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An 8 page paper which examines if physical threats are different from social, emotional, or psychological threats, whether or not threats are always external, if internal threats are without physical form, and what threats create socially or psychologically in the respective texts. No additional sources are used.
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They can be internal as well as external. When Western civilization was in its infancy, territorial threats were everywhere, and warriors were needed to defend property from outside
invasion. There was during this time period a shared sense of paranoia because an unforeseen threat could come out of nowhere. People lived in a constant fear that
their way of life would be threatened by something or someone. Three classic works of literature - the anonymously written folktale Beowulf, Socrates Apology, and Augustines Confessions - eloquently
capture this vulnerability while considering whether or not physical threats are different from social or psychological threats. In these stories, threats usually appear to be external. In Beowulf, King
Hrothgar, ruler of the Danes, keeps the protagonist on retainer to protect his kingdom and his subjects. Beowulf quickly establishes a reputation as a warrior extraordinaire; someone who is
unafraid to meet a physical threat head on and fight to the death. Beowulf is symbolic of the old-world customs that characterized primitive medieval society. In Platos Apology,
which describes Socrates incarceration for violating public morality, the threat comes from Socrates neighbors who fear his unorthodox practice of philosophy is adversely influencing the minds of young boys.
Augustines autobiographical Confessions ponders the external social threats of sexual debauchery, which even consumed this major spiritual force of the Roman Catholic church, who wrote in Book II, Chapter 1:
"I wish now to review in memory my past wickedness and the carnal corruptions of my soul --not because I still love them, but that I may love thee, O
my God. For love of thy love I do this, recalling in the bitterness of self-examination my wicked ways, that thou mayest grow sweet to me, thou sweetness without
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