Experience: Courage

The feeling of being genuinely afraid of something and simultaneously bold enough to face it. Bravery.

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The Man I Never Met
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: I want to propose a new narrative technology term
Hannah looks at the text messages as they roll in from Davey, trying to fight the smile on her face, I found myself saying I literally did that twenty minutes ago. "He’s online and replying. 'Is it weird I’m messaging you again? After I sent it, I thought this might come across as weird.' It takes me a moment to think and I reply honestly, 'This is kind of weird. But good weird. Yeah, that’s what I was hoping for. How’s your day going?'"
Contributed by: mbielawski
June 4, 2025
Call the Midwife
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: Human God Voice
The fear of death during chilbirth combined with Vanessa Redgrave's wise retrospective narration (multiple times in almost every episode)
Contributed by: mi
January 9, 2025
Grey's Anatomy
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: Human God Voice
the fear (alleviated by a human-understanding narrator) is that we're all doomed to end as strangers inhabiting the lives of others
Contributed by: angusif
November 15, 2024
A Song of Ice and Fire
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: Human God Voice
the fear (alleviated by a human-understanding narrator) is of life being empty of purpose
Contributed by: angusif
November 15, 2024
Gladiator
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: Human God Voice
objective view of the camera lens combined with a human-focused soundtrack "rich with oxytocin-releasing musical effects" (Fletcher 42)
Contributed by: angusif
November 15, 2024
Peyton Place
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: Human God Voice
objective view of the camera lens combined with a human-focused soundtrack "rich with oxytocin-releasing musical effects" (Fletcher 42)
Contributed by: angusif
November 15, 2024
A Tale of Two Cities
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: Human God Voice
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
Contributed by: angusif
November 15, 2024
Beloved
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: Epic Simile
"like a child's house, the house of a very tall child"
Contributed by: angusif
November 15, 2024
The Iliad
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: Epic Simile
"Like a Lion is glad to find the carcass of a wild deer or goat/When he is hungry, and devours it greedily/Even as eager hunters and their quick dogs rush upon him,/So was Menelaus glad to see Alexander"
Contributed by: angusif
November 15, 2024
The Iliad
Experience: Courage
Narrative Technology: Human God Voice
"Sing, goddess, of the anger, the anger of Achilles born of Peleus,/the anger all-a-damaging that brought countless pains to men,/sending many stout souls to Hades before their time/making heroes into food for dogs and vultures."
Contributed by: angusif
November 15, 2024