Supernatural_In_American_Fiction_And_Soceity

Supernatural In American Fiction And Soceity “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”1 Therefore, it makes sense that if mortals cannot bear the darkness, they [should not] not go there. If man dislikes “black night and yawning chasms,”2 then should he not even consider them' Shouldn’t man seek out the sunshine, instead' The remedy is very simple: Avoid the darkness and seek the light. But, no. Mankind would never submit to this. He will immediately turn to the darkness. Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 “No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis” can overcome “the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.”4 Why' Children will always be afraid of the dark and men will always shudder at what they do not understand, yet everyone will continue to seek it.5 Perhaps it is because society, particularly American society because of its history, believes the final horrors are ghosts and demons, when truly it is the hidden aspects of its own soul.6 As reflected by its literature, American society has always held supernatural, because, man, always, society, american, about, strange, story, own, one, town, out, forest, witch, unknown, two, superstitions, speaks, puritan, mysterious, makes, large, just, henry, ghost, even, devil, being, been, back, another, americans, wrote