![]() ![]() This increase in hormones in a way blocks the mind from properly responding and only allowing autonomic physical responses. The sole ability to respond is placed within physical grasp, with increase in different hormones such as adrenaline. Fear isn’t only a physical response, it’s just as emotional. ![]() She had many opportunities to run and seek shelter, to find protection, or even to simply wait him out, and yet she’s not even able to even process the situation to allow her body to respond properly, and in so made the decision to allow Arnold to take her with him without a fight. No matter if she runs, if she tries to physically overtakes him, or if she hides, her body is unable to complete a solid plan of escape, which ultimately would lead to her tragic fate. Of the many thoughts running through her head, she is unable to make rational decisions and remove herself from the situation. Her response was to immediately freeze, and her body was unable to contemplate her next decision, as the worst imaginable was truly inevitable. ![]() “Something roared in her ear, a tiny roaring, and she was so sick with fear that she could do nothing but listen to it.” She’s experiencing a high level of fear, placing her in the situation of fight-flight-or-freeze. In Joyce Oates’ short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” she exemplifies fear as the drive among making decisions. ![]()
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