannesburg, which is

a metropolis containing everything (jobs, crime, violence, money, corruption, etc.). Unfortunately for the people of the small villages, they only see the good things. When they arrive, they finally notice the other side of these colossal cities, and their fear of not achieving anything grows once again. This fear makes them do actions that are inappropriate to anybody in the world. Once again, fear makes people do things that they are unsure of, and just want something to happen for them.

Another example of fear in this book is one of the actions taken by Absalom Kumalo, son of Stephen. The action taken by this young man is one that shouldn’t be committed by anybody; he unfortunately killed a man. Absalom tells his father when they meet for the first time in many years, “I told them I was frightened when the white man came. So I shot him. I did not mean to kill him” (Paton, 98). This action was

brought on by the fear implanted in him. His fear made him do something he didn’t really want to do, which was to shoot the revolver in his hands. The fear that makes you do something will be considered wrong depending on the result of the situation. In Absalom’s case, it will be considered wrong because the outcome was the death of a person.

One of the major fears pointed out by the author is the “fear of bondage and the bondage of fear” (Paton, 277). The author is saying that the people are scared of being trapped for so long, but yet when they receive their freedom, they will not know what to do because they are scared of what could happen if they do anything at all. This type of fear is the one that holds people back from doing things they really want. If all people would have this fear, the world would be an extremely dull place to live

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