What if?

Hypothetical author: fear

What if? That is the question we all, at some point in our lives, want the answer to. But more often than not we do not get the answer. What if I did not fear the dark? What if I did not fear the unknown? What if I did not fear anything at all? But fear is something everyone feels at one time or another, either as a young child who fears the monsters in the closet before he/she has to go to bed, or as an adult who fears the responsibilities that arrive with growing up; responsibilities they might not be able to fulfill. But what if fear did not exist? What if fear was not a daily part of people’s lives? Would the young boy or girl stop having fear of his/her parents’ divorce? Would some people stop having fear of whether or not they would eat that day? Or would they just have another emotion instead to substitute fear? and therefore it would make no difference? And would it be so bad if fear stopped existing? Maybe it would, because having fear means there is something to lose, does it not?

Reflection: Playwright

If I had chosen to write the text in an another ‘function’, such as a playwright I would have to produce characters who could physically embody the notion of fear, which would make it less abstract and more tangible for the audience. Also, as a playwright I would have written dialogue about fear between the characters instead of one person’s thoughts about the concept. The notion of fear would also become more subjective in relation to each individual character in the play, who each would have their own diverse definitions of the notion; and therefore it would not be depending on just one hypothetical author hypothesizing about fear without producing any real answers or definitions. This would allow the audience to see fear from different people’s point of view who might experience fear differently, which might enable the audience to find characters they would identify and relate to if they experience fear the same way as the characters.