Role Of Courage In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein '

Like the protagonist in a novel, we are all affected by courage - directly or otherwise. In my own life, bouts of courage have both greatly helped and harmed me. There was one triumph which I remember involving myself and the monsters under my bed. From a young age my older siblings instilled a deep fear for those terrible creatures which had chosen to reside beneath my mattress. I became so fearful I refused to step foot on the floor at any point between dusk and dawn - I came to have a very strong bladder in this way. Come my 9th birthday I still had yet to get up in the middle of the night; I decided enough was enough! I had made up my mind, and I was going to defeat this bogeyman. My first thought was that these monsters were fictional characters, created deep within the recesses of my subconscious and projected into reality by my overzealous imagination (I read well above my level and so had quite the lexicon at a rather young age). …show more content…
But how was I going to do this? I hadn’t the slightest idea - until I was watching a TV show (for the life of me I can’t remember which one) in which a child overcomes his fear of the dark by locking himself in a shed for three nights. Three nights, I thought, was a bit excessive, but the solution lay in that plan. That night, I gathered up my blankets, dusted the floor, and made a cozy little cranny between the laminate flooring and my bedboards. nightfall came and (after calling me a colorful barrage of synonyms for lunatic) my sister turned out the lights and bid me good night. As I lay there in the darkness, surrounded by stuffies, blankets, and throw pillows galore, I felt my pulse quicken. My brow started sweating. My breathing became stuttered and

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