English Literature - Prose and Drama

English Literature
English Literature - Prose and Drama

"All you have to fear is fear itself". The above statement by Franklin D. Roosevelt is alluded in which of the following chapter ?


Options:

  1. Deep Water
  2. We are not Afraid to Die If We Can All Be Together
  3. The Adventure
  4. The Portrait of a Lady

Right Answer: Deep Water

William Douglas begins his autobiographical essay ‘Deep Water’ by recalling his terror of water and by quoting Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous line that all we have to fear is fear itself. The allusion frames the whole essay, because Douglas is describing how a near-drowning at the Y.M.C.A. pool left him with a paralysing phobia and how he later conquered it with the help of an instructor and sheer determination. The chapter is thus a study in the psychology of fear, and Roosevelt’s words supply its guiding idea.

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